Design, Lean, Metrics and Workshop

A full day of Lean Startup Workshops on December 4, 2012

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

This post was co-written by Eric Ries and Sarah Milstein, co-hosts of The Lean Startup Conference. This year, for the first time, we've added a day of workshops and site visits to The Lean Startup Conference. The Lean Entrepreneur: Embrace the Unknown to Go Big with Patrick Vlaskovits and Brant Cooper.

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Your Guide to the Complete Lean Startup Conference Program

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference Eleven months in the making, the full schedule for The Lean Startup Conference is at last complete, and we can’t wait to show you around! Talk descriptions, speakers, workshops, evening events, Ignite, Office Hours…but we’re getting a little ahead of ourselves.

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See More than 120 Speakers and Mentors at The Lean Startup Conference

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference The Lean Startup Conference is next week--and now that we can step back and see all the speakers and mentors, we have to say: Wow. Blair Beverly from Google ’s AdSense group will describe a stealthy method for convincing colleagues to get on board with Lean Startup.

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We’re Programming Around Your Needs: Highlights of Lean Startup Week 2017

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Guest post by Jennifer Maerz, Program Chair of Lean Startup Co. For eight years, our flagship conference has focused on sharing stories and lessons of putting Lean Startup’s entrepreneurial methodology into practice. Lean Startup Week (Oct. 31 ( limited to the first 200 Gold Passholders.) Sign up for free here.

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The Future of Government: Hayward & the Lean Startup

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Guest post by Jennifer Maerz, contributing editor of Lean Startup Co. It’s been exciting to watch the Lean Startup movement grow from a practice utilized in the tech world to one implemented in a wide variety of sectors ranging from enterprise to education, religious organizations, nonprofits, and government groups.

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Why Companies and Government Do “Innovation Theater” Instead of Actual Innovation

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 15, 2019

These processes reduce risk to an overall organization, but each layer of process reduces the ability to be agile and lean and – most importantly – responsive to new opportunities and threats. Metrics are used to manage process rather than creation of new capabilities, outcomes and speed to deployment.

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Why vanity metrics are dangerous

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 23, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, December 23, 2009 Why vanity metrics are dangerous In a previous post, I defined two kinds of metrics: vanity metrics and actionable metrics. In this post, Id like to talk about the perils of vanity metrics. My personal favorite vanity metrics is "hits."

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 8, 2008 The lean startup Ive been thinking for some time about a term that could encapsulate trends that are changing the startup landscape. After some trial and error, Ive settled on the Lean Startup. I like the term because of two connotations: Lean in the sense of low-burn.

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The Lean Startup Workshop - now an O'Reilly Master Class

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, May 14, 2009 The Lean Startup Workshop - now an OReilly Master Class My rate of posting has been much lower lately, and this is mostly due to preparations for the upcoming Lean Startup Workshop on May 29. Others have asked about sponsorship opportunities at the workshop.

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How to Get Picked as a Speaker for The Lean Startup Conference

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 29, 2013

This post was written by Sarah Milstein, co-host of The Lean Startup Conference. We’re looking for speakers for the 2013 Lean Startup Conference. If you’re a Lean Startup veteran, feel free to skim the beginning, as this is mostly stuff you already know. Last week, we announced that our short application form was live.

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Amazing lean startup resources

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, January 12, 2010 Amazing lean startup resources A year ago, there was no lean startup movement. I continue to believe that the explosion of interest in the lean startup has very little to do with me. If you are attempting to apply lean startup ideas in your own business - you are not alone.

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Hands-on Lessons for Advanced Topics in Entrepreneurship

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for T he Lean Startup Conference. We’ve posted the full program for The Lean Startup Conference , and it includes more than three days of events for Gold pass holders and six days of events for VIP pass holders. On the evening of December 8, Ignite Lean Startup kicks off the conference.

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Lessons Learned: Lean hiring tips

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 19, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 19, 2009 Lean hiring tips In preparing for the strategy series panel this week, I have been doing some thinking about costs. Fundamentally, lean startups do more with less, because they systematically find and eliminate waste that slows down value creation. Another terrific post, Eric.

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Lessons Learned: Principles of Lean Startups, presentation for.

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, November 4, 2008 Principles of Lean Startups, presentation for Maples Investments Image via Wikipedia Steve Blank and I had the opportunity to create a presentation about lean startups for Maples Investments. My path to lean startups began with Kent Beck and extreme programming.

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Lean Startup fbFund slides and video

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, July 6, 2009 Lean Startup fbFund slides and video As a follow-up to my previous post on my talk for fbFund at Facebook , there was enough interest in watching video of the talk that I have finally uploaded it using Apples MobileMe. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May.

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Is This Ex-Googler’s Pre-Product Approach the Fast Track to Product-Market Fit?

View from Seed

MARCH 19, 2015

He’s dubbed the approach “ pretotyping ,” and it shares many of the same principles as both its similar-sounding (if later-stage) cousin, prototyping, as well as the more well-known lean startup movement. NVV: Lots of entrepreneurs reading this will think about the lean startup movement when they hear about pretotyping.

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Techstars brings The Lean Startup to Boulder

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 30, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, July 30, 2009 Techstars brings The Lean Startup to Boulder Im very excited to announce a pair of events that will kick off a very busy fall speaking tour. The event will include a talk from Eric on The Lean Startup over dinner, followed by moderated table discussion and then final Q&A with Eric.

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Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and what's changed since.

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, August 8, 2009 Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and whats changed since then) My recent article on technical debt and its positive uses generated a fair bit of controversy. The argument itself got me thinking a lot about design and its role in building products.

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Join the Lean Startup discussion at Web 2.0 Expo for free

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 17, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, March 17, 2009 Join the Lean Startup discussion at Web 2.0 Expo for free Im honored to announce that my Lean Startup session at the Web 2.0 Everyone else can register to come to both sessions for free, including the Lean Startup talk in the main conference. What does this mean for you?

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Massacre at IBM

Steve Blank

AUGUST 3, 2012

Long before there was the Lean Startup, Business Model Canvas or Customer Development there was a guy in Santa Barbara California who had already figured it out. The supplier’s CEO directed his business unit general managers to take a SyncDev workshop. How dare you,” the fab manager said. “We He blocked new business for two years.

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The Lean Startup at Agile Vancouver April 21st

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 25, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, March 25, 2009 The Lean Startup at Agile Vancouver April 21st A surprising number of respondents in the latest Lessons Learned survey hail from one of the flourishing startup hubs in Canada. This workshop brings together leading thinkers from Lean Production and Lean software.

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The lean startup @ Web 2.0 Expo (and a call for help)

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, February 9, 2009 The lean startup @ Web 2.0 Expo to explain the lean startup concept to a larger audience. The Lean Startup: a Disciplined Approach to Imagining, Designing, and Building New Products.: The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May.

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Lean Startup fbFund wrap-up

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 3, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, July 3, 2009 Lean Startup fbFund wrap-up Last week I had a real blast meeting with the companies at the fbFund incubator at Palo Alto. The Lean Startup fbFund Edition View more documents from Eric Ries. As usual, Id like to post the slides and then offer some additional commentary.

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Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Master of 500 Hats: Startup Metrics for Pirates (SeedCamp 2008, London) This presentation should be required reading for anyone creating a startup with an online service component. He also has a discussion of how your choice of business model determines which of these metric areas you want to focus on. Choose one.

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Speed up or slow down? (for Harvard Business Review)

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 25, 2010

for Harvard Business Review) Over at Harvard Business Review, Ive been building up a series designed to introduce the Lean Startup methodology to a business-focused audience. Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable Beware of Vanity Metrics For Startups, How Much Process Is Too Much? Expo SF (May. for Harvard Business Revie.

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Austin: the Lean Startup tour continues

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 27, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, May 27, 2009 Austin: the Lean Startup tour continues Next week I head to Austin, TX for my first visit ever. The Lean Startup is a practical approach for creating and managing a new breed of company that excels in low-cost experimentation, rapid iteration, and true customer insight.

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Lessons Learned: The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 15, 2008 The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time Split-testing is a core lean startup discipline, and its one of those rare topics that comes up just as often in a technical context as in a business-oriented one when Im talking to startups.

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Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond"

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 4, 2010

blog comments powered by Disqus Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe via email Blog Archive ▼ 2010 (48) ► October (3) Case Study: Rapid iteration with hardware The Lean Startup Bundle Stop lying on stage ► September (4) Good enough never is (or is it?) The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May.

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Refactoring for TDD and interaction design

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 30, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, August 30, 2008 Refactoring for TDD and interaction design In TDD , we follow a rhythm of “test-code-refactor.&# The same process works in Interaction Design. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science?

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Lean Startup Conference Comes to New York & London

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 3, 2017

Guest post by Melissa Moore & Jennifer Maerz of Lean Startup Co. Over the last eight years, we’ve learned that our Lean Startup community members are constantly searching for better ways to build and scale products. senior faculty member Jonathan Bertfield The importance of creating islands of freedom, with Lean Startup Co.

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The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business Review)

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 2, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, June 2, 2010 The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business Review) I continue my series for Harvard Business Review with the Lean Startup technique called Five Whys. Techniques from lean manufacturing can be part of a startups innovation culture. Speed up or slow down? Speed up or slow down?

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The Lean Startup Tokyo edition

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, June 9, 2009 The Lean Startup Tokyo edition I had a blast speaking at Startonomics Tokyo , which was organized to foster ties between the startup cultures in Japan and Silicon Valley. Since I learned much of what I know about lean from studying Toyota, you can imagine how great a shock this was.

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Building a new startup hub

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

I did my best to capture video and audio; a YouTube playlist and Slideshare slidecast are below: Slides (with audio): 2009 08 19 The Lean Startup TechStars Edition View more presentations from Eric Ries. My biggest thanks goes to the people who generously sponsored scholarships for others to attend the dinner and workshop, Thank you so much!

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Lessons Learned: The product manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2008

These specs are handed to a designer, who builds layouts and mockups of all the salient points. Then the designs are handed to a team of programmers with various specialties. The programmers keep asking for more say in the designs and direction that they work on. First, he writes it nice and clear.

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Lessons Learned: Work in small batches

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, February 20, 2009 Work in small batches Software should be designed, written, and deployed in small batches. I owe it originally to lean manufacturing books like Lean Thinking and Toyota Production System. Similar results apply in product management, design, testing, and even operations.

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A New Approach to The Lean Startup Conference

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 21, 2014

Post by Lean Startup Conference co-hosts Sarah Milstein & Eric Ries We’re excited to announce this year’s Lean Startup Conference , December 8 – 12 in San Francisco. This year, we’re defining the conference program as a series of hard questions entrepreneurs commonly face, and we’ll address them in our talks and workshops.

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Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2010

kaChing has been very active in the Lean Startup movement. With case studies like this, we aim to illustrate specific Lean Startup techniques through the stories of current practitioners. kaChing has been very active in the Lean Startup movement. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May.

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Paul Graham on fundraising

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 2, 2008

0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Subscribe via email Blog Archive ► 2010 (48) ► October (3) Case Study: Rapid iteration with hardware The Lean Startup Bundle Stop lying on stage ► September (4) Good enough never is (or is it?) The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 5, 2010

While maintaining persistence and willpower is certainly good advice, Customer Development methodologies are designed to give you data and feedback you may not want to hear. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. It is incumbent upon you to listen. This is important, since every situation is different. Expo SF (May.

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

If youre trying to design an architecture to maximize agility, how can that work if some people are working in TDD and others not? Platform selection and technical design - if your business strategy is to create a low-burn, highly iterative lean startup, youd better be using foundational tools that make that easy rather than hard.

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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) Eventually, I came to summarize these themes with the phrase " the lean startup." Lean is one of the major trends shaping our world, and its impact goes beyond just optimizing our supply chains.

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Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Harvard Business.

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 15, 2010

Behind this analysis is a spreadsheet model, complete with detailed metrics for a set of customer behaviors that show just how valuable the new product will be. They are on-schedule and on-budget, but their gross metrics are way off. They are on-schedule and on-budget, but their gross metrics are way off. Expo SF (May.

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Lean Startup Conference 2019, Oct. 23-25: Announcing Program and Speakers

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 19, 2019

We’ve spent a lot of time this past year running Lean Startup tests on our annual flagship conference to really nail down what you’re most interested in. We’ll gather at the Palace of Fine Arts for workshops, talks, case studies, networking, and will host an amazing lineup of participants from diverse backgrounds and industries.

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

Like a financial debt, the technical debt incurs interest payments, which come in the form of the extra effort that we have to do in future development because of the quick and dirty design choice. We can choose to continue paying the interest, or we can pay down the principal by refactoring the quick and dirty design into the better design.

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A full day of Lean Startup Workshops on December 4, 2012

Your Guide to the Complete Lean Startup Conference Program

Trending Sources

See More than 120 Speakers and Mentors at The Lean Startup Conference

We’re Programming Around Your Needs: Highlights of Lean Startup Week 2017

The Future of Government: Hayward & the Lean Startup

Why Companies and Government Do “Innovation Theater” Instead of Actual Innovation

Why vanity metrics are dangerous

Lessons Learned: The lean startup

The Lean Startup Workshop - now an O'Reilly Master Class

How to Get Picked as a Speaker for The Lean Startup Conference

Amazing lean startup resources

Hands-on Lessons for Advanced Topics in Entrepreneurship

Lessons Learned: Lean hiring tips

Lessons Learned: Principles of Lean Startups, presentation for.

Lean Startup fbFund slides and video

Is This Ex-Googler’s Pre-Product Approach the Fast Track to Product-Market Fit?

Techstars brings The Lean Startup to Boulder

Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and what's changed since.

Join the Lean Startup discussion at Web 2.0 Expo for free

Massacre at IBM

The Lean Startup at Agile Vancouver April 21st

The lean startup @ Web 2.0 Expo (and a call for help)

Lean Startup fbFund wrap-up

Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Speed up or slow down? (for Harvard Business Review)

Austin: the Lean Startup tour continues

Lessons Learned: The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time

Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond"

Refactoring for TDD and interaction design

Lean Startup Conference Comes to New York & London

The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business Review)

The Lean Startup Tokyo edition

Building a new startup hub

Lessons Learned: The product manager's lament

Lessons Learned: Work in small batches

A New Approach to The Lean Startup Conference

Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot

Paul Graham on fundraising

The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development

Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Lessons Learned: About the author

Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Harvard Business.

Lean Startup Conference 2019, Oct. 23-25: Announcing Program and Speakers

Embrace technical debt

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