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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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2013

But in Los Angeles, Santa Monica is akin to SoMa in San Francisco, Cambridge in the Boston area or Flatiron / Union Square in NYC. We have invested in building an associate program that seeks to work operationally with our portfolio companies rather than looking to source new deals. We love all of LA and fund all regions.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 6, 2022

20:21] Where can people find out more about your programs and your book? And so that book, the book is designed to give entrepreneurs really practical and concrete advice on how to avoid all the pitfalls of doing a startup and act and come out on top. John Jantsch (14:46): So Steve, you, you're still in San.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2019

Indeed I advised against loyalty and customer retention programs, but encourage existing customers to buy more. Most companies spend an inordinate amount of time designing products or services. New customers are expensive to acquire, and typically produce less revenue than would current, satisfied customers. Customers Won’t Wait.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2016

I’ve always been intrigued by the concepts of design thinking and customer empathy and how those concepts might intersect with local government. The first was one of our teams that was evaluating the need for an online business license application program. The team used Lean Startup principles to evaluate the issue. Absolutely.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 4, 2010

To his credit are Extreme Programming , jUnit, patterns, TDD , the list goes on. To his credit are Extreme Programming , jUnit, patterns, TDD , the list goes on. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Our mystery keynote is now revealed and I couldnt be more excited. Learning is better than optimization (the local ma.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 5, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Email Design Best Practices For Small Businesses and Startups – [link]. Email Design Best Practices For Small Businesses and Startups – [link].

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 25, 2011

The number of Lean Startup meetup groups has crossed 100, spreading out from traditional startup hubs like San Francisco and New York to a wide variety of places. Design + Lean Startup = Lean UX. Former Adaptive Path CEO Janice Fraser will present a series of case studies on how to use Lean Startup to design amazing products.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 22, 2020

"We knew that if we wanted immediate action, the only way to do that was with private money," Lenore Estrada explained to me as we talked about why she founded SF New Deal in the days after being forced to lay off most of the staff at her San Francisco bakery, Three Babes Bakeshop. I'm the founder and executive director of SF New Deal.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Paul, San Francisco, LA, San Diego, Seattle, Chicago, Boston, and Washington, DC. TaskRabbit is available in San Francisco, New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Chicago and Miami. Once a ride is complete, passengers are prompted to donate seamlessly through the app. Currently available in Dallas, Indianapolis, St.

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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. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. This basic pattern is useful in all aspects of product development.

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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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Transformify

MARCH 23, 2020

Earthquakes and talent scarcity in tech hubs like San Francisco, London, New York, Tel Aviv, Berlin, Paris and so on could disrupt the business of many tech companies. At the same time, talented software engineers, designers, digital marketing experts, product managers, etc.

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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. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, March 25, 2010 Speed up or slow down? for Harvard Business Revie.

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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. Similar results apply in product management, design, testing, and even operations. Take the example of a design team prepping mock-ups for their development team. I dont think so.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). Im one of those people whos been programming since they can remember. I got my start programming on an old IBM XT; it was thanks to MUDs that I first discovered the internet. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

I also owe a great debt to Kent Beck, whose Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change was my first introduction to this kind of thinking. (So April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. I am heavily indebted to earlier theorists, and highly recommend the books Lean Thinking and Lean Software Development. for Harvard Business Revie.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Learning is better than optimization (the local ma.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

And, as one entrepreneur put it to me, "we understood that a big part of our responsibility in the program was to make sure the mentors have a good experience, by taking their advice to heart and giving them a feeling of being part of our evolution as a company." Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and what.

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David Cohen

MAY 17, 2013

This will be the second year for the event, an intense three-day program designed to teach and mentor Veterans and Service Members about entrepreneurship and help them build and develop innovative technology companies. Fotopigeon and VocalTap are currently at the NewMe Accelerator in San Francisco.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 10, 2012

That may seem intimidating, but programming is not some monumental skill that only specially gifted people can learn. The Developer Bootcamp is designed to help anyone get started coding - and they might even get a job at a startup or tech heavyweight out of it as well. The program lasts 10 weeks and has tuition of $12,000.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 29, 2010

Weve got a new scholarship program up and running. Each part of the program is organized around one phase of the Build-Measure-Learn feedback loop and begins with a keynote address from a heavy hitter: Steve Blank on Customer Development, Randy Komisar on "Getting to Plan B" and - a third person, not-yet-announced-but-extremely-cool-trust-me.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

For Neopets, its simply a side-effect of their game-like product design. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2019

Brian Spears , Cofounder and CEO, spoke about his San Francisco-based company. Last July, we met a young pig named Jessie at a farm in Marin, just north of San Francisco. Our company has been designed from the beginning on a platform of automation hardware and data science. What is your competitive advantage?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 2, 2010

Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Learning is better than optimization (the local ma. for Harvard Business Revie.

Technical Review 132

Technical Review San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 132

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

The Lean Startup: a Disciplined Approach to Imagining, Designing, and Building New Products.: Expo San Francisco 2009 The current macroeconomic climate presents unparalleled opportunities for those that can thrive with constrained resources. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. for Harvard Business Revie.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 2, 2008

Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Learning is better than optimization (the local ma. for Harvard Business Revie.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2010

I had really debated about whether there was any value in spending the time and money to fly to San Francisco when there was a perfectly serviceable simulcast going on in Cleveland. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. In the meantime his two books, The Monk and the Riddle and Getting to Plan B are both a must-read.

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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. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. It is incumbent upon you to listen. It is incumbent upon you to listen. Learning is better than optimization (the local ma.

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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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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2010

Rich also organized the first Lean Startup Meetup right here in San Francisco. Rich also organized the first Lean Startup Meetup right here in San Francisco. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. The SF Meetup now has over five hundred members, and has spawned many other meetup events. for Harvard Business Revie.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

The new design improved on the old one in several ways, but these improvements didnt translate all the way through the funnel. Usually, I think that means youve lost some good aspect of the old design. The designers might be telling you that the new design looks much better than the old one, and thats probably true.

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San Francisco Lean Technical Review Continuous Deployment 166

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

They take things like unit testing, design documents and code reviews more seriously than any other company Ive even heard about. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile : "Google is an exceptionally disciplined company, from a software-engineering perspective. for Harvard Business Revie.

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Agile San Francisco Software Review Continuous Deployment 76

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Learning is better than optimization (the local ma. for Harvard Business Revie.

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San Francisco Continuous Deployment Agile Lean 94

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2010

Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Learning is better than optimization (the local ma. for Harvard Business Revie.

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San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment SEC 158

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Learning is better than optimization (the local ma. for Harvard Business Revie.

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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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