Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, November 8, 2008 What is customer development? Steve Blank has devoted many years now to trying to answer that question, with a theory he calls Customer Development. You can learn about customer development, and quite a bit more, in Steves book The Four Steps to the Epiphany.

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View from Seed

MARCH 19, 2015

Our product, a software development and testing tool, was amazingly innovative, worked great, and won a bunch of prestigious awards. Pretotyping evolved as a set of tools, techniques, and metrics to help you make sure that your idea is The (very elusive) Right It. The right metrics are key to identifying The Right It.

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ConversionXL

MAY 3, 2020

Website quality assurance, frequently referred to as QA, pairs optimizers and developers to ensure everything looks and works correctly on all relevant devices and browsers. Understands how the visitor experiences the site and how that differs from developer intentions. What is quality assurance?

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

The batch size is the unit at which work-products move between stages in a development process. Take the example of a design team prepping mock-ups for their development team. Give the dev team your very first sketches and let them get started. For software, the easiest batch to see is code. I dont think so.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, April 26, 2009 Product development leverage Leverage has once again become a dirty word in the world of finance, and rightly so. But I want to talk about a different kind of leverage, the kind that you can get in product development. Its a key lean startup concept.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 5, 2016

before visitors have time to suffer through friction and other “conversion killers” When conducting quality assurance, frequently referred to as QA, you’ll work closely with the development team to ensure everything looks and works correctly on all relevant devices and on all relevant browsers.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

We have been using LinkedIn for both sourcing recruits and reviewing backgrounds for recruits. Mobile Internet Apple Facebook ► 2009 (32) ► December (3) Startup Software Developers Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Be. Its been great to zero in on very specific skillsets.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, October 5, 2008 The product managers lament Life is not easy when youre working in an old-fashioned waterfall development process, no matter what role you play. I met one recently that is working on a really innovative product, and the stories I heard from their development team made me want to cringe.

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dontbesoanalytical.blogspot.com

MAY 13, 2012

One firm had a CTO that was chartered to run a group of developers. The CTO should not manage developers. The head of development spends his or her time working to keep the development team on track against a set of product plans. But if it’s wrong, the CTO has solid documentation to review.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, June 8, 2009 Datablindness Most of us are swimming in a sea of data about our products, companies, and teams. That’s because many of our reports feed us vanity metrics: numbers that make us look good but don’t really help make decisions. Too much of this data is non- actionable.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Once you build it, they will now ask you about the key metrics that they need proven in order to see if you really are a good investment. Even with these, you will have paper-tested your MVP, but the reality is that customers will not be able to assess the value to them until they actually use it. Review the code being built.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

They will need two different implementations, it is quite likely that you will end up with two sets of metrics (more people focused for mobile apps, more visit focused for sites). Mobile content consumption, behavior along key metrics (time, bounces etc.) If you have ecommerce you will see key metrics related to money making.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Now its time to start to think seriously about how to find a repeatable and scalable sales process, how to position and market the product, and how to build a product development team that can turn an early product into a Whole Product. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Meeting growth metrics, achieving profitability, and ensuring a substantial return on investment are now integral parts of the startup journey. Positioned as an expert mobile development team, Applabz turns conceptual ideas into tangible, cutting-edge mobile solutions. Focus on Customer Satisfaction Word of mouth travels fast.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 13, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, July 13, 2009 The Principles of Product Development Flow If youve ever wondered why agile or lean development techniques work, The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development by Donald G. Reinertsen is the book for you.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 20, 2019

If you’re setting business goals – and you absolutely should be – CRMs can help you review your metrics (i.e. number of emails sent, number of meetings booked) to understand how your team is doing. CRMs never forget and provide valuable statistics for predicting cash flow and future business.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Business model viability, in the majority of startups, will come down to balancing two variables: Cost to Acquire Customers (CAC) The ability to monetize those customers, or LTV (which stands for Lifetime Value of a Customer) Successful web businesses have long understood these metrics as they have such an easy way to measure them.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. And this was a huge product, which took years to develop.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Vlad Malik from www.goodui.org gave a review of A/B Tasty: Vlad Malik : “The things I like about ABTasty I like a lot. ” Adobe Target is an enterprise testing tool that does a great job of leveraging a visitor based metric system. Can offer much better data due to true user basis then tools like GO or Optimizely.

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trada.com

APRIL 7, 2010

You have to constantly be clear about what you are trying to achieve, what metrics move the business forward, how to learn enough about something to form an opinion of it, and in what order you think doing things will set your business up to scale. Every day in a startup you battle the same two limitations: resources and time. Great post!

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 16, 2013

We work in prototypically four-week iterations, with quality engineers and software developers working in close collaboration. During this period, the Palantir Gotham team grew from five developers to around 35. Week 1 - New Feature 2 - Development and testing continue together. It wasn’t always this way.

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 1, 2006

Stake holders can be business owners, engineers and developers, web analysts : ), product managers etc, anyone who has something to do with the website or customer experience. Often times lab usability tests are also recorded on video for later review and also to present to a larger audience in a company.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 28, 2020

While they knew that—and that might seem weird—I did start my career as a sales development representative (SDR) selling demand generation SaaS products. But such a simple funnel works only if you have a lot of inbound interest and a sales team focused on fielding inquiries. For sales development (e.g., Image source ).

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 19, 2010

About twenty people on Answers OnStartups have asked this question in one form or another: When I meet an angel investor, he may ask: "What if a big company copies your idea and develops the same website as yours after your website goes public?". Here's one tiny example: I give talks on peer code review at conferences.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 7, 2007

Best practice is to run this nice little program, or your own equivalent, once a week and send a report to your web development team with a list of pages missing the tags. # I know that Omniture has a nifty utility that you can use to validate and review that data is being collected by Omniture tags as it should be.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 7, 2022

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! I'm gonna lease you this, you know, cross-functional development team. Feel free to give us reviews. Also, did you know that we had created training, marketing training for your team? Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! Like this show?

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 29, 2008

The technical interview is at the heart of these challenges when building a product development team, and so I thought it deserved an entire post on its own. Still, a startup product development team is a service organization. Labels: hiring , product development 5comments: TedHoward said.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Some of you out there may find this Google Analytics feature overview to be mostly review. Both feature a full menu of Dimensions and Metrics you can filter on, and a set of rules you can select. That’s awesome! That means you’re really taking ownership of your data. If none of those accomplish what you need, you can create your own.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

Sometimes, a great hacker has the potential to grow into the CTO of a company, and in those cases all you need is an outside mentor who can work with them to develop those skills. At the end of the day, the product development team of a startup (large or small) is a service organization. Does this sound familiar?

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Or, rather, more offensively to Facebook and Google employees, less offensive to.NET developers, though the underlying message is the same.). But just to clarify a couple points, 24-hours into the storm: Yes,NET developers are great at what they do. It’s the most modern platform for application development on the planet.

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