Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, September 10, 2008 A new version of the Joel Test (draft) (This article is a draft - your comments are especially welcome as I think through these issues. Please leave feedback!) I am convinced one of Joel Spolskys lasting contributions to the field of managing software teams will turn out to be the Joel Test , a checklist of 12 essential practices that you could use to rate the effectiveness of a software product development team.

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Eric Friedman

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

I learned today that the Esquire magazine with video on the cover is now out. Reminds me of the quote. The future is here. It’s just not widely distributed yet. It certainly makes you wonder how long before newstands get special copies with video for their windows, or all magazines simply get this built into them. Here is the inside cover of the magazine with a Ford Flex ad.

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Jason Ball

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

My beta invite for Dropbox (funded by Y Combinator ) arrived this weekend - and my initial impression is very positive. I’ve migrated my home mac use to a client/server (MacBook Pro/iMac) set up- with my iMac doing most of the heavy lifting. I’ve tried multiple back up services and even tried to use iDisk as a “dropbox”, but it never worked like it should.

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Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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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. In addition to presenting the IMVU case, we tried for the first time to do an overview of a software engineering methodology that integrates practices from agile software development with Steves method of Customer Development.

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aweissman.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2008

skip to main | skip to sidebar. aweissman.com. Maximizing the serendipity around you. Sep 6, 2008. More. Lazyweb links: [link] (via kortina ) Dave Cancels invisible web Twitter Counter Daytum - what is it? I like anything that greets one with a "Hello" Recomm.me "a simple Twitter bot with memory" Stevienickshasnever the prison burpee. at 10:53 AM. More.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, September 10, 2008 Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your code right now Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your code right now A great checklist of techniques and tools for making your development more agile, written from a Rail perspective. Of the techniques he mentioned, I think four are fundamental and critical for any lean startup: TDD (or the even more politely named TATFT ) Continuous integration Automate your deployme

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, September 10, 2008 Seth Godin: How often should you publish? Is it too self-referential to post a blog entry about someone elses blog entry about how often to write a blog entry ? I dunno. But Seth Godin is a great writer, so I dont see why I cant crib from him whenever. His post is ostensibly about how often to release new work (whether youre a blog writer, movie star, software team.) but its really about how to manage your effort between what he calls th

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 8, 2008 Waves of technology platforms I still remember the first time I switched to LAMP. I was building a new startup in 1999, and wanted to do it right. I had heard that all great companies built their applications on Oracle. So one of the first things we did was to hire an Oracle expert and get to work.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, September 10, 2008 Marc Prenskys Weblog: Cell Phones in Class Marcs writing has been a huge influence on me in thinking through the consequences of the way the current generation of "digital natives" is educated. Are todays kids apathetic? Hes argued that a kid who cant pay attention in class but can master the latest Halo in 14 straight hours doesnt have an attention problem, he or she has a boredom problem.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 6, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, September 6, 2008 Greasemonkey compiler Ive been incredibly impressed by Greasemonkey , the Firefox add-on that lets you easily extend the browser with simple Javascript. Ive been even more impressed by the various Greasemonkey compilers out there, that let you turn a Greasemonkey script into a full-blown Firefox extension, for easy distribution.

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