Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 2, 2008
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 2, 2008 Just-In-Time Scalability At my previous company, we pioneered an approach to building out our infrastructure that we called "Just-In-Time Scalability." We wanted an agile approach that would allow us to build our software architecture as we needed it, without downtime, but also without large amounts of up-front cost.
Pascal's View
SEPTEMBER 1, 2008
The New York Times reports today on Judy Estrin’s new book , ‘ Closing The Innovation Gap’ , which I plan to read with interest when it comes out later this week. The article summarizes key elements of the book as follows– ‘Ms. Estrin argues that short-term thinking and a reluctance to take risks are causing a noticeable lag in innovation.
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Jason Ball
SEPTEMBER 3, 2008
Normally, I don't post anything portfolio related, but one of our companies, InvenSense , is launching some very cool technology inside the upcoming Wii Sports Resort.
Cracking the Code
SEPTEMBER 2, 2008
Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Tuesday, September 02, 2008. Death Sentence for SaaS.or for Lawson? In a very entertaining interview published by Zdnet Asia last week, the CEO of Lawson, the ERP software company, forecasts the collapse of the SaaS market in two years - at the same time the recently published report from Deutsche Bank on SaaS ("SaaS and Cloud Computing" by Tom Ernst, June 2008) cl
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
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 2, 2008
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 2, 2008 Ideas. Code. Data. Implement. Measure. Learn I like theory too much. But hey, its what helps me think about problems. This simple feedback loop has proven its worth to me time and again. Its inspired by the classic OODA Loop and is really just a simplified version of that concept, applied specifically to creating a software product development team.
Pascal's View
AUGUST 30, 2008
China is a land of contrasts, and on my recent trip, which included visits to Shanghai, Lijiang, Xian, Hong Kong/Macau, and, of course, Beijing, we witnessed a country fully committed to irrevocable infrastructural change and possessed of a national will to move forward in both its social and economic growth. From an energy conservation standpoint, there are great opportunities for China to conserve energy and reduce carbon emissions.
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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.&# This basic pattern is useful in all aspects of product development. The basic idea is to avoid building something based on what you think it might need to do in the future. Instead, we build for today, but then constantly look for ways to reconfigure what we’ve created to make it more general, more flexible, more useful.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 1, 2008
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 1, 2008 Test-Driven Development as andon cord You cannot control what you cannot see, and the hardest part of managing software projects is that the final product is so intangible. Automated tests make defects visible. In almost all Agile Development systems, thousands of automated tests are run against every change to the software.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 2, 2008
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 2, 2008 Not crossing the chasm What does life feel like in the chasm ? How do you plan for it? A growing startup with a well-run product team will have a history of steady progress. Incremental feature releases leading to correlated growth. The strength of the team determined the pace, and the best companies iterate and learn fastest.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 5, 2008
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, September 5, 2008 Great open source scalability tools from Danga If you are trying to build a scalable LAMP service, its always best to start with the original and still quite relevant presentation, from Brad Fitzpatrick when he was at LiveJournal. You can find the 2005 version here. Youll learn how they pioneered the use of a lot of open source tools at new levels of scale, and even created quite a few more, that are essential scaling aids.
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