Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 7, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, January 7, 2010 Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? My explicit goal in working with HBR is to foster a dialog between entrepreneurs and more traditional general managers. Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? - Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Without further ado.

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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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SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

See Customer Development Engineering for my first stab at articulating the theory involved) Ferocious customer-centric rapid iteration, as exemplified by the Customer Development process. Very useful perspective - as a first-time CEO managing a small startup, these ideas are timely and thought-provoking. Less is more.

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APRIL 4, 2010

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JULY 28, 2010

To shed some light, I talked with kaChing , a destination that enables individual investors to find outstanding money managers to manage their money. kaChing launched a virtual portfolio management game on Facebook in January 2008 and a similar version shortly thereafter on kaChing.com.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

So what does CTO mean, besides just "technical founder who really cant manage anyone?" I always assumed I wouldnt manage anybody. Being a manager didnt sound fun - deep down, who really wants to be held accountable for other peoples actions? So I initially gravitated to the CTO title, and not VP of Engineering.

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JUNE 2, 2010

You can view previous essays in this series here: Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable Beware of Vanity Metrics For Startups, How Much Process Is Too Much? You can view previous essays in this series here: Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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MARCH 25, 2010

You can view previous essays in this series here: Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable Beware of Vanity Metrics For Startups, How Much Process Is Too Much? You can view previous essays in this series here: Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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OCTOBER 4, 2008

In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and in 2009 he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership. But I managed a few "good learning experiences" before throwing myself full-bore into IMVU. An engineer who can talk intelligently about gender! Blew my mind.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Its had tremendous impact in many areas: continuous deployment , just-in-time scalability , and even search engine marketing , to name a few. Every time an engineer checks in code, they are batching up a certain amount of work. Similar results apply in product management, design, testing, and even operations.

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MARCH 16, 2009

In a startup, rather than think of ourselves as having a marketing department and an engineering department, I now believe its better to think of ourselves as focusing our energies on unknown problems and unknown solutions. Both Scrum and XP had a role which you could happily call by the modern title "Product Manager".

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JUNE 17, 2010

They are leaders, visionaries, founders and managers having tremendous success. I was an engineer on the engineering team. For one, the engineers consider the artists stupid; the artists consider the engineers arrogant. Yet talent organized improperly can lead to failure. The meeting was tense.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2008

Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile : "Google is an exceptionally disciplined company, from a software-engineering perspective. They work hard to keep their house in order at all times, and there are strict rules and guidelines in place that prevent engineers and teams from doing things their own way.

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AUGUST 26, 2009

As a result, for a lot of these companies, Boulder is just a gateway to San Francisco. Inspiring ideas: real-time biz metrics; safe continuous deployment; A/B split testing. You can learn more about that by reading The engineering managers lament.) TechStars encourages them to go wherever opportunities take them.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

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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. Safely because it is clear that the manager in question didnt do his homework. They are on-schedule and on-budget, but their gross metrics are way off.

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AUGUST 2, 2008

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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. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science?

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NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Labels: customer development , search engine marketing 13comments: Jim Lindstrom said. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science?

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Focus on the output metrics of that part of the product, and you make the problem a lot more clear. To promote this metrics discipline, we would present the full funnel to our board (and advisers) at the end of every development cycle. Max Levchin of Slide and Paypal has noted that 10% of Slides headcount is devoted to metrics only.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

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. why couldnt the engineer see the problem in their sandbox?

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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. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science?

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They adopt, measure, and manage key product performance metrics. A CTO is in the business of scale, for whatever an organization has as its core metrics. Autonomy to self-manage. The CTO’s role is to outline the technical vision and empower the team to execute. They will review and negotiate all related contracts.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Expo San Francisco 2009 The current macroeconomic climate presents unparalleled opportunities for those that can thrive with constrained resources. 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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SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

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JUNE 15, 2009

Managers start to make a note of who’s on which faction, and then assign projects accordingly. One is used by engineers to refer to the process of getting code fully integrated into production. In such a system, the primary goal of each engineer is to stay busy, using as close to 100% of his or her time for coding as possible.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

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OCTOBER 28, 2008

whos on the engineering team? Most important slide: demo (if the product solves an obvious problem), engineering resumes (if the product is nearly impossible to build), " day in the life of a customer " (if neither of the above) Breakthrough technology Key questions: who owns the patents? April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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JULY 5, 2010

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AUGUST 8, 2009

I thought a good place to start was with the origins of the idea that "software design" should be considered a discipline in its own right, on par with computer science, software engineering, and computer programming. Great engineers see it and smile. This is called set-based concurrent engineering (SBCE). [1]

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JUNE 5, 2009

I think this idea is particularly appealing to those of us from an engineering background. Imagine a general manager that has read The Innovator’s Dilemma and related books, and is therefore trying hard to help her organization make a transition to a new product category via disruptive innovation. So far, so good. But $10.00?

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

Later, when the company was much larger, we had everyone on our engineering team agree to sit in on one usability test every month. It wasnt a huge time commitment, but it meant that every engineer was getting regular contact with an actual customer, which was invaluable. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Id like to talk about a technique Ive used to help manage this growth without slowing down. Managers in this area have to take a portfolio approach, promoting ideas that work and might make good candidates for further investment. Growth - when you have existing customers, the pressure is on to grow your key metrics day-in day-out.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2013

If you missed these when they went out live, we encourage you to watch them now , as they lay a strong foundation for The Lean Startup Conference , December 9 -11 in San Francisco—less than two weeks from today. So if we are the managers, if we are the leaders, then we have to look in the mirror. We changed the work.”

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JULY 6, 2009

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JULY 30, 2009

.&# In 2002 I became exposed to the idea of “agile software development&# and subsequently was a first round investor in Rally Software which is now the market leader in Agile application lifecycle management software. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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