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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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2010

I’ve introduced a new class at Stanford to teach engineers, scientists and other professionals how startups really get built. This Stanford class will introduce management tools for entrepreneurs. ——————– Engineering 245. Start your blog/wiki/journal. Below is the class syllabus.

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OnlyOnce

JUNE 5, 2014

Book short: Life Isn’t Just a Wiki. But the book was also a little bit of an angry rant against bad management wrapped inside some otherwise good points about remote management. But the book was also a little bit of an angry rant against bad management wrapped inside some otherwise good points about remote management.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

They communicated this to product management who looked at all of the internal requirements we had generated (e.g. and product management worked with me to decide what to build & when. He published our first wiki where the whole list of potential features were outlined. But they went one step further.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

We were going to toss teaching the business plan aside and try to teach engineering students a completely new approach to start companies – one which combines customer development, agile development, business models and pivots. Start their blog/wiki/journal for the class. But we could be wrong.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

They adopt, measure, and manage key product performance metrics. They will manage the steps necessary to identify, select, and integrate your software and IT vendors, including third party product dependencies, email, network, wiki, intranet, project management, and telecommunications. Autonomy to self-manage.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2010

The Lean Startup Wiki (hosted by long-time lean startup pbWorks) contains a number of resources, including links to case studies , meetups, tools , and people who have volunteered to help. Its a wiki, feel free to consume and enhance it. Its a wiki, feel free to consume and enhance it. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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Startup Lessons Learned

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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Startup Lessons Learned

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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Startup Lessons Learned

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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Startup Lessons Learned

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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bizthoughts.mikelee.org

MARCH 8, 2012

BizThoughts Thoughts about business, technology, the web & entrepreneurship About Booklist Contact Nov 15 2011 Finding a Technical Cofounder By Mike Lee Categories: Entrepreneurship , Leadership Since I have a technical background, I get about one offer a month to join some engineering team, or to be a technical cofounder.

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Startup Lessons Learned

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. Bring your questions.

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Startup Lessons Learned

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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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 4, 2010

Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, and more ► January (6) Lo, my 18891 subscribers, who are you? April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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Startup Lessons Learned

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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Startup Lessons Learned

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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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Perhaps it’s the product manager in me that gets a kick out of figuring out how do they do onboarding? A quick look at what’s available shows they are targeting enterprise users (design, product, sales, human resources, engineering…) but the Personal and Education template libraries are also fairly developed.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 29, 2013

How does a small app developer manage to distinguish itself on the new Microsoft Office app store? Work fast, track competitors and design a great icon. One of the features of the new Microsoft Office revision is the Office Store , where users can download plugins and other tools to supplement the core Office experience.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

I break the answer to that question down into three engines: Viral - this is the business model identified in the presentation as "Get Users." Thats why eBay advertises on search engines, and Facebook doesnt. Labels: search engine marketing 0comments: New comments are not allowed. Thats where Id like to pick up the discussion.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 2, 2010

You can view previous essays in this series here: Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? You can view previous essays in this series here: Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Applied to a start-up, heres how it works. Speed up or slow down?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 18, 2010

If youre interested in contributing a case study for publication here, consider getting started by adding it to the Lean Startup Wiki case study section. Managing weekly releases got a lot harder once I started doing customer development. I try and follow a formalized Five Whys process (using our internal wiki) for every error.

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Startup Lessons Learned

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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Steve Blank

MARCH 15, 2011

Start their team’s blog/wiki/journal to record their progress during for the class. Autonomow team members: Jorge Heraud (MS Management, 2011) Business Unit Director, Agriculture, Trimble Navigation, Director of Engineering, Trimble Navigation, MS&E (Stanford), MSEE (Stanford), BSEE (PUCP, Peru). Personal Libraries.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Waves of technology platforms The lean startup Customer Development Engineering Greasemonkey compiler Great open source scalability tools from Danga Ideas. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 25, 2010

You can view previous essays in this series here: Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? You can view previous essays in this series here: Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? This is the speed-up-or-slow-down moment. Bring your questions.

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Startup Lessons Learned

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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Startup Lessons Learned

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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Startup Lessons Learned

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? how do you know anyone would want it?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

The human tendency to moralize about debt affects engineers, too. This reverses the standard intuition about what engineering activities add value, which usually concludes that test coverage is a form of necessary waste but a refactoring is value-added work. It is so true, but non-tech managers usually try to ignore the facts away.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Waves of technology platforms The lean startup Customer Development Engineering Greasemonkey compiler Great open source scalability tools from Danga Ideas. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 2, 2009

My son is planning a software product that will take the mystery out of wikis and make the technology easier for consumers to use. A few of us have banded together to do this ourselves and are actively working on several projects, including coworking, free startup workshops (our next one in on Jan 7th about product management), jellys etc.

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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. These tests are written by the engineers themselves, and they must all pass every time. Bring your questions.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

Its even more critical in lean startups when they need to manage growth. Thus the power of the Chief Engineer is very large even though he (and they are all men so far) has no direct reports other than a secretary and a few assistants who are themselves being trained to be chief engineers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Waves of technology platforms The lean startup Customer Development Engineering Greasemonkey compiler Great open source scalability tools from Danga Ideas. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

You can learn more about that by reading The engineering managers lament.) leanstartup We organized our engineering team at IMVU to try and maximize cross-functional collaboration. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Asked where I find visionary early adopters who pay 4 buggy beta SW.

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devver.wordpress.com

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Ben and I keep a wiki, which has grown to be an incredibly useful resource and was the initial starting point for our last two companies) Ideas should have an “Aha!&# Tactical CTOs are internally focused, manages the team, makes the day-to-day tactics so the product gets out there. Becoming the CTO vs VP of engineering?

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