Lightspeed Venture Partners

APRIL 12, 2016

His nickname is Tank and I wouldn’t have minded having him as a teammate in my rugby playing days either, holding me up in the scrum! He’s the cofounder and former CTO of LivingSocial, and over the past few years has angel invested in companies such as Shyp, LendingHome, Walker & Co, and also sits on the board of a YC alumni ThinAir.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

Paint them a picture of what you want – the user experience, how the interface should feel, what problem the backend needs to solve, what intuitive behaviors the product should engender. Talking scrum to creative won’t work as well as to developers. They have been on the bleeding edge of product innovation for decades.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

The application of agile development methodologies which dramatically reduce waste and unlock creativity in product development. 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. (See

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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. He wrote it in 2000, and as far as I know has never updated it. Do you have a spec?

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SVPG

AUGUST 20, 2012

In my last article I talked about one technique for applying Scrum concepts to product discovery – the opportunity backlog. In this article, I wanted to talk about another, which is to time-box product discovery. But product discovery is not about delivery. Time-limiting is what we did in Waterfall.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 14, 2020

It’s a great example of how product features can drive organic traffic. In fact, new product features are the most underrated driver of SEO growth for large sites. movies, songs, products, profiles, etc.). For inventory-driven sites, the website is a big part of the product. I call the later type “inventory driven.”.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

The human tendency to moralize about debt affects engineers, too. Startups especially can benefit by using technical debt to experiment, invest in process, and increase their product development leverage. The biggest source of waste in new product development is building something that nobody wants.

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Scalable Startup

JANUARY 15, 2015

Work directly with engineers, no company involved. To start off you should focus on working with a company that offers you direct access to engineers and is willing to work as an extended branch for your team. Also, it is not about the engineering talent only! Hire them 8 hours at a time and review daily by skype, g hangout.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Article: Behind Every Great Product. I titled the paper, “Behind Every Great Product” and it was inspired by the classic Good Product Manager / Bad Product Manager by Ben Horowitz. The paper proved popular and helped many teams to get a better understanding of just what product was all about.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

I believe its important that product teams be cross-functional, no matter what other job function the product champion does. At IMVU , we called this person a Producer (revealing our games background); in Scrum , they are called the Product Owner. about what their function needs to do to fully support the product.

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SVPG

OCTOBER 24, 2012

I have written recently about how product teams do product discovery in parallel with product delivery. I have also written about how teams sometimes like to time-box their product discovery work. Nearly all product teams today do continuous build. What about product discovery?

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SVPG

MARCH 10, 2016

For many years, as teams move to Agile methods (they usually start with Scrum), many companies decide to contract with or hire an Agile Coach. These people are there to help the broader team – especially engineers, QA, product managers and product designers – to learn the methods and mindset involved in moving to Agile.

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ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

JULY 11, 2012

The implementation and architecture can also suffer if the team under or over invests engineering time, implementation of standards, or testing discipline in the wrong areas. Left on its own, product owners and development teams just may make debatable and sometimes questionable decisions on priorities or implementation strategy.

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SVPG

JUNE 5, 2015

NOTE: This article is a narrative version of a talk I’ve given for developers at the Craft Conference and for product managers and designers at Mind The Product. In this article I’d like to discuss the root causes of so many product failures. Finally the requirements and design specs make it to engineers.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

It is bad legislation and it will add significantly to non-productive administrative and legal overhead and kill productivity within the technology sector in Colorado (including not only technology-related businesses, but virtually every business – and every consumer – who uses technology). This bill will NOT affect our company.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 15, 2011

In this post, I'll focus on a few keys to helping co-founders work together to build a better product. A quick note, while I primarily talk about co-founders, the same principals should also be applied to interacting with all early employees as you really are partners on the mission to build a great product. Discuss.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

In fact, in many cases, the costs of not having products to sell can be higher than if you had too much to sell. Damage and theft are additional costs, as are the costs of insurance, the costs of freight to get product and materials, the costs to manually count inventory, and finally, the costs of storage and handling.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

I’ve talked with a number of software development shops who are eager to get into the business of cofounding companies, i.e., getting product revenue and equity instead of just consulting revenue. If we believe in founders enough, we should believe in their potential more than what they could be paying us to build the product.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 9, 2009

No engineering team. But where it makes sense, that team may also include engineers building new experiments or prototypes to try with customers. And instead of design, engineering, QA, and operations we have a solution team implementing a startup-centric version of agile development. You need a problem team and a solution team."

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

How to move from a free to a paid product without losing all your users. Ryan: So, the question that I had, I was kind of thinking about this, is right now we’re moving from being a free product, so our goal is to get people in the door, and learn from them and get some feedback, see how to use it.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 6, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, December 6, 2008 The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: part three Those startups that manage to build a product people want have to deal with the consequences of that success. Lets start with the most important thing you can do to help product teams succeed: make them cross-functional.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

Jesper Richter-Reichhelm is Head of Engineering at social games company Wooga. There are departmental heads, such as the Head of Engineering of which we have two who take care of different parts of that field, and others that look after their respective departments. Here he gives an insight into the firm’s internal organization.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Heres something I can relate to: We used assembla for subversion, scrums, milestones, wikis, and for general organizational purposes. Scrum reports would come in once a month, nobody was actually responsible for anything. Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

18:21) Carl on optimism and what he did as head of stores at Home Depot post-Katrina to take care of customers and employees, including selling products out of the back of a truck via an IOU system. They were 90 minute, I'll call it, sprints and the team started scrumming really as soon as we got back on Saturday night.

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adam.heroku.com

MAY 18, 2012

A full copy of the state of the entire company and your product is easily contained within everyone’s brain. At this stage, you’re trying to create and vet your minimum viable product, which is a fancy way of saying that you’re trying to figure out what you’re even doing here. Stage 2: The first hires.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

By Alan Glazer, Senior Product Manager at Hostway Services, Inc. In addition to the obstacles illuminated by the study, senior systems engineer and technology author Karl Palachuk also noted several other issues with companies’ disaster recovery strategies, including: They may not have a DR plan in place at all. Other Challenges.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 30, 2019

In 2013, I left a CTO job overseeing a 50-person product engineering team for the same job at a four-person startup. Upon arrival, I incorporated a few elements from my previous stop into this new endeavor, including a battle-tested Agile Scrum process and the corresponding technology. Manage Your Workflow — Or Else.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

is what we call the Minimum Viable Product (MVP). Dont wait 4 weeks or more while programmers are "building features" If they cant deploy new features into production at least twice a week, dont use them. Would love to hear your insights sometime into how to partner with engineers. Thanks again for the good tips.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

AgileZen – project management visually see and interact with your work Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Firebase : Are all your developers front-end engineers? Google Custom Search Engine. Google App Engine. Search Engine Optimization Tools. Google App Engine â?? Great for visualizing work of product development. Banana Scrum â?? A tool simple as Scrum itself. agile product management.

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