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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 8, 2008 The lean startup Ive been thinking for some time about a term that could encapsulate trends that are changing the startup landscape. After some trial and error, Ive settled on the Lean Startup. Of course, many startups are capital efficient and generally frugal.

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Lessons Learned: Combining agile development with customer development

Startup Lessons Learned

Jim Murphy is a long-time agile practitioner in startups. But startups sometimes have trouble applying agile successfully. Embedded in that assumption is why startups fail. XP and Scrum don’t have much to say - they punt. Hes often felt that there was something missing. Enter Jims post.

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Case Study: Lean UX at work

Startup Lessons Learned

Jeff has been promoting the use of Lean UX as an effective method to spur greater innovation, quality and productivity in startups as well as within teams in larger organizations. Lean Startups need to make snap decisions, iterate quickly and pivot when needed. Levels of Agile adoption span the full spectrum across our 6 Scrum teams.

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Lightspeed is growing our Consumer Investing team

Lightspeed Venture Partners

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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Factors in Structuring a Product Organization

SVPG

For nearly every organization that has grown beyond a very early stage startup, one of the most common, yet difficult, questions is the optimal way to split up the product work. The key is not to drive the product structure around the engineering teams, but rather to work together with engineering to move together into alignment.

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Sprint Like An Egyptian: A Tech Entrepreneurship Revolution in Alexandria

Gust

Giza was just a one-day side trip on my main mission: Visiting a tech startup tucked away in Alexandria, a bustling seaside metropolis of 5 million. Building a startup is one of the riskiest endeavors to begin with, so predictability is key, even in the face of known adversity. Silicon Arabia has engineers in Russia as well as Egypt.)

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Lessons Learned: A new version of the Joel Test (draft)

Startup Lessons Learned

I have been thinking a lot about what a new version of this test would look like, given what Ive seen work and not work in startups. but I have not seen that dysfunction in any of the startups I advise, so hopefully its behind us. There are several ways to make progress evident - the Scrum team model is my current favorite.