Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 3, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, August 3, 2009 Minimum Viable Product: a guide One of the most important lean startup techniques is called the minimum viable product. Its power is matched only by the amount of confusion that it causes, because its actually quite hard to do. Robert August 25, 2009 5:25 AM Bernard said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Every board meeting, the metrics of success change. Their product definition fluctuates wildly – one month, it’s a dessert topping, the next it’s a floor wax. And what of the product development team? Time-to-complete-a-sale is not a bad metric for validated learning at this stage.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

One of the sayings I hear from talented managers in product development is, “good enough never is.&# And, most importantly, it helps team members develop the courage to stand up for these values in stressful situations. No vanity metrics should be looked at. No vanity metrics should be looked at.

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betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

I firmly believe that in this age where the product development life-cycle is so short and user feedback comes so quickly, you will know within a year whether you are focusing on a worthwhile one thing. The most important hiring criteria for your executives is cultural fit. As CEO, you are responsible for every hire.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

In a subscription business, maybe your attrition starts matching your acquisition, balancing like magic. Or your cost of customer acquisition just magically floats up to match your customer lifetime value. Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you? Nothing seems to matter.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 17, 2010

The team hired only the best and the brightest. This feedback is a nasty trap, and it’s just how this room full of otherwise rational adults wound up in a screaming match about rounded corners. The team hired only the best and the brightest. I once worked at a startup with an exceptional functional department system.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 17, 2009

Ill do my best to match deserving people up with appropriate sponsors, and Ill be glad to recognize those that give on the blog and at the conference itself. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

You have your general management meeting and in your general management meeting you talk about product development, about marketing and about finance. Another idea would be to say matching up. the sort of pain solution match-up process can work. So you have this cross- filtering or cross-information. Edwin: I know.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2009

The idea is that great product visionaries dont need to listen to customers or test their ideas against reality. They just call forth amazing products from the ether. I really dont buy this account of product visionaries. For one, it doesnt match my experience having worked with some true visionaries at all.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

At IMVU, when wed hire a new engineer, we could get them to ship code to production on their first day, even if they had never programmed in PHP before. Which makes them exactly the kind of programmers companies should want to hire. This let us hire extremely high-caliber programmers to work on it.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

On the other hand, we could match them strength-for-strength as soon as we knew where to go. Im also a big fan of John Boyds work, and your story "from the inside" is a really insightful way of matching maneuver warfare to the political arena. 5comments: Jed Christiansen said. Fantastic post. Oh, and thanks for volunteering!

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 31, 2009

A common question I get asked is "do you know someone amazing that we can hire?" I do my best to play matchmaker, but as those of you who have ever tried to fill a job in a startup know, the most important and elusive quality for a startup hire is fit. Great startups are always hiring, if the fit is right.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2018

Amazon has hired more people for their Alexa division than Google has for the entire company – it’s not hunch, this is going to be the focus. Hire & fire – tools to do a job. match the brand ethos, congruent with the website. Work hard to define meaningful product metrics – enabler of team success.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 27, 2009

However, its not very useful to mix and match features from different models. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. Knowing which model youre in can make these decisions a little less excruciating.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Many viral products have flamed out over the years, able to capture large numbers of users, but proving transient in their value because they failed to engage customers for the long-term. Our goal is to understand the metrics, mechanics, and levers of engagement. Some of those affected customers decide to return to your product.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

Because the people performing the task had the vision that most exactly matched users' subconscious needs. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 17, 2017

In short, they need to approach data and experimentation from multiple fronts, so it gets a bit complicated in how they actually do this, as well as how they balance experimentation with their typical product development process. They also experiment frequently with their own product’s functionality. .”

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