Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2010

In management jobs related to operations – that is, the people tasked with actually making and distributing physical products – this kind of thinking is now considered ludicrous, thanks to a century of progress. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. Bring your questions.

San Francisco 161

San Francisco Management Founder Lean 161

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 22, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, November 22, 2008 Net Promoter Score: an operational tool to measure customer satisfaction Ive mentioned Net Promoter Score (NPS) in a few previous posts, but havent had a chance to describe it in detail yet. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers.

.Net 158

.Net Operations San Francisco Lean 158

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. I like the term because of two connotations: Lean in the sense of low-burn. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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Lean San Francisco Startup Continuous Deployment 168

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Similar results apply in product management, design, testing, and even operations. When operating with continuous deployment, its almost impossible to have integration conflicts. a guide for hackers) You buy virtual goods The free software hiring advantage Continuous deployment and continuous learning The lean startup @ Web 2.0

San Francisco 161

San Francisco Software Review Continuous Deployment Development Team Review 161

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 13, 2009

Reinertsen weaves together ideas from lean manufacturing, maneuver warfare, queuing theory, and even the architecture of computer operating systems and the Internet. Executives coming to my product development classes report operating at 98.5 Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers.

Product Development 153

Product Development Developer San Francisco Product 153

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Hes a new employee, and he was not properly trained in TDD So far, this isnt much different from the kind of analysis any competent operations team would conduct for a site outage. For my first time, it was scalability problems and our operations team. why didnt operations get paged? How do you get started with five whys?

Software Review 167

Software Review Technical Review San Francisco Continuous Deployment 167

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

If I have some budget for outside help, should I hire a vendor to help us drive down our payment fraud rates by 1% (ROI easy to predict), or hire a market research firm to give us insights into potential customers (ROI hard to predict)? Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers.

San Francisco 79

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 79

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. Lo, my 1032 subscribers, who are you? ScienceDaily: Corporate culture is most important. The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: Five Whys Where did Silicon Valley come from? .

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Agile San Francisco Software Review Continuous Deployment 76

BeyondVC

DECEMBER 22, 2006

As I started thinking about his question, I remember what it was like setting up our office in 1998 and the headaches and cost of buying a Nortel phone system and phones and hiring a Microsoft networking expert to get our office set up for file sharing, back up, and email. What a nightmare!

Small Business 60

Small Business Wiki Startup Email 60

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 6, 2008

For starters, theres whole volumes that need to be written about how to actually find and hire the people your startup needs. But most startups succeed in hiring, one way or another, and are still left with the problems of organizing the people that rapid growth brings in. Keep the team size small, maybe just two or three people.

San Francisco 74

San Francisco SCRUM Lean Continuous Deployment 74

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. Lo, my 1032 subscribers, who are you? ScienceDaily: Corporate culture is most important. The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: Five Whys Where did Silicon Valley come from? .

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Lean San Francisco Agile Continuous Deployment 102

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2008

Indeed the first thing I thought when I read the first paragraphs that the product manager was operating in a white tower and that the developers felt disenfranchised. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. This post has been removed by the author. Nice write-up. Bring your questions.

San Francisco 158

San Francisco Management Software Review Product 158

discuss.joelonsoftware.com

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

(Not logged on) | Register | Log On Home Discuss Jobs About The Business of Software A community discussing the business of software, from the smallest shareware operation to Microsoft. A part of Joel on Software. This community works best when people use their real names. Please register for a free account. The key here is motivation.

Sweat Equity 40

Sweat Equity Equity Angel Investor Affiliate 40

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. Lo, my 1032 subscribers, who are you? ScienceDaily: Corporate culture is most important. The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: Five Whys Where did Silicon Valley come from? .

Demand 167

Demand San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 167

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. Lo, my 1032 subscribers, who are you? ScienceDaily: Corporate culture is most important. The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: Five Whys Where did Silicon Valley come from? .

San Francisco 88

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 88

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 8, 2008

Maybe operations has changed the OS configuration in production in a way that is incompatible with some developers change. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. The reason its a risk is that, until you integrate, you dont know if the code is going to work. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

Software Review 136

Software Review San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 136

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 7, 2009

For people we hired from larger companies especially, this was challenging. The idea was that these two people would operate as a unit, with the mentors job performance during this period evaluated by the performance of the new person. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers.

Continuous Deployment 131

Continuous Deployment San Francisco Software Review Lean 131

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. As always, Paul is right.

PHP 166

PHP Software Review Ruby San Francisco 166

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. Lo, my 1032 subscribers, who are you? ScienceDaily: Corporate culture is most important. The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: Five Whys Where did Silicon Valley come from? .

San Francisco 60

San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean DC 60

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

For example, imagine a team operating in a traditional waterfall development system, without continuous deployment, test-driven development, or continuous integration. So we need to find solutions that operate at the systems level to break teams out of this pincer action. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Bring your questions.

Continuous Deployment 167

Continuous Deployment Software Review San Francisco Lean 167

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

That’s why we have operations alerts trigger a page, but it can also work for other customer events. This is true for split-testing features, but it’s also true for marketing programs or even operations changes. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers.

San Francisco 84

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 84

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. Lo, my 1032 subscribers, who are you? ScienceDaily: Corporate culture is most important. The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: Five Whys Where did Silicon Valley come from? .

Customer Development 168

Customer Development Developer San Francisco Customer 168

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

these devices all need human instruction to enable correct and desired operation. a guide for hackers) You buy virtual goods The free software hiring advantage Continuous deployment and continuous learning The lean startup @ Web 2.0 Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers.

Programming 143

Programming San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 143

www.igda.org

JULY 24, 2012

They also want to avoid hiring extra resources that increase the cost of the finished goods unless absolutely necessary. … In our study, FDC [artillery Fire Direction Center — ER ] teams from the 82nd Airborne division were tested during simulated continuous combat operations lasting 36 hours. Post to Twitter. Foundation.

Software Review 90

Software Review Technical Review Widget Los Angeles 90

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 9, 2009

And instead of design, engineering, QA, and operations we have a solution team implementing a startup-centric version of agile development. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. Product development leverage Validated learning about customers Built to learn Web 2.0 Bring your questions.

San Francisco 132

San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean Agile 132

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

A group of Seedcamp entrepreneurs started a startup tools wiki for that purpose, and we thought it would be well suited here. Github -Â Free public repositories, collaborator management, issue tracking, wikis, downloads, code review, graphs. find/hire freelancers. hire low-cost international engineering talent.

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

ConversionXL

MARCH 29, 2017

Rob Sobers of Varonis confirms… Rob Sobers , Varonis : “While traditional marketing teams might appear to operate like growth teams in terms of the channels they use (SEM, content marketing, email, etc.), You’ll be able to bring new hires up to speed quickly. Even at large companies, that number only increases to 42%.

Marketing 48

Marketing Distribution Retention eCommerce 48

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Compared to the million-dollar startup, they are operating at micro-scale. Perhaps they’ll be able to hire someone especially skilled in the marketing skills needed to find this positioning. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. How does that stack up? Bring your questions.

Customer 167

Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

Im talking about the actual data-fetching operation. This information is normally maintained by your operations team. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. Im not talking about high-level abstractions (like an object-oriented view of a customers data). Bring your questions.

San Francisco 151

San Francisco Architecture Startup Database 151

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

There is not "just product development" in a startup - the context of extreme uncertainty that we operate in means that every choice we make impacts the whole company. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. August 9, 2009 10:02 AM Mike said. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

Software Review 87

Software Review Design Software San Francisco 87

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 28, 2009

You can train your operations or customer service staff on how it works - all live in the production environment. You can train your operations or customer service staff on how it works - all live in the production environment. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers.

Continuous Deployment 122

Continuous Deployment San Francisco Lean Metrics 122

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

Lean vs. debt In the world of physical goods, the leaner a supply chain is, the less debt is required to operate it. The results were that the Israeli system became operational 10 years ago, while the THAAD project is starting to finally be deployed this year after 10 years of delay. pay 'interest'). Bring your questions.

Technical Review 168

Technical Review Software Review San Francisco Lean 168

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

The US is headed to be a second rate or third rate power if policy isn't changed to permit new and ground breaking applications to operate in large networks. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. September 9, 2009 7:00 AM Anonymoussaid. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

DC 90

DC Washington San Francisco SBIR 90

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 4, 2009

Heres a representative view from an actual Amazon customer review : We all know how to operate our own entertainment center, but what happens when you have to explain it to your babysitter, mother-in-law, or your wife? Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

San Francisco 68

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 68

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. Lo, my 1032 subscribers, who are you? ScienceDaily: Corporate culture is most important. The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: Five Whys Where did Silicon Valley come from? .

Campaign 84

Campaign San Francisco Lean Agile 84

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 21, 2008

Lean startups operate by a different standard. Lean startups operate by a different standard." Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. And, as the commenter rightly points out, this is not really a matter of efficiency. aka "how you get to product/market fit.") Bring your questions.

Lean 121

Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment Startup 121

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

It takes advantage of the idea, which I owe to Clayton Christensen , that customers buying a product are really "hiring" it to do a specific "job" for them. An employer is trying to hire someone for a specific job, and they think they know what that job is. Twenty years from now, operating systems might also work as a good metaphor.

San Francisco 89

San Francisco Continuous Deployment Ruby Lean 89