K9 Ventures
AUGUST 13, 2010
What started out as a generic web-based chat solution morphed into a full-fledged product for a distance education that we called iClass. (We We really were doing the i-thing before Apple came out with its first iMac in 1998. Our products were iClass, then iMeet, iServe and iShow.). The product worked.
Startup Lessons Learned
JUNE 8, 2009
So the product development team was busy creating lots of split-tests for lots of hypotheses. That’s causing the Product Owner and team to spend more time with each other reviewing the results of experiments, which is allowing them to learn and iterate much faster. They’ve learned to see this waste.
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Startup Lessons Learned
JANUARY 19, 2009
One, which is described in great detail in the Mythical Man-Month (in finding that link, I discovered that today is coincidentally the exact 11th anniversary of my first purchasing that book: Jan 19, 1998), is that as you add people to a team or project, there is an increase in communications overhead that makes everyone slightly less productive.
Startup Lessons Learned
FEBRUARY 7, 2013
As we head into 2013, it's a good time to reflect on how far the Lean Startup movement has come: When I first started blogging in August of 2008, I had no idea what to expect. Startup blogging was hardly "cool" back then. There's even a classic Wizard of Oz minimum viable product that dates back to 1998!
Seeing Both Sides
AUGUST 3, 2012
To help shine some light on this topic, I’ve decided to do a series of blog posts of case studies of companies founded in the last 10-15 years that have made the transition from finding initial product-market fit to building a large, scalable, platform company. After all, scaling is hard. Really hard. Akamai: The Present.
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