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SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. Ive attempted to embed the relevant slides below.

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OCTOBER 5, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, October 5, 2008 The product managers lament Life is not easy when youre working in an old-fashioned waterfall development process, no matter what role you play. Eventually, I hope to get them on a full agile diet, with TDD, scrums, sprints, pair programming, and more. Nice write-up.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, November 4, 2008 Principles of Lean Startups, presentation for Maples Investments Image via Wikipedia Steve Blank and I had the opportunity to create a presentation about lean startups for Maples Investments. Agile software development. How dare you! =) November 4, 2008 10:58 PM IMVU said.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 2, 2008 Just-In-Time Scalability At my previous company, we pioneered an approach to building out our infrastructure that we called "Just-In-Time Scalability." You can also download our presentation, " Just-In-Time Scalability: Agile Methods to Support Massive Growth." Expo SF (May.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 22, 2008 The three drivers of growth for your business model. Master of 500 Hats: Startup Metrics for Pirates (SeedCamp 2008, London) This presentation should be required reading for anyone creating a startup with an online service component. Choose one. Expo SF (May.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, November 13, 2008 Five Whys Taiichi Ohno was one of the inventors of the Toyota Production System. Wed never heard of five whys, and we had plenty of "agile skeptics" on the team. November 13, 2008 8:59 PM eisrael said. November 14, 2008 3:19 AM Hitchens said. Good stuff.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, November 29, 2008 The ABCDEFs of conducting a technical interview I am incredibly proud of the people I have hired over the course of my career. Balancing competing objectives is a recurring theme on this blog - its the central challenge of all management decisions. I use the circle question, too.

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OCTOBER 20, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. Even worse, agile wasnt really helping me ship higher quality software. Great stuff!

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NOVEMBER 8, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, November 8, 2008 What is customer development? This theory has become so influential that I have called it one of the three pillars of the lean startup - every bit as important as the changes in technology or the advent of agile development. November 9, 2008 5:40 PM Chris said. Great post.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 30, 2008 What does a startup CTO actually do? If youre trying to design an architecture to maximize agility, how can that work if some people are working in TDD and others not? October 1, 2008 2:13 AM archenland said. October 2, 2008 8:58 AM Chad said. Great piece!

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AUGUST 3, 2009

Refreshing to finally see lean and agile thinking emerge in product/business-floors and not only in technology. As I present in my blog, defining the MVP requires answering the following question: "Will our customers be willing to buy the product with these features - available at this date - at this price?" Thank you.

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JUNE 2, 2010

As start-ups scale, this agility will be lost unless the founders maintain a consistent investment in that discipline. As start-ups scale, this agility will be lost unless the founders maintain a consistent investment in that discipline. Startup Lessons Learned season one : Every post from the blogs first year in print form.

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AUGUST 26, 2009

If you watch the video/audio below, youll get to see some of the questions I was asked after my presentation. I did my best to capture video and audio; a YouTube playlist and Slideshare slidecast are below: Slides (with audio): 2009 08 19 The Lean Startup TechStars Edition View more presentations from Eric Ries.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, September 10, 2008 Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your code right now Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your code right now A great checklist of techniques and tools for making your development more agile, written from a Rail perspective. Expo SF (May.

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JANUARY 12, 2010

Beyond my own efforts on this blog ( and more ), there is now an amazing variety of resources for lean startup practitioners. When I first started blogging, the startup blogging mafia immediately came to meet me and find out who I was: Dave McClure , Andrew Chen , Sean Ellis and Venture Hacks. Have a favorite who I overlooked?

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JULY 28, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, July 28, 2010 Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot (The following guest post is a new experiment for this blog. And if you’re a regular reader of this blog, you may know that IMVU started out as an instant messaging add-on. kaChing has been very active in the Lean Startup movement.

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DECEMBER 16, 2009

For those whove heard it, it contains a length discourse on the subject of agile software development and extreme programming, including its weaknesses when applied to startups. As Im pontificating about agile, I see the name Kent Beck in my peripheral vision. Now, this webcast was packed, hundreds of people were logged in.

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APRIL 9, 2009

Best of all, Nivi from Venture Hacks was recording, so these slides have synchronized audio, too. Thats the essence of so many of the lean startup techniques Ive evangelized: customer development , the Ideas/Code/Data feedback loop , and the adaptation of agile development to the startup experience. Here are some of my top takeaways.

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AUGUST 2, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, August 2, 2008 Paul Graham on fundraising I have found no better primer on the current realities of starting a new technology company in a startup hub like Silicon Valley than Paul Grahams essays. Startup Lessons Learned season one : Every post from the blogs first year in print form.

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JULY 30, 2009

Brad Feld also had some thoughts on this event on his blog. In 2002 I became exposed to the idea of “agile software development&# and subsequently was a first round investor in Rally Software which is now the market leader in Agile application lifecycle management software. For what its worth, I like Silicon Mountain.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, November 17, 2008 The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: part one Ive written before about some of the advantages startups have when they are very small, like the benefits of having a pathetically small number of customers. Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets.

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OCTOBER 6, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, October 6, 2009 A large batch of videos, slides, and audio Ive been trying very hard to avoid turning this blog into a travelogue. You can read highlights on their blog , or watch this short video: Seedcamp - Day 2 Highlights from Seedcamp on Vimeo.

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JULY 5, 2010

When I wrote a review of Four Steps on this blog in November, 2008, I did my best to be candid and warn of a few shortcomings: And Steve is the first to admit that its a "turgid" read, without a great deal of narrative flow. Startup Lessons Learned season one : Every post from the blogs first year in print form. Expo SF (May.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, September 18, 2008 Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you? And since I have a blog, I have a way to ask questions directly to you. September 19, 2008 2:08 PM gmlk said. September 19, 2008 2:25 PM Eric said. Thanks again, Eric September 19, 2008 2:26 PM Eric said. How annoying!)

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Subscribe via email Blog Archive ► 2010 (48) ► October (3) Case Study: Rapid iteration with hardware The Lean Startup Bundle Stop lying on stage ► September (4) Good enough never is (or is it?) . Expo SF (May.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 2, 2008 Ideas. Labels: agile , listening to customers 3comments: hauteroute said. Learn I like theory too much. But hey, its what helps me think about problems. This simple feedback loop has proven its worth to me time and again. Split-test experiments that go on forever? Expo SF (May.

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JULY 13, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, July 13, 2009 The Principles of Product Development Flow If youve ever wondered why agile or lean development techniques work, The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development by Donald G. Reinertsen is the book for you. Thanks for the informative review. Expo SF (May.

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JANUARY 30, 2009

This is why agility is such a prized quality in product development. Labels: agile , customer development 5comments: William Pietri said. Seems like all of these problems can be to some degree addressed with agile development methods. Even a great architecture becomes inflexible. We can skip the chasm. Great post! Expo SF (May.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, September 5, 2008 Great open source scalability tools from Danga If you are trying to build a scalable LAMP service, its always best to start with the original and still quite relevant presentation, from Brad Fitzpatrick when he was at LiveJournal. sadly, this blog forces you to use a google account.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 15, 2008 The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time Split-testing is a core lean startup discipline, and its one of those rare topics that comes up just as often in a technical context as in a business-oriented one when Im talking to startups. September 15, 2008 9:12 PM Hitchens said.

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MARCH 25, 2010

blog comments powered by Disqus Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe via email Blog Archive ▼ 2010 (48) ► October (3) Case Study: Rapid iteration with hardware The Lean Startup Bundle Stop lying on stage ► September (4) Good enough never is (or is it?) . Expo SF (May.

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JANUARY 7, 2010

Although much of it will sound familiar to readers of this blog, whats new is my first step towards the " new entrepreneurship " that is my goal for 2010. Unlike previous cross-posting Ive done for blogs, where a lot of the discussion happens here, Id like to ask you to take a minute and click through to read the full article.

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DECEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, December 7, 2008 The hackers lament One of the thrilling parts of working and writing in Silicon Valley is the incredible variety of people Ive had the chance to meet. December 8, 2008 7:40 PM Allen Rohner said. Ill be mindful of your advice. :-) Allen December 8, 2008 9:30 PM Amy said.

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MAY 31, 2010

Sean Murphy has an excellent and comprehensive roundup of resources about the conference: all of the slides, videos, summaries, notes and write-ups are listed on his blog here. You can read the rest of his posts on his blog : Introduction , Part 1 , Part 2.) All video from the conference is available for free at Justin.tv

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 1, 2008 Test-Driven Development as andon cord You cannot control what you cannot see, and the hardest part of managing software projects is that the final product is so intangible. Startup Lessons Learned season one : Every post from the blogs first year in print form. Expo SF (May.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2009

This builds on a lot of great thinking that has come before, like the agile movements insistence that only the creation of working code counts as progress for a software development team. Get in touch: Twitter Email Facebook Linkedin Additional resources Startup LessonsLearned, All Seasons : Every post from the blog, in one 600+ page PDF.

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JUNE 22, 2009

Each has its own iterative process: customer development and agile development respectively. thanks for the post, i just discovered this blog recently from one of Steven Blank's post. I am very happy while reading your blog. I am having hard time understanding. June 22, 2009 1:03 PM Eric said. June 23, 2009 9:55 AM LKsaid.

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