Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Better to do personal outreach to blogs/local media. Start a blog. The key is to get the outsourced team locked in for the long term and to build your own lean/agile culture. The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded).

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DECEMBER 13, 2010

The idea of this course started on a trip to Stanford University during March 2010, where we realized that many of the great innovations in Silicon Valley are born from Computer Science students, so we said “We should give our computer science students an opportunity to develop a company”.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. So far, I have found "lean startup" works better with the entrepreneurs Ive talked to than "agile startup" or even "extreme startup.") April 6, 2010 8:23 AM Colie Brice said. Great blog!

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OCTOBER 4, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, October 4, 2008 About the author ( Update January, 2010: This post originally dates from October, 2008 back when I first started writing this blog. I didnt include much on the blog at first, because I want you to judge what I write based on what I say, rather than who I am. Thanks much.

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JUNE 11, 2009

Agile – you may find the real opportunities for your company was somewhere else. This means you still need to have a resilient personality, and be agile. And you’ll still need to have a resilient and agile personality, as new customer and product opportunities will appear and change your work. How quickly will you recover?

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

Finally, I’ll write about how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. on Cafepress, but is now literally priceless since the copyright owner put it on his blog.) Absolutely priceless.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

We wanted an agile approach that would allow us to build our software architecture as we needed it, without downtime, but also without large amounts of up-front cost. You can also download our presentation, " Just-In-Time Scalability: Agile Methods to Support Massive Growth." Expo SF (May.

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JUNE 2, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, June 2, 2010 The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business Review) I continue my series for Harvard Business Review with the Lean Startup technique called Five Whys. As start-ups scale, this agility will be lost unless the founders maintain a consistent investment in that discipline.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

In addition to presenting the IMVU case, we tried for the first time to do an overview of a software engineering methodology that integrates practices from agile software development with Steves method of Customer Development. Ive attempted to embed the relevant slides below. What about a hardware business with some long-lead-time components?

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NOVEMBER 4, 2008

Boyd emphasized the importance of agility in combat: "the key to victory is to be able to create situations wherein one can make appropriate decisions more quickly than ones opponent." Agile software development. Agile allows companies to build higher quality software faster. This speeds up the Ideas-Code-Data feedback loop.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2008

This is one of the blog we posted about how some company is doing SEO to promote the website. To help find the right keywords, Ive written an article on my blog Web Startup Help that details How to Do Keyword Research for startups. This post has been removed by a blog administrator. link] November 8, 2008 7:13 PM Jason said.

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MAY 31, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, May 31, 2010 Thank you The past month has been an incredible roller coaster: #sllconf was a trending topic (briefly topping Justin Bieber before the wifi in the hotel gave out), the Web 2.0 You can read the rest of his posts on his blog : Introduction , Part 1 , Part 2.)

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JANUARY 7, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, January 7, 2010 Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? 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. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0,

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OCTOBER 5, 2008

Eventually, I hope to get them on a full agile diet, with TDD, scrums, sprints, pair programming, and more. I went through some of this in bringing agile methodologies to my current firm - except that I am the product manager in question at this case. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0,

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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. Please give us your feedback in the comments.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2008

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. Thanks for this post, I was going to buy the book anyway after reading Stevens blog but this post definitely made me get it faster (just ordered).

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MARCH 25, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, March 25, 2010 Speed up or slow down? Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ▼ March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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APRIL 25, 2011

If you somehow missed SLLCONF 2010 , you can get caught up with a complete video recording here.) It may be hard to remember that there was a time when people in the agile software development community thought Lean Startup was incompatible with agile practices. For readers of this blog, Steve needs no introduction.

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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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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, January 12, 2010 Amazing lean startup resources A year ago, there was no lean startup movement. Beyond my own efforts on this blog ( and more ), there is now an amazing variety of resources for lean startup practitioners. The term was known by maybe a few dozen people. Please share in a comment.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

If youre trying to design an architecture to maximize agility, how can that work if some people are working in TDD and others not? I would love to see some blog posts on any experiences you have had with set-based design. March 23, 2010 2:05 PM Anonymoussaid. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0,

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AUGUST 2, 2008

0comments: Post a Comment Newer 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?) . April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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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. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, I cant wait to see whats next. Expo SF (May.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

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?) . April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Expo SF (May.

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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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SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

I know plenty of people who prefer more advanced source control system, but my belief is that many agile practices diminish the importance of advanced features like branching. Its not that the idea behind them is wrong, but I think agile team-building practices make scheduling per se much less important. Youd better. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Labels: agile , listening to customers 3comments: hauteroute said. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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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. I am wondering if your event will be streamed live (or at least you will blog about it) as I will not be able this summer to visit the US (i am currently in Canada). Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Sounds very similar to agile development which is the way. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

Im always excited to see how these ideas are expressed by entrepreneurs in their own words: petewarden : Another blog post, this one on the @ericries Lean Startup Workshop I attended: [link] #leanstartup tmarkiewicz : Notes from the Lean Startup Dinner with @ericries [link] #leanstartup And I can never resist sharing some positive feedback.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2008

December 18, 2008 9:40 AM 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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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

But what I wanted was an agile marketing team capable of operating independently without day-to-day direction. on April 10, 2009 at 6:58 am Said: Amazing blog. Reply Process for the Enterprise » Blog Archive » People, Staffing, and Steve Blank’s SuperMac Series , on April 17, 2009 at 11:40 am Said: [.]

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Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

And in hindsight, we seemed a bit more agile and innovative in WWII.) Yet decades later the military lacked the agility to write a spec in two years, let alone get 10′s of thousands of new systems deployed on aircraft as Terman had done. Reply Augusta Prince , on April 16, 2010 at 3:08 pm Said: My late friend Gordon P.

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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?) . April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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MARCH 9, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, March 9, 2010 Startup Lessons Learned - the Conference (April 23, 2010 in SF) Today we are opening up registration for the first ever Startup Lessons Learned Conference on April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Im incredibly excited. Im incredibly excited. Expo SF (May.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2009

It uses principles of agile software development, open source and web 2.0, Hey Someone else who is extending the agile/lean approach beyond just developing software. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, I am extending it to all start-ups. I would love to be on your advisory board. Expo SF (May.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. When It’s Darkest Men See the Stars - Steve Blank , November 24, 2010 When It’s Darkest Men See the Stars. but: Something is Still Missing.

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