Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, July 29, 2009 Embrace technical debt Financial debt plays an important and positive role in our economy under normal conditions. Technical debt works the same way, and has the same perils. I won’t pretend that there aren’t teams that take on technical debt for bad reasons.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Due to an interaction effect between your hardware, solar flares, and quantum flux, this virus will crash your computer and erase your hard drive sometime soon. It’s important to invest in good architecture so that your website will scale once customers arrive. I have detected a secret virus in your CPU.

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MARCH 10, 2010

In fact, in many ways talking to your customer and understanding them great detail is often much more powerful before you even go through the product development process. It took an enormous amount of time to work through the same responses and emails and cost money not budgeted due to leaning on the side of generosity.

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