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Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases non-events

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 18, 2010 Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases non-events The following is a case study of one entrepreneurs transition from a traditional development cycle to continuous deployment. Continuous Deployment is Continuous Flow applied to software.

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It's a startup, not a spreadsheet

Startup Lessons Learned

In a startup context, numbers like gross revenue are actually vanity metrics, not actionable metrics. Similarly, it’s easy to generate large aggregate numbers by simply falling back to non-disruptive or non-sustainable tactics (see Validated learning about customers for one example). June 8, 2009 1:16 AM Colin said.

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Lessons Learned: Please teach kids programming, Mr. President

Startup Lessons Learned

You set up a web app to put volunteers in touch with after-school programs which already exist, already have safe places and supervisory staff, and which need computers, and then the people with the old computers to give away put the computers in boxes and mail them to the after-school programs. Theres three parts to it. Expo SF (May.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

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Every board meeting, the metrics of success change. First of all, it means that most aggregate measures of success, like total revenue, are not very useful. Time-to-complete-a-sale is not a bad metric for validated learning at this stage. Now that Im in a web based company Im finding a difficult match the framework, culturally.

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

Despite all the energy invested in talking to authors about the size of their platform, very few gatekeepers have a rigorous set of metrics for measuring it. The problem is that there are no other metrics they can look at to judge the content of a book to know if it’s worth reviewing. Is that a lot? In that I see opportunity.

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Lean startup tools for Rails apps

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Because it has an RSS feed, one could also use "Unresolved Hoptoad Errors" as a metric influencing the continuous deployment system. This isnt Rails-specific, but we use SimpleDB for dumping a lot of important metrics data, like performance measurements, which we then turn into metrics.

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Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium

Startup Lessons Learned

Designed for large businesses, the channels let a company share several types of documents, brand the channel with their own design elements, and then include display advertising, contest promotions, blog aggregation, social media integration and metrics reporting. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May.