Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 9, 2009

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. Creating a company-wide feedback loop that incorporates both customer development and agile development is a challenge.

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AUGUST 19, 2014

I have pitched to hundreds of angel investors over the years as a result of co-founding two tech companies and raising just shy of $1M in angel capital. VCs are now having to compete with the “super angels,” as discussed in this TechCrunch article. Dan Nainan, Angel from New York City, NY | Website | Twitter.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Eric, Excellent article about an essential technique for startups. 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. Ive linked to your article from mine. Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online. Expo SF (May.

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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. Instead, we do everything possible to validate the founders belief. We dont just abandon the vision of the company at every turn.

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JUNE 22, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, June 22, 2009 Pivot, dont jump to a new vision In a lean startup , instead of being organized around traditional functional departments, we use a cross-functional problem team and solution team. Each has its own iterative process: customer development and agile development respectively.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

So what does CTO mean, besides just "technical founder who really cant manage anyone?" If youre trying to design an architecture to maximize agility, how can that work if some people are working in TDD and others not? Great article youre now in my rss feeds :) October 2, 2008 4:37 AM kamilski81 said. Great article!

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, September 10, 2008 A new version of the Joel Test (draft) (This article is a draft - your comments are especially welcome as I think through these issues. Its not that the idea behind them is wrong, but I think agile team-building practices make scheduling per se much less important.

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DECEMBER 1, 2010

Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. And I tried to evaluate the idea and figure out: What did the founder really need here? Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? same as the old boss.

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MARCH 13, 2009

Since we hadnt shown him much in the way of progress recently, we actually brought in the article to show off. New York Times, Wall Street Journal, CNN, the works. Founders push for it. In some ways, founders are even worse. Great article. what happens when newspapers call you for an article?

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JULY 28, 2010

Andy Mathieson, a founder and managing member at Fairview Capital , was particularly supportive. Finally, after launch, 30 professional money managers, having read articles on the company, contacted kaChing out of the blue. They were interested in the tools and new distribution medium kaChing provided. Expo SF (May.

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JUNE 29, 2020

fast.ai , the company he co-founded with Rachel Thomas and Sylvain Gugger is working to "radically democratize" deep learning by making it accessible to people beyond the tech world through courses, software and other methods. Jeremy Howard has had tremendous impact on the world of AI entrepreneurship. Jeremy Howard : Sure. Good Lord, no.

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DECEMBER 8, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, December 8, 2008 Continuous integration step-by-step Lets start with the basics: Martin Fowlers original article lays out the mechanics of how to set up a CI server and the essential rules to follow while doing it. Great article. So dont sweat the details - jump in and start experimenting.

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APRIL 14, 2009

It should be even more important to the founders themselves, because it demonstrates that their business hypothesis is grounded in reality. These founders have not managed, to borrow a phrase from Steve Blank , to create a scalable and repeatable sales process. Go on an agile diet quickly. More on that in a moment.

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JANUARY 2, 2009

The core of the article is my first attempt to articulate the key metrics (in graph form) that I believe demonstrate customer value. You can read the article to find out why. You can read the article to find out why. Thank you for this excellent article. Thanks for the article. Retention cohort analysis.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2009

This is a fantastic article. Sounds very similar to agile development which is the way. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. February 21, 2009 7:39 AM Rocky1138 said.

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JULY 29, 2009

I hope to show why lean and agile techniques actually reduce the negative impacts of technical debt and increase our ability to take advantage of its positive effects. Yet other agile principles suggest the opposite, as in YAGNI and DoTheSimplestThingThatCouldPossiblyWork. Reconciling these principles requires a little humility.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

It was actually my co-founder Will Harvey who taught me to present this data in the simple format weve discussed in this post. Thanks for writing this article. I saw you speak yesterday at the FB garage and it reminded me of this article. Labels: customer development , split-test 7comments: Editor said. Great post Eric!

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AUGUST 8, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, August 8, 2009 Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and whats changed since then) My recent article on technical debt and its positive uses generated a fair bit of controversy. 1] For more on SBCE, see this MIT Sloan Management Review article. So, in that spirit: thanks, Mitch. Expo SF (May.

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AUGUST 1, 2009

For startups that are tempted to mimic this behavior, I suggest reading the great account of the early Apple in Founders at Work.) I really enjoyed this article, my first time reading any of your stuff. Thanks for another great article! Regardless, they must cull a lot of bad ideas for every one that we hear about. Great Post !

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JULY 2, 2009

Great article as always, Eric. Great article, Eric. I have one comment on style: could you break up your articles with subheadings? It would make article more approachable initially, and easier to scan when I go back to reference it. enjoyed your article. Eric, Thank you for this article.

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DECEMBER 7, 2008

As usual, a fantastic article. In a future article, Id love to see more about what goes into that mentoring process. Another great article. In school I was being pounded day and night with anything that has to do with agile software development. Very nice article, thanks a lot. Great article. Expo SF (May.

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MAY 7, 2009

Interesting article, Eric. This article, like others, has challenged me to think about best practices that I found obvious, a sort of Socratic questioning of the "common sense" that perhaps makes no sense. Whatever fear-reducing tactics you try, share your results in the comments. Or, if fears got you paralyzed, share that too.

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JANUARY 2, 2010

In a forthcoming article Ive written advocating for the Startup Visa , I wrote this: Like other industries – from publishing to automobiles – entrepreneurship is in the process of being disrupted by globalization. So far, 2010 is shaping up to be an even more amazing year; read on to find out why. Expo SF (May.

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JANUARY 12, 2009

Good article, this is exactly the reason Im still primarily a PHP developer rather than Ruby or Python. Nice article. very good article! Everybody should read your article January 16, 2009 2:40 PM Anonymoussaid. I hoped this article might give people some ideas of how to make that happen.

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AUGUST 24, 2009

Or follow all of the New York Times columnists equally? This is good news for everyone except those who have huge legacy investments in large-batch distribution. Because of the incredible array of information available, we have a desperate need for filtering mechanisms. Does anyone really watch the full NBC lineup anymore?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 24, 2009

Most of the content for my presentation is drawn from my original article on engagement loops , with new diagrams courtsey of my friends at Kontagent and a few new examples. Jesse - my attempt in this article was to simultaneously explain the engagement loop and also to give insight into when it should be used.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Their recent article suggests that startups led by women are actually more successful, on average, than those led by men. One last suggestion, which is a technique I learned from my IMVU co-founder Will Harvey. One last suggestion, which is a technique I learned from my IMVU co-founder Will Harvey. Expo SF (May.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2009

Almost to a person, we learned the key skills that would enable us to compete in this new economy in between shifts of highly regimented classes and turns of humiliation at the hands of our more popular peers. Then you set up a web app to co-ordinate volunteers who can wipe a hard drive and install Ubuntu. Good Post. Expo SF (May.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

What led you to become a subscriber, versus just reading an article and leaving like everybody else? (or, Hacker News 3. In order to convince me, Id to see another link to an article here somewhere that I enjoyed. Hacker News 3. Read some articles, liked what I saw. Posted item in Facebook news feed.

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MAY 20, 2010

Although the article is a bit me-centric, I think they did a good job capturing the fact that this is more than just the bloggers and writers, but represents a shift in thinking among entrepreneurs all over the world. The article includes comments from Kevin Dewalt and Drew Houston. Even Marc Andreessen weighs in. Expo SF (May.

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MAY 9, 2014

Some context… like many startups, the founders of Alibaba still own substantial stakes in the company and believe it’s in the company’s best interests for them to retain an outsized influence in the company’s governance longer term. Companies like Ford and the New York Times Co.

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JUNE 5, 2009

An excellent article and responses. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. June 8, 2009 6:11 AM Jason said. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

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JUNE 8, 2009

Related articles by Zemanta The Sharp End of the Stick (steveblank.com) Validated learning about customers (startuplessonslearned.blogspot.com) 4comments: mike@dataspora.com said. Luckily, datablindness is not an incurable condition. Have stories of how you’ve seen it cured? Expo SF (May. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

This line in your article stood out to me: "Much of what makes the USA, and Silicon Valley in particular, such a great place to start a company is the result of good government policy." Towards a new entrepreneurship ▼ 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. Expo SF (May.

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MARCH 11, 2010

for Harvard Business Review) In the latest article for my series in HBR, I discuss the problem of how to figure out how much process startups should have. for Harvard Business Review) In the latest article for my series in HBR, I discuss the problem of how to figure out how much process startups should have. Expo SF (May.

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OCTOBER 21, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, October 21, 2008 Lean startups vs lean companies Venture Hacks has a great article today on lean startups. I want to take up one of the questions posed in the Hacker News discussion of the article: The question in my mind against most of these efficiency driven programs is simple.

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JANUARY 4, 2009

It seems to be taken as a given in this article that youre going to be using relational databases. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. Check out the BigTable paper.

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