Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 7, 2010

for Harvard Business Review) Im excited to have just published the first of several articles on entrepreneurship for the Harvard Business Review online. 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. Without further ado.

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Startup Lessons Learned

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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Startup Lessons Learned

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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Startup Lessons Learned

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? Great article youre now in my rss feeds :) October 2, 2008 4:37 AM kamilski81 said. While reading this article Ive been thinking about my role as "CTO". Great article! Especially w.r.t.

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Startup Lessons Learned

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. Great article. excellent article although it breaks the whole concept of Launch now worry later. what happens when newspapers call you for an article?

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 1, 2015

This week’s set of beauteous links and delicious articles that we shared with you over the past week on our crowdSPRING Twitter account (as well as my own Twitter account ) is keyboard perfection! A Designer’s Introduction to “Agile” Methodology – Tuts+ Web Design Article bit.ly/1JT4QEb.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 22, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, March 22, 2010 The new startup arms race (for Huffington Post) The Huffington Post published an op-ed on the Startup Visa movement that Ive been working on for some time. Ive quoted from the article extensively below, but I hope youll take a moment and read the whole thing. Expo SF (May.

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SVPG

JUNE 16, 2012

For this article, I thought I'd share my current list of favorites. Think in leaps, but iterate in steps" - I attribute this to Google, and I like it because it helps to highlight the need for both product vision and for Agile methods, and to help teams understand why these goals are not in conflict. "Be

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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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Startup Lessons Learned

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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Startup Lessons Learned

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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Startup Lessons Learned

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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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2010

Cut Your Words: 5 Articles on Concise Writing – [link]. is a new web magazine about how wordsmiths will survive in the 21st century – [link]. is a new web magazine about how wordsmiths will survive in the 21st century – [link]. Great article on focus – [link]. Great article on focus – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2010

Cut Your Words: 5 Articles on Concise Writing – [link]. is a new web magazine about how wordsmiths will survive in the 21st century – [link]. is a new web magazine about how wordsmiths will survive in the 21st century – [link]. Great article on focus – [link]. Great article on focus – [link].

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Startup Lessons Learned

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. Very well written article. Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online. I plan to pick up this book though. Expo SF (May.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 19, 2014

For example, one of the angels I pitched to cared deeply about our competitive landscape, whereas another wasn’t too concerned about the competitive landscape, he was more interested in our financial assumptions and my team’s ability to implement in an agile fashion. Dan Nainan, Angel from New York City, NY | Website | Twitter.

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Startup Lessons Learned

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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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

This is a fantastic article. 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? (a

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Austin Startup

MARCH 17, 2017

Latest technology We met many interesting people at SXSW and one of them was the head of digital innovation at a major performing arts organization in New York, where he focuses on digital strategy. If you couldn’t make it, here are some interesting insights based on conversations we had and exhibits we visited.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2010

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. Finally, after launch, 30 professional money managers, having read articles on the company, contacted kaChing out of the blue.

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Startup Lessons Learned

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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Startup Lessons Learned

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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Startup Lessons Learned

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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Startup Lessons Learned

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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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Go on an agile diet quickly. With a product development team that is not shipping, any agile methodology will surface major problems quickly. Force anyone who is in customer contact to take the role of the Product Owner and insist that they deliver something new on a short regular interval. Eric, Thanks for a great article.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 1, 2009

I really enjoyed this article, my first time reading any of your stuff. Thanks for another great article! So I don't think the Apple experience should be used to discount lean, agile, or customer development-type approaches. The distinction seems subtle but is there nonetheless. Thanks for writing this. Made me think!

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Startup Lessons Learned

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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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 29, 2020

An article he wrote for the Washington Post , published on March 28th, when America was still reeling from the exponential growth and the CDC was telling the public not to wear masks, was the first real call to arms for masks. And B what do you mean an article?" I think it's four or five in Hong Kong. They've kept their economies open.

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Startup Lessons Learned

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

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Thanks for writing this article. I saw you speak yesterday at the FB garage and it reminded me of this article. 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?

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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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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 3, 2017

The Hacker Chick Blog ended up becoming one of the top agile software development blogs on the Internet. At the time, I read an article about a man who told his story of asking The Universe for a very specific sign to help him make an important decision, and that he got an answer – his sign was a red balloon.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 4, 2015

This can help you spot trends more quickly and see search indicators you hadn’t considered before, allowing your brand to react with more agility and better adjust to your users’ needs. American Express’s OPEN Forum provides articles and forum boards to help its small business cardholders connect and help each other with business issues.

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Startup Lessons Learned

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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Startup Lessons Learned

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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Startup Lessons Learned

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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Steve Blank

JULY 6, 2010

When we were looking for funding for IMVU (the company where Eric Ries first implemented Customer and Agile Development and where the Lean Startup was born,) I thought of Shawn. New York to Cairo, Aswan, Abu Simbel, Luxor, Tel Aviv, Haifa, Tiberias and Jerusalem. They are agile, resourceful and aggressive.

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