article thumbnail

The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development

Startup Lessons Learned

Four Steps primarily centers its stories and case studies on B2B hardware and software startups. This new volume also tackles examples from the Internet and wireless startups of today, both B2B and B2C. Four Steps primarily centers its stories and case studies on B2B hardware and software startups. Expo SF (May.

article thumbnail

The Lean Startup Workshop - now an O'Reilly Master Class

Startup Lessons Learned

We changed our model to B2B and adopted Agile around 2002. Having lived through this, I wholeheartedly agree that if we had not had enough runway, adopted an agile/lean approach or had patience from our investors it would have failed miserably. . It was a disaster. Expo SF (May. Take a look and let me know what you think.

Lean 60
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Continuous deployment for mission-critical applications

Startup Lessons Learned

Or, phrased more hopefully, "I see how you can use continuous deployment to run an online consumer service, but how can it be used for B2B software?" Some of these benefits are shared by agile systems which have continuous integration but large batch releases, but others are unique to continuous deployment. Or variations thereof.

article thumbnail

Five Key Elements For A Big Analytics Driven Business Impact

Occam's Razor

What guarantees that agility and innovation are present in your analytics practice? They only want to throw up a one page lead-gen form if they are B2B. If you are a numerous employees medium sized business that is growing at a ferocious pace, here's your DC | DR | DA balance: 10 | 25 | 65. Then, ask for real analysis.

article thumbnail

Case Study: Using an LOI to get customer feedback on a minimum.

Startup Lessons Learned

This is especially useful in situations, like most B2B businesses, where the total number of customers is likely to be small. I encourage B2B startups to keep them in their customer development arsenal. This is especially useful in situations, like most B2B businesses, where the total number of customers is likely to be small.

article thumbnail

Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That's Never - AgileVC

Agile VC

They try to position themselves as platforms, while they are only building a smaller feature on top of an existing, extremely powerful, extremely distributed platform run by big companies, with big lawyers and big friends in DC. They picked online, because signing up online B2B partnerships is quick, easy and capital light.

Mobile 250
article thumbnail

How to build companies that matter (the lean startup on O'Reilly.

Startup Lessons Learned

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? Combining agile development with customer developm. Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets.

Lean 68