Agile, Business Model, Continuous Deployment and Marketing

Tesla and Adobe: Why Continuous Deployment May Mean Continuous Customer Disappointment

Steve Blank

JANUARY 6, 2014

This process forced companies to release and launch products by model years, and market new and “improved” versions. In the last few years Agile and “Continuous Deployment” has replaced Waterfall and transformed how companies big and small build products. Marketing delivers a “requirements” document to engineering.

Continuous Deployment

Continuous Deployment Customer Agile Cloud

Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. So far, I have found "lean startup" works better with the entrepreneurs Ive talked to than "agile startup" or even "extreme startup.") Of course, many startups are capital efficient and generally frugal.

Lean

Lean San Francisco Startup Continuous Deployment

Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 22, 2008 The three drivers of growth for your business model. The AARRR model (hence pirates, get it?) He also has a discussion of how your choice of business model determines which of these metric areas you want to focus on. Choose one.

San Francisco

San Francisco CPA SEM CTO Hire

Fear is the mind-killer

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 7, 2009

I spent some time with his company before the conference and discussed ways to get started with continuous deployment , including my experience introducing it at IMVU. Moreover, approaching the problem from the direction that I had intuitively is a recipe for never reaching a point where continuous deployment is feasible.

Continuous Deployment

Continuous Deployment San Francisco Software Review Lean

Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

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? And what about if deployment takes forever? For example, how are you going to explain that component drive architecture like.NET isn't going to work for cross platform open open source business models?

CTO

CTO Fractional CTO CTO Hire Technical Review

Embrace technical debt

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. Just as a business incurs some debt to take advantage of a market opportunity developers may incur technical debt to hit an important deadline.

Technical Review

Technical Review Software Review San Francisco Lean

Business ecology and the four customer currencies

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, December 14, 2009 Business ecology and the four customer currencies Lately, I’ve been rethinking the concept of “business model&# for startups, in favor of something I call “business ecology.&# Constructing a working business model is a form of ecosystem design.

Customer

Customer San Francisco Viral Lean

It's a startup, not a spreadsheet

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

One way to conceive of our goal in an early-stage venture is to incrementally “fill in the blanks&# for the business model that we think will one day power our startup. For example, say that your business model calls for a 4% conversion rate – as ours did initially at IMVU. Expo SF (May.

San Francisco

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment Startup

Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

What matters is proving the viability of the company’s business model, what investors call “traction.&# Of course this is not at all true of many profitable small businesses, but they are not what I mean by startups.) Most importantly, they have lots of data about the unit economics of their business.

Customer

Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick

Austin: the Lean Startup tour continues

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 27, 2009

It uses principles of agile software development, open source and web 2.0, and lean manufacturing to guide the creation of technology businesses that create disruptive innovation. This presentation will empower entrepreneurs and managers to: -Identify a profitable business model faster and cheaper than your competitors.

Lean

Lean Austin San Francisco Continuous Deployment

Lessons Learned: Don't launch

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Announce a new product, start its PR campaign, and engage in buzz marketing activities. Marketing launch) Make a new product available to customers in the general public. This is the usual reason given for a marketing launch, but for most early stage startups, its a failure. You have to know your business model.

San Francisco

San Francisco PR Lean Early Stage

Lessons Learned: When NOT to listen to your users; when NOT to.

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 6, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 6, 2008 When NOT to listen to your users; when NOT to rely on split-tests There are three legs to the lean startup concept: agile product development , low-cost (fast to market) platforms , and rapid-iteration customer development. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

San Francisco

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment Agile

Lessons Learned: Refactoring yourself out of business

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 28, 2009

On the one hand, I think they have an urgent problem, and need to invest 100% of their energy into finding a business model (or another form of traction). Labels: agile , product development , Test-driven development 11comments: William Pietri said. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Expo SF (May.

San Francisco

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC

The Lean Entrepreneur is here

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Berkeley Pizza: from pizza in the farmer's market to a sit-down restaurant. One example is in their marketing, which in today's environment requires providing value. This doesn't mean pointing to the product and describing the product's value, but rather the marketing provides value itself. Lean Startup has gone mainstream.

Lean

Lean Entrepreneur Agile San Francisco

Do lean startup principles have a place in the enterprise?

The Next Web

AUGUST 6, 2013

Others claim that it’s unproven , unscientific and gets your product to market in a haphazard way that is ungrounded in quality. They didn’t validate their business model before investing so much in it and under-estimated the “last mile” problem. Real world example: WebVan vs Zappos. Contrast this to Zappos.

Lean

Lean Startup Continuous Deployment Open Source

Four myths about the Lean Startup

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 18, 2010

What differentiates them is their disciplined approach to determining when to spend money: after the fundamental elements of the business model have been empirically validated. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Many lean startups are ambitious and are able to deploy large amounts of capital.

Lean

Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment Startup

What is a startup?

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 21, 2010

Many startups don’t innovate at all in the product dimension, but use other kinds of innovation: repurposing an existing technology for a new use, devising a new business model that unlocks value that was previously hidden, or even simply bringing a product or service to a new location or set of customers previously underserved.

San Francisco

San Francisco Startup Lean Continuous Deployment

Some IPO speculation

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2010

We have to continually invent new categories of products, new platforms, and new business models – all extremely risky bets. Comprehensive means it has to address all aspects of a startups life: marketing and product development, especially. We can’t just diversify across industries or geographies.

IPO

IPO San Francisco Lean Silicon Valley

Introducing the Lean Startup Cohort subscription program

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

In particular, we would cover customer development, continuous deployment, minimum viable product, and actionable metrics. I love the business model. "Lean Startups" just jumped the shark and became consultingware, like "agile" did. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

Lean

Lean Programming San Francisco Continuous Deployment

Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 16, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, August 16, 2010 Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium (Normally, I do not write about companies that are doing a marketing launch. Second, their story illustrates a key Lean Startup idea: proving the business in micro-scale. Eric] The marketing launch for SlideShares Pro accounts is today.

San Francisco

San Francisco Lean Analytics Continuous Deployment

Last chance to register for The Lean Startup at HP on May 21

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 17, 2009

Identify a profitable business model faster and cheaper than your competitors. Continuously discover what customers want to buy before building or making follow-on investments in new features. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets.

Lean

Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment DC

10 years of entrepreneurship

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

No business model, either. All my products and ideas focus on early cash and a business model that works from the first day. So, the idea of starting without a business model is good ? It doesn't matter what business model you have thought about, in the early day. And Google?

San Francisco

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC

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Tesla and Adobe: Why Continuous Deployment May Mean Continuous Customer Disappointment

Lessons Learned: The lean startup

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Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Fear is the mind-killer

Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Embrace technical debt

Business ecology and the four customer currencies

It's a startup, not a spreadsheet

Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Austin: the Lean Startup tour continues

Lessons Learned: Don't launch

Lessons Learned: When NOT to listen to your users; when NOT to.

Lessons Learned: Refactoring yourself out of business

The Lean Entrepreneur is here

Do lean startup principles have a place in the enterprise?

Four myths about the Lean Startup

What is a startup?

Some IPO speculation

Introducing the Lean Startup Cohort subscription program

Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium

Last chance to register for The Lean Startup at HP on May 21

10 years of entrepreneurship

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