Agile, Customer Development, Download and Hiring

Lessons Learned: Principles of Lean Startups, presentation for.

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

Boyd emphasized the importance of agility in combat: "the key to victory is to be able to create situations wherein one can make appropriate decisions more quickly than ones opponent." Agile software development. Agile allows companies to build higher quality software faster. Customer development.

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Lessons Learned: Just-In-Time Scalability

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

We wanted an agile approach that would allow us to build our software architecture as we needed it, without downtime, but also without large amounts of up-front cost. After all, the worst kind of waste in software development is code to support a use case that never materializes. Expo SF (May.

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The lean startup @ Web 2.0 Expo (and a call for help)

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

The Lean Startup is a practical approach for creating and managing a new breed of company that excels in low-cost experimentation, rapid iteration, and true customer insight. It uses principles of agile software development, open source and web 2.0, February 9, 2009 7:45 PM Joseph Flahiff said. Check out what I am doing at.

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Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases non-events

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 18, 2010

Recently, he was bitten by the lean startup bug and has started writing about his experiences attempting to apply lean startup and customer development principles. Managing weekly releases got a lot harder once I started doing customer development. The release process took at least half a day and sometimes the whole day.

Continuous Deployment

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Lessons Learned: Work in small batches

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Sounds very similar to agile development which is the way. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Please teach kids programming, Mr. President Work in small batches Continuous deployment with downloads What is a market? (a February 21, 2009 7:39 AM Rocky1138 said.

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Lean Startup fbFund slides and video

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2009

Wow the file is a gig and is going to take 7 hours to download! Could someone reupload to one of the video sites mobileme doesn't seem to be friendly for large files or non-US downloaders. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? July 6, 2009 8:43 PM Eric said.

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Lessons Learned: The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

I usually use a "funnel report" that looks like this: Control Hypothesis A Hypothesis B Registered 1000 (100%) 1000 (100%) 500 (100%) Downloaded 650 (65%) 750 (75%) 200 (40%) Chatted 350 (35%) 350 (35%) 100 (20%) Purchased 100 (10%) 100 (10%) 25 (5%) In this case, you could run the report for any time period. Thanks for writing this article.

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Lessons Learned: Greasemonkey compiler

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 6, 2008

I tried your compiler and it generted the XPI file but when I link to it and click the link it actually downloads the binary into my browser window instead of popping up the Firefox plugin window. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? 2comments: Matthew Quinlan said.

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Lessons Learned: Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you?

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

For example, we used to be baffled at IMVU by the significant minority of people who would download the software but never chat with anyone. Could this be done on mouse focus, commenting amounts, answer percentages, download percentages, etc? The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Continuous deployment with downloads

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 16, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, February 16, 2009 Continuous deployment with downloads One of my goals in writing posts about topics like continuous deployment is the hope that people will take those ideas and apply them to new situations - and then share what they learn with the rest of us. Expo SF (May. Expo (and a call for he.

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Lessons Learned: Please teach kids programming, Mr. President

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? 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? Expo SF (May.

Programming

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

And anytime you strike a deal for digital distribution of any content, insist that your creators be given real-time access to the big-picture metrics: not just downloads, but engagement, retention and replay. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Expo SF (May.

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Lo, my 2295 subscribers, who are you?

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 4, 2009

It connects to the internet to automatically download the necessary codes. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Combining agile development with customer developm. They want to do activities. Expo SF (May. Join the Lean Startup discussion at Web 2.0

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The free software hiring advantage

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, February 11, 2009 The free software hiring advantage This is one of those startup tips Im a little reluctant to share, because its been such a powerful source of competitive advantage in the companies Ive worked with. This approach gives you an edge in hiring. Instead, engage with the project.

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Lessons Learned: Venture Hacks interview: "What is the minimum.

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 23, 2009

Or, perhaps charging doesn't make sense, and offering the PDF as a free download would provide richer learning/discovery. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Combining agile development with customer developm. Happy holidays to you all! Expo SF (May.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup at UC Berkeley Haas School of.

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? 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? Expo SF (May.

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Lessons Learned: You buy virtual goods

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

A downloaded movie is a virtual good; theres really no pure functional value (other than lights and sounds). The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Please teach kids programming, Mr. President Work in small batches Continuous deployment with downloads What is a market? (a

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Lessons Learned: The App Store after the gold rush

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

It is a mystery actually whether the tagging of application as hot/popular has to do with the number of downloads or merely from the usage statistic. Im pretty sure the Top 25 lists are based on downloads, from what Ive seen. Any idea how Apple tracks download statistic? However, this is not the case. I am a little curious here.

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Lessons Learned: Throwing away working code

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 28, 2009

This builds on a lot of great thinking that has come before, like the agile movements insistence that only the creation of working code counts as progress for a software development team. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Expo SF (May. Expo (and a call for he.

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Lessons Learned: Continuous deployment and continuous learning

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

That leads to a seemingly-obvious question: what is progress in software development? Heck, thats what it says right there in the agile manifesto. Labels: agile , continuous deployment , lean startup , product development , Test-driven development 4comments: Nivi said. But it worked. We made it. So can you.

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Good enough never is (or is it?)

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Lean manufacturing , agile software development , and Theory of Constraints are all examples of this idea in action. Lean manufacturing , agile software development , and Theory of Constraints are all examples of this idea in action. However, a commitment to quality alone is not enough. Expo SF (May.

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How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

I downloaded and tried all four of them (because I had time to kill) - and Im still not sure which one was the best. Nevertheless, we are getting healthy downloads, and anecdotal evidence suggests that its often from people just browsing through apps. Do most people know what kind of app they want? Expo SF (May.

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The Ultimate Guide to Starting a Software Company

Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

If you don’t yet have a team yet, list the roles you need to hire for. Also, make a bullet list of the marketing activities that will drive customers to your door. If you don’t yet have a team yet, list the roles you need to hire for. Free Subscription Sales Forecast Template [DOWNLOAD]. Want Customer Loyalty?

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Lessons Learned: SEM on five dollars a day

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

It just answered this question: for any given time range, for the 100% of people who registered in that period, what percentage of them downloaded? That simple funnel analysis became our scorecard, and helped us refine our product with constant customer input. chatted once? chatted five times? bought something? Expo SF (May.

SEM

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Lessons Learned: Q&A with an actual reader

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

Could this be done on mouse focus, commenting amounts, answer percentages, download percentages, etc? There are ways to measure customer behavior in tremendous detail, and in some situations these metrics are important. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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How to Flip Your Startup in 5 Steps

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 27, 2011

Flip startups are agile startups that aim to exit quickly. The idea is to build a hit that would make the founder(s) an appealing and quick talent acquisition (sometimes referred to as an acq-hire). This is lean development without any customer development. Instead, their goal is to create a promising product.

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Web 2.0 Expo session followup

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 1, 2009

I cant figure out how to download the picture so that I can print it and post it to my wall. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Product development leverage Validated learning about customers Built to learn Web 2.0 Thanks so much! am I missing something?

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Lessons Learned: What is a market? (a guide for hackers)

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

It takes advantage of the idea, which I owe to Clayton Christensen , that customers buying a product are really "hiring" it to do a specific "job" for them. Its as if every customer, whether they are an enterprise, a small business, or an individual consumer, is actually an employer who wants to get things done. Remember Java?

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Github - Free public repositories, collaborator management, issue tracking, wikis, downloads, code review, graphs Pivotal Tracker – Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams. Bontq – hosted bug tracking and project management needs.

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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

At IMVU, when wed hire a new engineer, we could get them to ship code to production on their first day, even if they had never programmed in PHP before. Which makes them exactly the kind of programmers companies should want to hire. The IMVU downloadable client, just to name one example, is written primarily in python.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Github -Â Free public repositories, collaborator management, issue tracking, wikis, downloads, code review, graphs. Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. Agile project management. agile product management. Agile eLearning.

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Why The Movie Industry Can’t Innovate and the Result is SOPA

Steve Blank

JANUARY 4, 2012

From sources that the studios at one time claimed would put them out of business: Pay-per view TV, cable and satellite channels, video rentals, DVD sales, online subscriptions and digital downloads. Filed under: Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan , Customer Development. Management of Innovation.

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Lessons Learned: Work in small batches

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Lessons Learned: Greasemonkey compiler

Lessons Learned: Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you?

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Lessons Learned: Please teach kids programming, Mr. President

Marching through quicksand

Lo, my 2295 subscribers, who are you?

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