Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

Although Catalyst folded with the dot-com crash, Ries continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com, leading efforts in agile software development and user-generated content. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. While an undergraduate at Yale Unviersity, he co-founded Catalyst Recruiting.

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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. Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Expo SF (May. Bring your questions.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Wed never heard of five whys, and we had plenty of "agile skeptics" on the team. 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? April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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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? By delegating and training, we create a corps of leaders who could step in to provide CTO-like services on demand. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. And what about if deployment takes forever?

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

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? Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2009

In other words, a principled way to combine agility with stability. In other words, you can always invest in process, batch size reduction, and agility as an alternative to preventing a specific problem. In other words, a principled way to combine agility with stability. Many problems are catastrophic only if allowed to fester.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Lean manufacturing , agile software development , and Theory of Constraints are all examples of this idea in action. Or what if the features they demand we build are different from the ones we were planning to build? Lean manufacturing , agile software development , and Theory of Constraints are all examples of this idea in action.

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San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment Software Review 167

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

If I have some budget for outside help, should I hire a vendor to help us drive down our payment fraud rates by 1% (ROI easy to predict), or hire a market research firm to give us insights into potential customers (ROI hard to predict)? Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

As the company grows, hes the go-to person for almost everything technical, and so hes very much in demand. And we cant hire new engineers any faster, because you cant be interviewing and debugging and fixing all at the same time! Even with the highest standards imaginable, theres no way to hire just genius hackers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 2, 2010

Ive been blown away by the level of demand you all have expressed in having a forum for the whole community to come together and share what were learning. My hope is to create a one-day event in San Francisco sometime in the spring. My hope is to create a one-day event in San Francisco sometime in the spring.

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San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 122

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Customers kept demanding that we add this or that IM feature, and we were routinely refusing. We were afraid that this was just the tip of the iceberg, and that once we “gave in&# to these five demands there would be five more, ad infinitum. You can read how well that went in another post here.) Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

As a consumer internet company with millions of customers, it may seem to have little relevancy for an enterprise software company with only a handful of potential customers, or a computer security company whose customers demand a rigorous audit before accepting a new release. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Expo SF (May.

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Continuous Deployment Software Review San Francisco Lean 167

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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Technical Review Software Review San Francisco Lean 168

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2009

" paragraph have the heading "Training New Hires", above the "Returning to the meeting itself." oh, and on the book front, you'll be able to get all of my essays so far in ebook, print-on-demand, and kindle editions - coming soon. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. It's just a thought.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

Other companies accomplish this by hiring a large staff of content production experts - and get a very good result. As a result, we were able to get started more quickly, avoid writing a ton of art path tools from scratch, and even hire from within that community. On-demand utility pricing for services (aka "cloud computing").

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Product Development Developer San Francisco Product 88

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

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? Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Expo SF (May.

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mashable.com

JUNE 11, 2013

Hiring Poorly. Make sure that new hires understand your rate of innovation. You are small and agile, which means you have a high rate of innovation and growth, and with that comes work! If you dont manage this expectation upon hiring, you will be managing employee issues six months down the line. Not Embracing Agility. "If

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

The other revels in the world as we all know it will be someday: limitless distribution enabled by new technologies, the importance of collaborative filters, and on-demand availability of all content for end-users. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Gatekeepers are overloaded. Expo SF (May. Bring your questions.

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San Francisco Lean Technical Review Distribution 113

Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

You may remember Bala’s talk on supply-demand equilibrium at our data-driven marketplace meetup back in May 2017. The reason being is that in most marketplaces, we cannot simply split samples by demand or supply since they are all interdependent. So, by definition, San Francisco and Austin are different zones.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

Periodic or on-demand reports are one possibility, but we can do much better. 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? April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 84

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Obama understood the two concepts that are essential for building a high-performance, highly adaptable, agile organization: 1) rapid iteration and 2) clear values-based objectives. Wed train them on-demand as they came in, and send them into the world (or onto the phones) with written instructions and voter contact data. Expo SF (May.

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Campaign San Francisco Lean Agile 84

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

In other words, the minimum viable product is designed to answer the question: does the product generate enough demand and margin to support a growing ecosystem? In other words, the minimum viable product is designed to answer the question: does the product generate enough demand and margin to support a growing ecosystem? Expo SF (May.

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Customer San Francisco Viral Lean 156

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 11, 2010

High-profile startup Friendster had first-mover advantage in the social networking space, but created openings for competitors when it could not scale to meet demand. High-profile startup Friendster had first-mover advantage in the social networking space, but created openings for competitors when it could not scale to meet demand.

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San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean DC 120

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

A few of the detailed case studies include: Tech legend Bill Gross building an MVP in 1999 to test demand for online car sales, which grew into CarsDirect.com. Struggling to explain the successes and failures of those companies, I discussed principles like continuous deployment, customer development, and a hyper-accelerated form of agile.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Many journalists and conference organizers attempt to fill this demand by giving successful entrepreneurs the opportunity to tell their stories: in magazines, on blogs, and on stage. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Most of the received wisdom about business and entrepreneurship is simply wrong. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

In fact, I am convinced that if you could find some of IMVU’s earliest adopters, they would say something like this: “sure, those guys at IMVU HQ were helpful in writing code and stuff, but in the end they were just the hired help. It was really the community who built that product.&# So I gave up. REALLY NEEDS it IMHO.

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Community Management Lean Software Review 158

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

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? Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Expo SF (May.

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Advertising San Francisco Media Continuous Deployment 60

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. An employer is trying to hire someone for a specific job, and they think they know what that job is. There are four: Existing market. This is applying for an open job req.

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San Francisco Continuous Deployment Ruby Lean 89

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 22, 2008

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? Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Expo SF (May.

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.Net Operations San Francisco Lean 158

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

The fact that the San Francisco Bay Area’s electronics industry began close to the turn of the Twentieth Century should lay to rest the notion that industrialization and urbanization on the scale of Silicon Valley can be quickly induced in other areas. Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online. Expo SF (May.

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Silicon Valley San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 68

www.ere.net

JULY 15, 2012

Even among recruiting leaders, it’s common for them to realize that their hiring process is failing but be unaware of which steps in the process are causing the problem. There are three different FPI approaches that organizations can use to identify the key “failure points” in any hiring process. ™ All Articles. financials.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 19, 2008

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? Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Expo SF (May.

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San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 60

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Update: The end is near, Expensify is hiring a.NET programmer! As you might know, we’re hiring the best programmers in the world. If you are a startup looking to hire really excellent people, take notice of.NET on a resume, and ask why it’s there. Expensify Blog. Expense Reports That Don't Suck. Sjoerd Franken.

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