Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 25, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, March 25, 2009 The Lean Startup at Agile Vancouver April 21st A surprising number of respondents in the latest Lessons Learned survey hail from one of the flourishing startup hubs in Canada. Please register to attend this event as space will be limited. Labels: events 4comments: Simon said.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 27, 2011

This startup search process is the business model / customer development / agile development solution stack. When founders discover their assumptions are wrong, as they inevitably will, the result isn’t a crisis , it’s a learning event called a pivot — and an opportunity to update the business model.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 20, 2023

2- Be real Photo Credit: Bex Harris When I started my business in 2016, I was told repeatedly “Fake it till you make it” by many people in the events and hospitality industry who thought they were providing sound advice. Thanks to Bex Harris, On Brand Events ! #3- Thanks to Brian David Crane, Spread Great Ideas ! #2-

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 6, 2013

I've embedded the flyer for the event below, but the best way to see what we're doing is on the conference website - which we try to keep up-to-date with the inevitable flurry of last-minute changes. JOIN THE BIGGEST TECH EVENT @SXSW, featuring. 1,000 startup founders, investors, and press!

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 18, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 18, 2010 Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases non-events The following is a case study of one entrepreneurs transition from a traditional development cycle to continuous deployment. I also identified a set of events that would indicate something terribly going wrong (e.g.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

The solution is to establish and maintain a culture and processes that don’t view change as a discrete event to be spotted and managed, but as an ongoing opportunity to improve competitiveness. Increase change agility. It starts at the top with the founder and CEO, but has to extend quickly to the bottom of the organization.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, July 9, 2010 Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# theory of management At any given time, something like four percent of the US population is engaged in some form of new-company-creation. Are we solving the right problem? We can do better by focusing on process instead of personality.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 21, 2012

He is a frequent speaker at trade and industry events. Startup Feedback Panelist Tony has participated on many panels where he can provide real-time feedback to startup founders. What parts Agile addresses and the big problems with Agile for early-stage startups? Tony has a Ph.D. How do you know if you may have issues?

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 7, 2013

After getting up at 5, having a delightful run at 6, walking Brooks, and then hanging with Amy for four minutes, I got in my car and drove over to Rally Software for their Big 1% Give Back event. Part of that vision became the agile software development products that Rally makes. But Ryan’s vision was always bigger than that.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

He is a serial entrepreneur and founder of several successful startups, as well as a consultant to some of the world’s largest organizations. Separate the event from your reaction, and be accountable for your own feelings. Suppress you own emotions and feelings. Stay positive and believe in yourself.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 30, 2012

The class teaches founders how to dramatically reduce their failure rate through the combination of business model design, customer development and agile development using the Startup Owners Manual. It doesn’t take equity and just has a small fee that varies by city ($140 to $299), to cover event operations and expenses.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 3, 2017

by Bill Lewis, co-founder at Temasys Communications. Just less than a decade ago there was a cataclysmic change – a major event, a crisis – that was a precursor to an even greater structural shift. Newcomers have agility, speed to market, and – often – innovation on their side. Global trade dipped in 2008.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

But the thing I am most proud of about Rob is that he has taken a company with a uniquely talented founder & CTO – Nick Halstead – and managed to build a very tight working relationship with Nick where we drive world-class product development without having the usual founder / CEO conflicts. The Agile Board.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2022

Hawkes, as the Founder of Growth River consulting, speaks from his experience helping to create high performance organizations around the world. I would caution you that there will always be events, such as disruptive new technologies , that cannot be predicted. I encourage you to keep your team focus on targets credible today.

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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.

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Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2021

Cases and plans are useful for teaching managers of process, not founders. Founders of startups (and new ventures inside existing companies) are searching for product/market fit and a repeatable and scalable business model. Lean-driven (hypothesis testing/business model/customer development/agile engineering). experiential.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 2, 2010

As start-ups scale, this agility will be lost unless the founders maintain a consistent investment in that discipline. As start-ups scale, this agility will be lost unless the founders maintain a consistent investment in that discipline. Techniques from lean manufacturing can be part of a startups innovation culture.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 25, 2011

It may be hard to remember that there was a time when people in the agile software development community thought Lean Startup was incompatible with agile practices. But along with Intuit founder Scott Cook, Brad is a leader that recognizes that entrepreneurship is critical to his company’s success.

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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. You can also download our presentation, " Just-In-Time Scalability: Agile Methods to Support Massive Growth." Expo SF (May. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

In addition to presenting the IMVU case, we tried for the first time to do an overview of a software engineering methodology that integrates practices from agile software development with Steves method of Customer Development. Ive attempted to embed the relevant slides below. What about a hardware business with some long-lead-time components?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 12, 2019

The solution is to establish and maintain a culture and processes that don’t view change as a discrete event to be spotted and managed, but as an ongoing opportunity to improve competitiveness. Increase change agility. It starts at the top with the founder and CEO, but has to extend quickly to the bottom of the organization.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

I’ve also authored a fiction novel, “ Some Things are Never Forgiven “ I’m a regular speaker at conferences, trade shows, corporate events and conventions. The post [Interview] Dr. Chuck Bamford, Author, Educator, And Founder Of Bamford Associates, LLC appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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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. This speeds up the Ideas-Code-Data feedback loop.

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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. Instead, we do everything possible to validate the founders belief. We dont just abandon the vision of the company at every turn.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 14, 2021

Given that the product may still be in development, the marketer also needs to be agile and ready to respond to unexpected obstacles with an early startup marketing strategy. His experience includes developing a marketing strategy, producing events, public relations, strategic planning, investment opportunities and crisis management.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 2, 2008

Its to everyones advantage to let the world think the founders thought of everything. I say this as a founder: the contribution of founders is always overestimated. The danger here is that new founders, looking at existing founders, will think that theyre supermen that one couldnt possibly equal oneself.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2019

He is a serial entrepreneur and founder of several successful startups, as well as a consultant to some of the world’s largest organizations. Separate the event from your reaction, and be accountable for your own feelings. Suppress you own emotions and feelings. Stay positive and believe in yourself.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

For the next two weeks, I'm going to do as many events, interviews, and talks as I physically can. However BEFORE WE CONTINUE with the list of events, can I ask just one favor? The first day kicks off with two corporate events, one at Amazon (in their Fishbowl series) and one at Microsoft. Ries wants to show you how.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 30, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, July 30, 2009 Techstars brings The Lean Startup to Boulder Im very excited to announce a pair of events that will kick off a very busy fall speaking tour. The event will include a talk from Eric on The Lean Startup over dinner, followed by moderated table discussion and then final Q&A with Eric.

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2014

First, college graduations fall in the category of “life cycle” events. At some major events– your birth and death for example, while you may be the center of attention, the events are managed by others and are more important to the people around you. . ——-. We were there to celebrate with and for them.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 24, 2013

It’s easy to be intimidated by established companies with decades of experience, especially when the founders are twenty years your senior. You are also agile, up on current trends, and open to new ideas. Even if the event attire is business casual, leave the jeans in the closet. It’s a lot easier for you to avoid the iceberg.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2008

Eventually, I hope to get them on a full agile diet, with TDD, scrums, sprints, pair programming, and more. I went through some of this in bringing agile methodologies to my current firm - except that I am the product manager in question at this case. October 6, 2008 12:17 AM r& said. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. Stevey's Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile Learning from Obama: maneuver warfare on the campa. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, September 10, 2008 Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your code right now Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your code right now A great checklist of techniques and tools for making your development more agile, written from a Rail perspective. Expo SF (May.

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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. Facebook Fans Recent & Upcoming Events 2010 I am experimenting with using Plancast to track my 2010 event schedule.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

It should be even more important to the founders themselves, because it demonstrates that their business hypothesis is grounded in reality. These founders have not managed, to borrow a phrase from Steve Blank , to create a scalable and repeatable sales process. Go on an agile diet quickly. More on that in a moment.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2010

I am grateful to everyone who helped make this event a success, especially my co-organizers Charles Hudson and David Sachs. I am grateful to everyone who helped make this event a success, especially my co-organizers Charles Hudson and David Sachs. All video from the conference is available for free at Justin.tv Expo SF (May.

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