SoCal CTO

APRIL 2, 2013

I'm presenting Making Sure You Are Ready to Begin Building Your MVP next week at Coloft ( Details/Registration ). Don't be fooled by a Common Misunderstanding in Agile Software Development. Have you looked through Things You May Have Forgot in Your MVP and provided answers to these? Correct your course quickly.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, November 6, 2008 Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile I thought Id share an interesting post from someone with a decidedly anti-agile point of view. Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile : "Google is an exceptionally disciplined company, from a software-engineering perspective.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 4, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, April 4, 2010 Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Kent Beck will give the opening keynote at the Startup Lessons Learned conference on April 23. Labels: sllconf Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Kent Beck will give the opening keynote at the Startup Lessons Learned conference on April 23.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2019

They present a convincing story that every entrepreneur has the same potential, but most get sidetracked and bogged down by their technology, competitors, and internal organization. Incorporate AI-powered data and metrics systems. My simple answer is that they keep their focus on customers, rather than technology.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 26, 2019

The team presentations are at the end of this post. The class was unique in that it was 1) team-based, 2) experiential, 3) lean-driven (hypothesis testing/business model/customer development/agile engineering). It’s the same, but different. We just finished the 8 th annual Lean LaunchPad class at Stanford. Class Velocity/Depth.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 21, 2012

Over the past several years, I've done lots of presentations around a wide variety of topics. Many of the factors are not obvious and include building mystery to drive margin, why boring B2B companies often win but are challenging in other ways, how bootstrapping wins, integrating metrics from the start and many other similar lessons.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, November 4, 2008 Principles of Lean Startups, presentation for Maples Investments Image via Wikipedia Steve Blank and I had the opportunity to create a presentation about lean startups for Maples Investments. Agile software development. This speeds up the Ideas-Code-Data feedback loop.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

The most evident and present danger that startups face amid the pandemic is decreasing investment. Pivoting only works if a business is small and agile and can shift its operations quickly and flawlessly in a different direction. What we should have learned is that businesses need to be more agile in their construction.

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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. Combining agile development with customer developm. And when did there get to be 3000 of you?

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Army’s Rapid Equipping Force on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan finding and deploying technology solutions against agile insurgents. It also requires that they think through compatibility, scalability and deployment long before this gets presented to engineering. Newell ran the U.S.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 24, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, March 24, 2009 The metrics and levers of engagement, presentation on Engagement Loops for Facebook Developer Garage SF Ill be presenting a talk at the Facebook Developer Garage SF Wednesday evening. You can learn more about the event here. Its hosted by Kontagent and sponsored by Intel.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2019

You stop focusing on presenting “numbers” and present information. There are tons of metrics you can monitor: Conversion rate; Bounce rate ; Click-through rate ; Pageviews; Lead captures; Purchase conversion rate. Setting up your experiments for success: Define success metrics. Surveys don’t suck, but most surveys suck.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 4, 2020

You do CX a disservice if you focus only on metrics like NPS. Start by researching your options on Google and follow the paths presented to you. waterfall, agile , etc.)? waterfall, agile, etc.)? agile vs. waterfall) you plan to implement, alongside how you’ll educate and increase the focus on CX throughout the business.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 6, 2013

Once again, along with my partners at 500 Startups, we are proud to present the most substantive track at SXSW: [link] There was a running joke last year that "the Lean Startup track was the only place at SXSW you couldn't get out of the building." We're back!

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2017

Every company needs to track their progress and measure results – establish metrics to understand how much and how effectively their workplaces are being transformed and compete. This means that both you and your company need to be more agile, more open and willing to learn, and rethink your focus on the future versus the present.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 25, 2021

In line with this, HR leaders will have to remain agile, forging culture-based connections when they can while still preserving the structure of the business. No one can predict the future, but we can see many of these trends already developing in the present. The Gig Economy: Here to Stay? The transformation is already unfolding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

In a new book, “ The Leadership Capital Index ,” Dave Ulrich, a best-selling author, business consultant, and business school professor, provides some real insights and metrics on what makes up the elements of goodwill in the minds of top valuation experts. I have paraphrased his key points here as follows: Leader personal impact.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Prescriptive analytics The digital analytics metrics you need to know How to use analytics to improve marketing campaigns Define your mission, goals, and KPIs Set key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure marketing performance What to look for in a digital analytics product 9 tools for your digital analytics stack 1. Descriptive analytics.

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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. Second, we’re presenting something unusual for an entrepreneurship conference: the CEO of a Fortune 1000 company. No BS, no vanity metrics, no launches, no PR.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 19, 2019

Here’s what went down inside the presentation hall. Set targets: metrics to tackle the overarching goal for your product lifecycle. We need a metric or KPI that shows how good we are at increasing the likelihood that someone will convert in the future. Agile teams usually focus on efficiency. Conversion rate?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Master of 500 Hats: Startup Metrics for Pirates (SeedCamp 2008, London) This presentation should be required reading for anyone creating a startup with an online service component. 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. Expo SF (May.

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Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2021

With Lean LaunchPad, we were going to toss teaching the business plan aside and try to teach students a completely new, hands-on approach to starting companies – one which combines customer development, agile development, business models and pivots. Lean-driven (hypothesis testing/business model/customer development/agile engineering).

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ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2018

Corporate Agility. Transparency correlates to agility (Does your CEO know how many tests you ran last month?). Work hard to define meaningful product metrics – enabler of team success. gyalif great presentation about AI #CXLLive pic.twitter.com/L4b7pqIl6o. Culture of Innovation. Continuous Optimization. Engagement.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 3, 2015

See the presentation here.). The disadvantage is that its methodology was based on the old waterfall model of product development and not the agile and lean methods that startups use today. It taught lean theory ( business model design , customer development and agile engineering) and practice. Today the U.C.

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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. Steve Blank was very impressed by this presentation and mentioned it when he spoke at TiE on Wed-Sep-19.

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TechEmpower

OCTOBER 9, 2023

This presents businesses with an opportunity to enhance their search functionalities for both internal and external users. Precision and Recall Metrics: Define a process to assess the precision (the relevance of retrieved documents) and the recall (how many of the relevant documents were fetched). Strive for a balanced outcome.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 3, 2009

In a lot of cases, this requires a lot of energy invested in talking to customers or metrics and analytics. Without further ado, the video: Slides are below: Minimum Viable Product View more presentations from Eric Ries. Refreshing to finally see lean and agile thinking emerge in product/business-floors and not only in technology.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 5, 2021

Similarly, many new businesses emerging in the modern world begin with a remote work model; it makes financial sense for young, cash-strapped businesses to save money and remain agile. Heading back to the office will present some challenges of its own, especially if you don’t currently have an office to go back to. Consider: .

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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. Chris and I had the opportunity to present on our approach this past spring at the MySQL Conference. Labels: agile , continuous deployment 1 comments: timothyfitz said.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 29, 2021

The year 2021 has presented a lot of business opportunities for us and we have successfully established our workflow and protocols. It's important to keep business agile. One of the key metrics of success in Real Estate is having a large market share. Thanks to Wes Marlan, Lighthouse Web Design, Inc ! #2- 2- Scaling up.

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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. Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable Beware of Vanity Metrics For Startups, How Much Process Is Too Much? Start-ups supposedly dont have time for detailed processes and procedures. Speed up or slow down?

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

I also want to explain that it is possible to have a truly agile work environment based on small, autonomous teams. Further feature development does not slow down the development process but as extra information is derived from live metrics, a/b testing becomes possible and the whole game needs to be operated. Being agile.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 9, 2009

Thats the essence of so many of the lean startup techniques Ive evangelized: customer development , the Ideas/Code/Data feedback loop , and the adaptation of agile development to the startup experience. Creating a company-wide feedback loop that incorporates both customer development and agile development is a challenge.

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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

APRIL 21, 2011

All the teams were showing us what agile looked like, but this week several would remind us what focused and relentless really meant. The Nine Teams Present. Take a look at their presentations and you decide – what should they do? Parts one through five are here , Syllabus is here. Week 6 of the class. Two weeks to go.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 30, 2009

This is why agility is such a prized quality in product development. Departments were built and were even metrics-driven. But there was no feedback loop to help the company find the right metrics to focus on. Labels: agile , customer development 5comments: William Pietri said. Even a great architecture becomes inflexible.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

By being so metrics driven we can have a lot more quantifiable and objective discussions at board meetings and at mid-point reviews. . The Agile Board. Presenting at Meetings without Going Down a Rathole (this was written for VC pitches but many lessons apply). Further Reading. I cranked this out pretty quickly.

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