Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, February 9, 2009 The lean startup @ Web 2.0 Expo to explain the lean startup concept to a larger audience. The Lean Startup: a Disciplined Approach to Imagining, Designing, and Building New Products.: It uses principles of agile software development, open source and web 2.0,

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Afterward, I met the CIO from one of our law firm clients who was in the audience. He also shared that, initially, he was leaning toward building an experience management solution in-house, and that it was only at the insistence of the firm’s CMO that he relented and engaged our firm.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 27, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, May 27, 2009 Austin: the Lean Startup tour continues Next week I head to Austin, TX for my first visit ever. 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.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 25, 2011

The Lean Startup movement has made tremendous progress in the past year. If you recall, around this time last year we were still fighting various myths , such as “ lean means cheap ” or that we don’t support having a big, world-changing vision. This year, the word pivot has become over-hyped ( even on TechCrunch ).

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Identify the audience. On social media, you can pinpoint an audience in real-time. Initially, your staff (even if that’s just you and a co-founder) will be your greatest asset in locating and connecting with your audience. As a startup, you’re working with limited resources and a lean business model.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 22, 2012

Lean Marketing Tips: Blogging to Build Audience and Drive Traffic – [link]. Lean Marketing Tips: Blogging to Build Audience and Drive Traffic – [link]. Lean Marketing Tips: Blogging to Build Audience and Drive Traffic – [link]. The video above is an interesting look at genetics.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. Its a nice complement on the product engineering side to his customer development methodology.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

Of all the tactics I have advocated as part of the lean startup , none has provoked as many extreme reactions as continuous deployment , a process that allows companies to release software in minutes instead of days, weeks, or months. At a recent talk, an audience member asked me about the impact of continuous deployment on morale.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 29, 2012

Ultimately, you’re trying to reach either as broad an audience as possible, or a very loyal and passionate [niche] audience of fans. Brian Fargo, who created Wasteland 2 and [crowdfunded] nearly $3 million, said, “Our software development company all but stopped for three weeks so we could get our ducks in a row.”

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 1, 2013

The 7 Myths of Lean and How Analytics Can Help – [link]. Startups, Throw Out Your Financial Models: The Argument For Lean Modeling | Forbes – [link]. Building an audience for first-time entrepreneurs – [link]. Building an audience for first-time entrepreneurs – [link].

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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. After all, the worst kind of waste in software development is code to support a use case that never materializes. Expo SF (May. for Harvard Business Revie.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Lean Marketing Strategies for Small Businesses and Startups – [link]. Lean Marketing Strategies for Small Businesses and Startups – [link]. Lean Marketing Strategies for Small Businesses and Startups – [link]. Problem is they have no audience, so who’ll pay? – [link]. Magazine apps look cool.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Brian is an independent software developer, entrepreneur and proud Longhorn. I am a software developer by trade, so learning how to manage a rapidly expanding company with no formal business training was, to put it mildly, a trial by fire. One of those entrepreneurs is Brian Moeskau. Boy was I wrong.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 2, 2008 On deployment My favorite question to ask a software development team is "how do you do a release." The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? How fast do they iterate? Expo SF (May.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

There’s a tremendous wealth of insight in his answers and the way he engaged the Reddit audience. Lean vs. Mean – Small Business and Responsibility – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2014

David vs. Goliath: Lean Startup Advantages | OpenView Blog – crowdspring.co/1x2JFtG. Lookalike audiences: the next big thing in marketing? Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Before the Startup – crowdspring.co/1rGYDDQ.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

The problem with a Lean Startup: the Minimum Viable Product | Paul Kortman – [link]. Venture-Backed Commerce Sites Banking on TV Ads to Lure in Audiences | AllThingsD – [link]. Venture-Backed Commerce Sites Banking on TV Ads to Lure in Audiences | AllThingsD – [link]. Barking Up The Wrong Tree – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Small Business Newsletter: 7 habits of successful entrepreneurs, lean marketing and more – [link]. Good reminder on importance of marketing to broad audience & not falling into a trap of marketing only to tech people – [link]. Where the boys are: Women building businesses in male-dominated fields – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Zynga Leans On Some Workers to Surrender Pre-IPO Shares – [link]. Not surprising – Exclusive: Majority of YouTube views from Non-English audience – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. Very shady, if true.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 2, 2012

Why Tech Entrepreneurs in Developing Countries Struggle to Raise Funds – [link]. Kickstart Your Lean Startup With Effective Feedback – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. 30 Creative and Stylish Gothic Fonts – [link].

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Innovid developed the groundbreaking iRoll®, which embeds interactive elements in pre-roll video ads making them dynamic and engaging without forcing audiences away from the page. Kaltura’s commercial software license allows customers and partners to self-host the software behind the firewall for self-use or reselling.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

In other words, you need to make sure your audience is just as excited about the idea as you are. Smoke tests are specifically designed to be run quickly and frequently during the software development stages. What can you build in a 6-week product sprint vs. a 6-month development period?

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 10, 2013

How a 1-Page Business Model Will – and Won’t–Help Your Lean Startup | by Kevin Dewalt – [link]. Men and Hard-to-Reach Audiences Are Spending More Time Streaming Digital Video | Adweek – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link].

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded). PlentyOfFish has 11 million registered users, is the #1 dating site in the UK and Canada and the #2 in the US by audience share. He basically outsources everything.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

I wasn’t a very good software developer, and I was only modestly capable as a UX designer, but I learned enough to recognize clean code and effective, inspiring design when I saw it. Good PMs know how to communicate what they know and believe in a manner that is compelling to whomever is their target audience.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 5, 2010

I narrowed the focus because it allowed me to speak directly to my audience, and to be ultra-specific about tools and approaches instead of copping out and using a stack of generalities that provide little value to the reader. I figure, hey, we make (real, physical, heavy) stuff, I should bone up more on Lean Manufacturing.

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 14, 2010

If you go the lean way, you’ll have to create a MVP: A minimal viable product should not require coding at all. I wouldn’t include software for large enterprises since you are correct – it can be complicated. Your blog (and book) have been a fantastic help and inspiration to me through the process.

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andrewchenblog.com

MARCH 10, 2010

As some commenters have pointed out, there are disciplines that can be adopted and made cultural in a software development organization, where reinvention, or refactoring is an institutional norm. Before one invests in product & technical debt, I believe it's important to fall back upon Steve Blank's advice.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

How to stay lean and iterate quickly while you’re building a two sided marketplace, especially when “network effect” and “critical mass” are the two main focuses? Find a location that has a target rich audience (aka Bar). Warning: Typos, run-on sentences, and crappy formatting. Does the traffic convert?

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

This literally the dumbest, most ignorant piece that I’ve ever read about software development and/or hiring programmers. I also know numerous other programming languages and have worked with many software development platforms over the last 25 years. It was the wrong audience. Look what happened to Gawker.

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