Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 22, 2008 Thoughts on scientific product development I enjoyed reading a post today from Laserlike (Mike Speiser), on Scientific product development. I agree with the less is more product development approach, but for a different reason. Now that is fun.

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APRIL 3, 2019

There was this, too: Our opening video that gave away all the secrets of growing…growth: [This post contains video, click to play]. Have the interview on video and record it (with permission). Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are used for image and video recognition. CXL Live is an experience. What’s different?

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 23, 2012

While there is a great deal of appreciation for the power of metrics/data, I've come to realize that Sr. Leaders don't quite appreciate the deep, and often corrosive, consequences of choosing metric x over metric y as a key performance indicator (KPI). It is a standard metric. Don't believe me?

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 25, 2011

If you somehow missed SLLCONF 2010 , you can get caught up with a complete video recording here.) And this year, we’re going to talk not just about business and product development, but we’ll be exploring one of the Lean Starutp movements next big frontiers: the role of design. No BS, no vanity metrics, no launches, no PR.

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APRIL 29, 2013

1) Can you tell me more about your audience? Eric has talked often about recognizing a startup as an organization designed to create a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty. You can give advice about applying Lean Startup ideas to business areas other than product development.

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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.

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MARCH 25, 2010

(for Harvard Business Review) Over at Harvard Business Review, Ive been building up a series designed to introduce the Lean Startup methodology to a business-focused audience. This is the first post that moves into making specific process recommendations for product development. Labels: product development Speed up or slow down?

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 2, 2020

” And companies are catching on: from the Good News Movement to John Krasinski’s positive videos on YouTube , brands are sharing content that spreads empathy and a sense of community. Another common mistake that marketing teams are making is using the same metrics for success that they have used in the past. corporations.

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APRIL 3, 2018

Embed blog videos hosted on facebook so you can track consumption and advertise to them. it will never be as easy or affordable to build Messenger audience for your brand as it is right now. it will never be as easy or affordable to build Messenger audience for your brand as it is right now. Is my audience all the same?

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DECEMBER 3, 2018

Netflix had barely started experimenting with online video. By shifting the focus away from basic educational content and toward high-level inspirational concepts, Zuora inspired the elite and discerning audience it intended to sell to—CEOs, founders, and executives. Spotify was in its infancy. It created powerful network effects.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

In a startup, both the problem and solution are unknown, and the key to success is building an integrated team that includes product development in the feedback loop with customers. 2008 09 06 Eric Ries Haas Columbia Customer Development Engineering View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. Sure, Id be delighted to.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 2, 2010

Five Whys has its origins in the Toyota Production System. Ive written about this before in some detail, but this was an opportunity to try and frame it for a general business audience. Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable Beware of Vanity Metrics For Startups, How Much Process Is Too Much? Speed up or slow down?

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 7, 2010

At least, not in the traditional sense of trying to squeeze every tenth of a point out of a conversion metric or landing page. In fact, the curse of product development is that sometimes small things make a huge difference and sometimes huge things make no difference. For example, I’m a big believer in split-testing.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

The application of agile development methodologies which dramatically reduce waste and unlock creativity in product development. See Customer Development Engineering for my first stab at articulating the theory involved) Ferocious customer-centric rapid iteration, as exemplified by the Customer Development process.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Another great way to test your idea is to create a minimum viable product, or MVP. This is the simplest version of your product minus the frills and frosting. It’s a particularly popular strategy in the world of product development and is used to quickly and quantitatively test a product or a product feature.

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Up and Running

JULY 26, 2016

1x hacker in charge of product/development. 1x hipster working with both product and growth. This is when metrics come into play. See Also: The Top 10 Tools for Tracking Your Web Metrics. Our onboarding consists of over 200 different emails based on our audiences, and we continue to improve it every week.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

In this post I hope to talk about how to do it well, in terms appropriate for both audiences. In my experience, the majority of changes we made to products have no effect at all on customer behavior. Focus on the output metrics of that part of the product, and you make the problem a lot more clear.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2010

Sean Murphy has an excellent and comprehensive roundup of resources about the conference: all of the slides, videos, summaries, notes and write-ups are listed on his blog here. All video from the conference is available for free at Justin.tv You are the ones that consistently blew the audience away.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Customer personas are often talked about in marketing and product design, but they’re almost never done well. This post contains video, click to play]. Step 2: Write your survey and send it to your audience. Plan your audience in this step. Step 2: Write your survey and send it to your audience.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

► April (11) Video update on the Startup Visa Act Lean Enterprise Institute webinar, April 28 Four myths about the Lean Startup Sneak preview, KISSmetrics (and more) Sneak preview, Grockit The Lean Startup Intensive at Web 2.0 Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you? Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Every board meeting, the metrics of success change. Their product definition fluctuates wildly – one month, it’s a dessert topping, the next it’s a floor wax. And what of the product development team? In other words, they have learned to grow renewable audiences. Go on an agile diet quickly.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

If you watch the video/audio below, youll get to see some of the questions I was asked after my presentation. I did my best to capture video and audio; a YouTube playlist and Slideshare slidecast are below: Slides (with audio): 2009 08 19 The Lean Startup TechStars Edition View more presentations from Eric Ries.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Its inspired by the classic OODA Loop and is really just a simplified version of that concept, applied specifically to creating a software product development team. There are three stages: We start with ideas about what our product could be. Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you?

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Expo to explain the lean startup concept to a larger audience. The Lean Startup: a Disciplined Approach to Imagining, Designing, and Building New Products.: Im looking for a few people to run ideas by, give feedback, and generally help craft ideas so that they can have the biggest impact on this audience. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Another thought would be to outline who the intended audience for your blog is and the topic areas you will focus on. As a shoestring entrepreneur with a SaaS (well, not really, but sort of) offering that we present to very large companies (think 10K+), I love your common sense suggestions about metrics and testing. Hacker News 3.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

► April (11) Video update on the Startup Visa Act Lean Enterprise Institute webinar, April 28 Four myths about the Lean Startup Sneak preview, KISSmetrics (and more) Sneak preview, Grockit The Lean Startup Intensive at Web 2.0 Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you? Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 9, 2009

dalelarson : "Metrics are people, too." leanstartup ericnsantos : #w2e #leanstartup Metrics should be Actionable, Accessible and Auditable. Metrics are a key questions startups face. Metrics are people too" is a reminder I constantly needed when I was a manager. ericries s talk on Lean Startups absolutely fantastic.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 2, 2010

This is just like a startup to me, complete with distribution and product development challenges, ecosystem design and many, many customers. Im just starting the publishing process that should lead to a book for a general business audience in 2011. My realization for 2010 is that Im already in the game. Writing a book.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 5, 2008

► April (11) Video update on the Startup Visa Act Lean Enterprise Institute webinar, April 28 Four myths about the Lean Startup Sneak preview, KISSmetrics (and more) Sneak preview, Grockit The Lean Startup Intensive at Web 2.0 Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you? Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

Despite all the energy invested in talking to authors about the size of their platform, very few gatekeepers have a rigorous set of metrics for measuring it. When I reviewed a recent product development book, it immediately shot up to Amazon sales rank 300. In other words, what is the minimum viable product ?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

► April (11) Video update on the Startup Visa Act Lean Enterprise Institute webinar, April 28 Four myths about the Lean Startup Sneak preview, KISSmetrics (and more) Sneak preview, Grockit The Lean Startup Intensive at Web 2.0 Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you? Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

(For more on earlyvangelists and why they are so important, see Steve Blanks The Four Steps to the Epiphany ) Heres the suggestion from Seth Godin I want to emphasize: And heres one thing Id do on a regular basis: Get a video camera or perhaps a copy machine and collect comments and feedback from the people who matter most to your business.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Own the development methodology - in a traditional product development setup, the VP Engineering or some other full-time manager would be responsible for making sure the engineers wrote adequate specs, interfaced well with QA, and also run the scheduling "trains" for releases. Labels: product development 15comments: mukund said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

I am convinced one of Joel Spolskys lasting contributions to the field of managing software teams will turn out to be the Joel Test , a checklist of 12 essential practices that you could use to rate the effectiveness of a software product development team. He wrote it in 2000, and as far as I know has never updated it. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Beware The Need for Critical Mass I’m going to lead with a quote from Seth on this one: “Failing for small audiences is a loud cue that you will fail even bigger with big audiences.&# Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you? Expo SF (May. Want to learn more about me?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

► April (11) Video update on the Startup Visa Act Lean Enterprise Institute webinar, April 28 Four myths about the Lean Startup Sneak preview, KISSmetrics (and more) Sneak preview, Grockit The Lean Startup Intensive at Web 2.0 Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you? Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

Turns out, what customers really meant was "let me use IMVU with somebody I dont know" so they could get a feel for the social features of the product without incurring the social risk of recommending it to their friend. Luckily, the metrics helped us figure out the difference. Lets run a thought experiment. Expo SF (May.

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