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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 8, 2008 The lean startup Ive been thinking for some time about a term that could encapsulate trends that are changing the startup landscape. After some trial and error, Ive settled on the Lean Startup. I like the term because of two connotations: Lean in the sense of low-burn.

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Lessons Learned: Combining agile development with customer development

Startup Lessons Learned

XP and Scrum don’t have much to say - they punt. Ever since that time, I have struggled to explain how the feedback loop in customer development should interface with the feedback loop in product development. What causes projects like this to fail in traditional software development is that the solution is unknown.

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The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: part three

Startup Lessons Learned

When youve mastered that, consider adding operations, customer service, marketing, product management, business development - the idea is that when the team needs to get approval or support from another department, they already have an "insider" who can make it happen. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May.