Remove B2B Remove Finland Remove Metrics Remove Product Development
article thumbnail

The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development

Startup Lessons Learned

While the customer development framework of Four Steps is universally relevant, The Entrepreneur’s Guide updates its practices for modern startups. Four Steps primarily centers its stories and case studies on B2B hardware and software startups. Startup Lessons Learned - the Conference (April 23.

article thumbnail

Continuous deployment for mission-critical applications

Startup Lessons Learned

Or, phrased more hopefully, "I see how you can use continuous deployment to run an online consumer service, but how can it be used for B2B software?" Thats a perfectly reasonable reaction, given that most releases of most products are bad news. Monitoring of real-world metrics. Or variations thereof. Or variations thereof.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

The Lean Startup Workshop - now an O'Reilly Master Class

Startup Lessons Learned

We changed our model to B2B and adopted Agile around 2002. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. May 14, 2009 5:23 AM David said. I joined a financial services tech startup in 1999.

Lean 60
article thumbnail

Case Study: Using an LOI to get customer feedback on a minimum.

Startup Lessons Learned

But other times, the right way to learn is actually to show a product prototype to customers one-on-one. This is especially useful in situations, like most B2B businesses, where the total number of customers is likely to be small. I encourage B2B startups to keep them in their customer development arsenal.

article thumbnail

How to build companies that matter (the lean startup on O'Reilly.

Startup Lessons Learned

Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. Startup Lessons Learned - the Conference (April 23. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, Take a look and let me know what you think.

Lean 68