Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Every board meeting, the metrics of success change. Time-to-complete-a-sale is not a bad metric for validated learning at this stage. Eric, I have Steves book and wish I had it for 1 couple of my earlier startups where the framework would have helped our team get on the same page. Thanks to Twitter, I just discovered your blog.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

Thanks for this post, I was going to buy the book anyway after reading Stevens blog but this post definitely made me get it faster (just ordered). A book I am looking forward to read after reading you blog. I am continuously coaching people to get out and see what is really going on. April 11, 2009 1:22 AM CeeTee said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

This simple three-part framework underlies almost all discussions about technical design today, and it was clearly on display in the recent debates over technical debt. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Commodity: A program should be suitable for the purposes for which it was intended. Thanks for sharing this.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

Personally, the framework Ive found most helpful is MTVs "create, share, validate" feedback loop. Doing the market test required this blog, a SurveyMonkey account and a PayPal account - and nothing else. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Very useful post. A true follower of Wikinomics concepts.

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www.subelsky.com

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Mike Subelskys Blog Wednesday, November 11, 2009 Lean startup tools for Rails apps A few months ago I was invited to dinner with the Geeks on a Plane crew when they stopped in Washington, and had the opportunity to meet one of my heroes, Eric Ries , author of the Startup Lessons Learned blog. We love Cucumber for higher level testing.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

Having had a number of years to try and answer this question at cocktail parties and social gatherings of all kinds, I thought Id try and expand on his framework a little, and then try and use these answers to help make suggestions for those who are trying to get people to buy virtual goods. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 1, 2009

One big idea that I havent had a chance to write about on the blog yet is answering the question "What is a startup?" LIKED: Y startups fail, cont deployment vs waterfall vs agile, small batches & learn fr biz metrics #leanstartup As concise a summary as Ive ever seen. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 22, 2009

Leading up to a pivot, each cycle, despite our best efforts, the metrics werent good enough. Instead of these dead-ends, use the problem and solution team framework and then: pivot, dont jump. thanks for the post, i just discovered this blog recently from one of Steven Blank's post. I am very happy while reading your blog.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2009

In this framework, we’ll tend to either invest in the proposed prevention or do nothing. If we’re practicing continuous deployment, we can be confident that we’ll be able to rush an emergency fix into production without risking introducing further problems. How upset will those customers be?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Know what the success metrics are for the launch. Great blog BTW, adding this to my favourites. OH>>> they can, since i have an ezine and blog, too. Thanks and if there are further advice you can offer start-ups, ill follow this blog keenly to uncover them. March 13, 2009 9:32 PM Postcard Printing said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 16, 2013

But we couldn''t have identified this without having clear metrics (that high bug count) to assess our development process. As Shutterstock has grown, there are a few key elements to our continued development speed: Small, autonomous teams: The more a team can do on their own, the faster they can go.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 1, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, August 1, 2009 The Steve Jobs method Image via CrunchBase Its been a long time since I did a post that was primarily a link to another blog with commentary, but I came across something today that I really want to share. In the meantime, I hope some of you will find the lean startup a helpful framework.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 6, 2008

For example, think of the phases of the synthesis framework: collecting feedback, processing and understanding it, choosing a new course of action. If you ever have the opportunity to remove a feature without impacting the customer experience or business metrics - do it. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

It also has the nice side-effect of driving down the batch size of work, but thats for another post) This framework for making progress evident applies to more than just scheduling, of course. I used to think a giant flat-panel screen that broadcast our companys key metrics would be what was required to get everyone to pay attention to them.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

The second time around however, I went around the internet and read blogs such as yours to see how I can save myself from all the chaos because I knew that at some point I will break and just leave for another company only to find that I will probably have to go through the same thing again!

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DECEMBER 16, 2008

Our goal is to understand the metrics, mechanics, and levers of engagement. Lets look at a specific example, and start to think through what the metrics might look like if we attempted to measure it: Customer gets a synthetic message saying: "upload some photos!" This post has been removed by a blog administrator. Good stuff.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

From e-commerce to blogs to photo galleries, we benefited from tens of thousands of lines of code that had already been battle-tested. PHP can do what no other language or framework can (albeit django). and Rails as a web framework. If youre using big frameworks in PHP, you are almost 100% wrong to be doing so.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

Each experiment is like a little mystery, and if you can get into a mindset of open-mindedness about the answer, the answers will continually surprise and amaze you. A few days ago I open-sourced a framework for split-testing, A/B testing or continous optimization. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

a guide for hackers) (This post was inspired by a conversation with Nivi from Venture Hacks , but is otherwise not his fault) There has been a proliferation of frameworks and metaphors lately that are designed to help startups avoid the all-too-common fatal mistake of failing to find a market. Expo (and a call for he.

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