Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 30, 2009

Brad Feld also had some thoughts on this event on his blog. During the same period (1987 – 1990) and I did some work at MIT under Eric von Hippel on “user driven innovation with regard to software development&# which today would probably fall under the heading of “open source software development approaches.&#

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OCTOBER 4, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, October 4, 2008 About the author ( Update January, 2010: This post originally dates from October, 2008 back when I first started writing this blog. I hope you take something of value from this blog. Eric, love the blog. Thanks for your professional blog. So thats me, your author.

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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.

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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. Can this methodology be used for startups that are not exclusively about software? Expo SF (May.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2011

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Design for Continuous Deployment – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link].

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 28, 2009

This builds on a lot of great thinking that has come before, like the agile movements insistence that only the creation of working code counts as progress for a software development team. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, Expo SF (May.

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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." You can tell a lot about a company from their deployment flow. After an hour with a team talking dirty about deployment, youll know. How fast do they iterate?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 16, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, March 16, 2009 Combining agile development with customer development Today I read an excellent blog post that I just had to share. In most agile development systems, there is a notion of the "product backlog" a prioritized list of what software is most valuable to be developed next.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

It is becoming easier and cheaper for companies to bring products to market, leveraging free and open source software , cloud computing, open social data (Facebook, OpenSocial ), and open distribution (AdWords, SEO). Agile software development. Agile allows companies to build higher quality software faster. Expo SF (May.

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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. If they were an unknown web 2.0

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 25, 2009

In keeping with my recent theme of blogging about upcoming events, Im happy to announce that Ill be speaking at Agile Vancouver on April 21. For those of you who subscribe to the blog for substantive content and whatnot, I promise to get back to more regular posts soon. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 27, 2009

It uses principles of agile software development, open source and web 2.0, I asked him to reserve a seat or two for blog readers; if youre interested in coming to the event, you need to email him directly and explain why you want to be there. I look forward to following the Startup Lessons Learned blog for more gold.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Lean manufacturing , agile software development , and Theory of Constraints are all examples of this idea in action. Lean manufacturing , agile software development , and Theory of Constraints are all examples of this idea in action. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

Our CTO is the CEO himself, but he lacks the understanding of the new software development processes and the new technologies. In school I was being pounded day and night with anything that has to do with agile software development. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. I am basically a one-man shop.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Even if men have an innate advantage at software development, the gap would have to be massive in order to explain why startup after startup has an all-male team. Even if men have an innate advantage at software development, the gap would have to be massive in order to explain why startup after startup has an all-male team.

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JANUARY 28, 2009

Its an essential discipline of good software development, especially in startups. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Heres a company I met with recently. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 6, 2008

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.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2009

Furthermore, I think most of what you are suggesting is applicable in companies/ industries that are not software development. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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