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Lessons Learned: Inc Magazine on Minimum Viable Product (and a.

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 19, 2009 Inc Magazine on Minimum Viable Product (and a response) Inc Magazine has a great new piece up about the increasing use of the Minimum Viable Product by businesses (and not just startups). Read the rest. For that, release early, release often will suffice.

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A real Customer Advisory Board

Startup Lessons Learned

They assume that each person on the team is genuinely interested in testing their work and ideas against the reality of what customers want. Anyone who has worked in a real-world product development team can tell you how utopian that sounds. One example is having a real Customer Advisory Board.

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Startup Tools

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AgileZen – project management visually see and interact with your work Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.

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Innovation inside the box

Startup Lessons Learned

Why was a team this smart, this disciplined, and this committed to waste-free product development creating so much waste? Labels: split-test Innovation inside the box I was recently privy to a product prioritization meeting in a relatively large company. More importantly, the experience led to some soul-searching.

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The curse of prevention

Startup Lessons Learned

► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

I place them roughly in this order: Movies > Television > Books > Music > Magazines > Radio > Newspapers Each industry is watching the one in front of it sink into the quicksand. When I reviewed a recent product development book, it immediately shot up to Amazon sales rank 300. My blog has over 14000 subscribers, for example.

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Lo, my 2295 subscribers, who are you?

Startup Lessons Learned

Thanks to those of you who were willing to fill out the survey, I learned my net promoter score (about 25) as well as some clear other segmentation insights: about 80% of you are founders of or work at a startup, you read many of the same other blogs, and many of you would like to engage with Lessons Learned in formats and venues beyond this blog.