Community, Continuous Deployment, DC and Hiring

Lessons Learned: Lean hiring tips

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 19, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 19, 2009 Lean hiring tips In preparing for the strategy series panel this week, I have been doing some thinking about costs. And all of that cost was caused by one activity: hiring. Hiring is no different from any other company process. Sounds a little abstract, though, doesnt it?

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Lean Hiring San Francisco Continuous Deployment

Building a new startup hub

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

Ive written a little bit about the origins of Silicon Valley because I think its important for us to understand how we got here in order to make sure we preserve what is best about our community. The companies I spoke to all agreed that the community there was extremely supportive, especially in the critical ulta-early-stage.

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San Francisco Silicon Valley Startup Lean

A real Customer Advisory Board

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 26, 2009

And, as you can see in my previous post on “ The cardinal sin of community management &# the feedback could be all over the map. But we had some super-active customers who would act as editors, collecting feedback from all over the community and synthesizing it into a report of the top issues. It was absolutely worth it.

Advisory Board

Advisory Board Customer San Francisco Lean

Lessons Learned: Product development leverage

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

Other companies accomplish this by hiring a large staff of content production experts - and get a very good result. Most importantly, there is almost no niche or trend that is unserved by this community. When you participate in an open community like these you take advantage of tremendous amounts of effort. Yeah, weve got that.

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Product Development Developer San Francisco Product

Lessons Learned: Please teach kids programming, Mr. President

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

We also learned that law is code , and that leadership was needed to build thriving communities in a digital age. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ▼ 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. Expo (and a call for he.

Programming

Programming San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment

New conference website, speakers, agenda

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 29, 2010

Doesnt the communication overhead of a large team lead to chaos of overlapping experiments and continuously-deployed bugs?" "If My hope for this conference is that it will benefit the global community of entrepreneurs. My hope for this conference is that it will benefit the global community of entrepreneurs.

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San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC

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

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Im open to being the coffee and snack technician :-) On another note, I live in Atlanta and believe that we have a strong enough start-up community that would greatly benefit from your lessons learned. I have contacts within the university and entrepreneurial communities and would be happy to help you set up something if interested.

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Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment Software Review

Datablindness

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

A similar kind of datablindness happened in the US intelligence community in the decades following the launch of photoreconnaissance satellites. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ▼ 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica.

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San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC

Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

Make it easy to “pilot&# new work with a test community of actively engaged readers, and provide a mechanism for measuring the impact of these pilots. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ▼ 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica.

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San Francisco Lean Technical Review Distribution

International tour about to begin

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 14, 2009 International tour about to begin For my international readers: are you in Washington DC, Paris, Barcelona, London, Amsterdam, Malmo, or even Oulu, Finland? DC is actually not a separate country? Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Whats that you say?

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San Francisco DC Finland Washington

Support the Startup Founders Visa with a tweet

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, September 19, 2009 Support the Startup Founders Visa with a tweet Its been an exhilarating first day here in Washington DC for the Geeks on a Plane tour. In fact theyd cause there to be more jobs for Americans, because the companies they started would hire more employees as they grew.

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San Francisco Founder DC Washington

What would you want to tell Washington DC about startups?

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 8, 2009 What would you want to tell Washington DC about startups? Im writing this post from an airplane headed to Washington DC, where Ill be presenting at the Government 2.0 So heres my simple question: What do folks in Washington need to know about the global community of entrepreneurs?

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DC Washington San Francisco SBIR

Testing the new Disqus comment system

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 15, 2009 Testing the new Disqus comment system The recent and overwhelming influx of comments on The cardinal sin of community management. Testing the new Disqus comment system The recent and overwhelming influx of comments on The cardinal sin of community management.

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San Francisco DC Continuous Deployment Lean

The free software hiring advantage

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, February 11, 2009 The free software hiring advantage This is one of those startup tips Im a little reluctant to share, because its been such a powerful source of competitive advantage in the companies Ive worked with. This approach gives you an edge in hiring. Instead, engage with the project.

Software Review

Software Review Software Hiring San Francisco

Gov 2.0 Summit wrap-up

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Summit in Washington DC last week. It may be that it will prove a lot harder to make this point in DC than elsewhere: aptuscollab : Too bad all you #g2s folks got up and left when Eric Ries took the stage. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 15, 2009 Gov 2.0

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San Francisco DC Washington Lean

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (and a request for help)

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ▼ 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, and more ► January (6) Lo, my 18891 subscribers, who are you?

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San Francisco Lean DC Continuous Deployment

Don't be the Ice Cream Glove

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ▼ 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, and more ► January (6) Lo, my 18891 subscribers, who are you?

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San Francisco DC Continuous Deployment Lean

Introducing the Lean Startup Cohort subscription program

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

In particular, we would cover customer development, continuous deployment, minimum viable product, and actionable metrics. In between sessions, this cohort of companies would have the opportunity to act as a learning community, sharing what theyve learned and supporting one another as they try to put the techniques into practice.

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Lean Programming San Francisco Continuous Deployment

Lessons Learned: Three freemium strategies

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 27, 2009

We're keeping ourselves free for the community that has helped us build our product; premium vs basic seems wrong to us. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ▼ 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica.

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San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC

Happy blogiversary (my present: a brand new URL)

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Why Continuous Deployment? * Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ▼ 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. As for top posts we have: * 10.0 Don't launch * 8.9 Embrace technical debt * 8.5 Built to learn * 7.5

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San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean DC

Lo, my 1032 subscribers, who are you?

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 19, 2008

I would recommend periodic surveys, along with some kind of forum or other community tool where the most passionate customers can congregate. Im Community Manager at VenCorps, co-host of commandN. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Either way, Ive been a happy subscriber ever since.

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San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC

Lessons Learned: Employees should be masters of their own time

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 3, 2009

Now he really thought I was nuts, replying "from the recruiter who hired me, of course!" If youre hiring creative, resourceful and smart people (and you are screening for that , right?) post) is very similar, I think the key is to hire smart people first, though. Are you hiring sysadmins? It was my turn to be dumbfounded.

Employee

Employee San Francisco Lean Software Review

Business ecology and the four customer currencies

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

And passionate players are often the backbone of game communities – especially online. We cultivated a passionate community that nurtured a skilled set of developers. And passionate players are often the backbone of game communities – especially online. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

Customer

Customer San Francisco Viral Lean

Three decisions to make on virtual goods

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2008

As the size of your community and economy grows, youll be able to solve them as they arise, as long as you know what to look for. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica.

San Francisco

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC

Lessons Learned: Net Promoter Score: an operational tool to.

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 22, 2008

Theres a lot of controversy surrounding NPS in the customer research community, and I dont want to recapitulate it here. Even if you have a very large community, I dont think this number needs to be higher than 100. In other words, we committed the one cardinal sin of community management. Heres how Ive set it up in the past.

.Net

.Net Operations San Francisco Lean

Towards a new entrepreneurship

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 2, 2010

Do you have a suggestion for a guest speaker or case study that illustrates a particular lean startup concept: minimum viable product, continuous deployment, validated learning, the pivot? Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Even if you cant attend, you can help shape the curriculum.

San Francisco

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC

Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

The number one reason I keep coming back to PHP is that it has overwhelming community support. Ive written elsewhere that success in creating a platform is "becoming a function not of the size and resources of the company that builds it, but of the size of the community that supports it." Lets start with some circular reasoning.

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PHP Software Review Ruby San Francisco

The cardinal sin of community management

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, September 11, 2009 The cardinal sin of community management Once you have a product launched, you will the face the joys – and the despair – of a community that grows up around it. This probably sounds illogical. After all, people rarely say they are mad because they are not being heard.

Community

Community Management Lean Software Review

Learning from Obama: maneuver warfare on the campaign trail

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

We were building a community, open to anyone who shared its values, and that mission inspired volunteers and staff to try and reach out to as many people as possible. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. It would have been pretty easy for the volunteers and supporters to slow down, confident in victory.

Campaign

Campaign San Francisco Lean Agile

StartUpRoar

Lessons Learned: Lean hiring tips

Building a new startup hub

Trending Sources

A real Customer Advisory Board

Lessons Learned: Product development leverage

Lessons Learned: Please teach kids programming, Mr. President

New conference website, speakers, agenda

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

Datablindness

Marching through quicksand

International tour about to begin

Support the Startup Founders Visa with a tweet

What would you want to tell Washington DC about startups?

Testing the new Disqus comment system

The free software hiring advantage

Gov 2.0 Summit wrap-up

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (and a request for help)

Don't be the Ice Cream Glove

Introducing the Lean Startup Cohort subscription program

Lessons Learned: Three freemium strategies

Happy blogiversary (my present: a brand new URL)

Lo, my 1032 subscribers, who are you?

Lessons Learned: Employees should be masters of their own time

Business ecology and the four customer currencies

Three decisions to make on virtual goods

Lessons Learned: Net Promoter Score: an operational tool to.

Towards a new entrepreneurship

Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

The cardinal sin of community management

Learning from Obama: maneuver warfare on the campaign trail

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