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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 8, 2008 The lean startup Ive been thinking for some time about a term that could encapsulate trends that are changing the startup landscape. After some trial and error, Ive settled on the Lean Startup. Of course, many startups are capital efficient and generally frugal.

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 30, 2008 What does a startup CTO actually do? But I dont think most startups really have a need for someone to do that on a full time basis. In my mind, theyre racking up costs (one month for that part, two months for that other part, uh oh). Massive proprietary databases?

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Lessons Learned: Using AdWords to assess demand for your new.

Startup Lessons Learned

It was one of those brilliant startup brainstorms that comes to the team in a flash, with a giant thunderclap. We had endless arguments internally about what features it should include, how the avatars should look, and how much it should cost. Dont worry about selecting particularly good keywords, if youre new to SEM.

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Lessons Learned: Just-In-Time Scalability

Startup Lessons Learned

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. Labels: agile , continuous deployment 1 comments: timothyfitz said. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

Startup Lessons Learned

The basic idea is to extend agile, which excels in situations where the problem is known but the solution is unknown, into areas of even greater uncertainty, such as your typical startup. Can this methodology be used for startups that are not exclusively about software? Talk about waste.

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Lessons Learned: A new version of the Joel Test (draft)

Startup Lessons Learned

I have been thinking a lot about what a new version of this test would look like, given what Ive seen work and not work in startups. but I have not seen that dysfunction in any of the startups I advise, so hopefully its behind us. For more on continuous deployment, see Just-in-time Scalability. Youd better.

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Waves of technology platforms

Startup Lessons Learned

I was building a new startup in 1999, and wanted to do it right. That startup didnt turn out so well, but not for lack of technology. It cost us a few hundred thousand dollars to get our app up and running, but none of that was dollars spent on software licenses or professional services. Looking back, that was a special moment.