Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 29, 2010

Each part of the program is organized around one phase of the Build-Measure-Learn feedback loop and begins with a keynote address from a heavy hitter: Steve Blank on Customer Development, Randy Komisar on "Getting to Plan B" and - a third person, not-yet-announced-but-extremely-cool-trust-me. Is design important to lean startups?

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APRIL 14, 2009

This is an incredible skill, one that most engineers overlook. For more on how this plays into the process of scaling up, see the Customer Creation stage of the customer development model.) But in the meantime, by iterating on their product with customers, they have a chance to get there on their own.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

There are a lot of advantages to piloting, but the one that bears on datablindness is this: it’s extremely difficult to argue that your pilot program is a success without referring back to the expectations that got it funded in the first place. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 18, 2010

Lean, when used in the context of lean startup, refers to a process of building companies and products using lean manufacturing principles applied to innovation. That process involves rapid hypothesis testing, validated learning about customers , and a disciplined approach to product development.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Or, for something more substantive, how about the top five-most-read posts: Why PHP won Dont launch Five Whys Work in small batches The engineering managers lament But wait, theres more! First OODA reference: Ideas. Why Continuous Deployment? * Validated learning about customers * 8.0 Don't launch * 8.9

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AUGUST 3, 2009

You refer to an anonymous Valley-based MMORPG that consumed years and tens of millions in development, but got little commercial traction. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2009

We started with a simple wiki page with a few bullet points of things that new engineers had tripped over recently. In response to Five Whys that noticed that not all new engineers were reading the list, we expanded it into a new engineer curriculum. We never set out to build a world-class engineering-training process.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 31, 2009

Know someone whod make a great engineer at a startup? I'm finding many people coming to me with jobs, not to offer to me necessarily, but to say, "hey do you know any good designer/engineer/product person looking for a new opportunity?" I've been copy pasting large chunks of my reference emails.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Engineers are offenders in this category too, but so is any gender-segregated activity, like an all-female PR or marketing team. To be clear, though, this diversity refers only to diversity of opinion, not necessarily to demographic diversity. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 5, 2008

So, for reference, I am Adam, of [link]. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? 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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DECEMBER 30, 2008

Many great engineers Ive worked with (especially the type I talked about in the hackers lament ) seem to think that if they get along well with someone in an interview, theyll be a good addition to the team. They work steady hours, but not for lack of drive; their references say they have exceptional output.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I started my last company with 100% off-shore resources because I could never have completed Customer Development at a reasonable cost of money or regulatory burden had I employed US Citizens. What were you referring to? The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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MARCH 3, 2009

If your marketing team actually uses data to make decisions, your engineering team will be impressed. I honestly dont know how startups survive without this sense of responsibility on the part of the people doing the actual work that affects customers. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Also, I gotta add.

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JANUARY 4, 2009

And in MMOs, of course, it was a fiction-derived term for parallel servers which has managed to stick (many people refer to parallel VW servers as "shards" now). The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2008

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. What is customer development?

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OCTOBER 19, 2009

Take this fictional example of a Seedcamp attendee (actually a composite), which I will refer to as Hairbrush 2.0. Take this fictional example of a Seedcamp attendee (actually a composite), which I will refer to as Hairbrush 2.0. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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FEBRUARY 12, 2009

Its important to understand how these companies see you: your resume looks like crap, your references are poor or nonexistent, and you dont have the mandated 10 years of experience in J2EE ERP CRM WTF. In the world of startups, this is like trying to sell a product to a very demanding customer who needs to see a lot of features before buying.

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MARCH 20, 2009

In a presentation you gave to one of Steves classes you mentioned how common sense all this customer development stuff seems in theory, but is relatively difficult to pull off on in practice. It would be nice if you could deconstruct why the customer development model is challenging to pull off in practice?

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

I agree that listening and communicating is a key to success, but customer development can only do so much. As always, I am continually amazed by the passion of the IMVU community. Eric, I agree with everyone above about referring to people who loudly voice their opinions as trolls. REALLY NEEDS it IMHO.

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