Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

The advantage of sharing this information widely is that it gives everyone insight into the kinds of problems the team is facing, but also insight into how those problems are being tackled. It seems your cluster architecture is one of the key architectural constraints making continuous deployment possible.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

Those rates gave us a map that told us a lot about our customers; insights that proved stable even when the company grew orders of magnitude bigger. Only much later did I realize that this was an application of customer development to online marketing. Thanks so much for sharing this information.

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APRIL 9, 2009

Thats the essence of so many of the lean startup techniques Ive evangelized: customer development , the Ideas/Code/Data feedback loop , and the adaptation of agile development to the startup experience. Creating a company-wide feedback loop that incorporates both customer development and agile development is a challenge.

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JANUARY 12, 2010

I continue to believe that the explosion of interest in the lean startup has very little to do with me. Recent economic events, technological change, and the rapid diffusion of information about the old models have combined to help us all realize just how important entrepreneurship is - and just how little we really know about it.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2008

If you cant find any , maybe that means you havent figured out who your customer is yet. And if you dont know who your customer is, perhaps some customer development is in order? Labels: customer development , search engine marketing 13comments: Jim Lindstrom said. What is customer development?

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Own the development methodology - in a traditional product development setup, the VP Engineering or some other full-time manager would be responsible for making sure the engineers wrote adequate specs, interfaced well with QA, and also run the scheduling "trains" for releases. Labels: product development 15comments: mukund said.

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JULY 6, 2009

Before I close, let me quote just one additional bit of twitter feedback from one of the video beta-testers: bmeschke : @ ericries This is such GREAT information. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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AUGUST 8, 2009

During the course of implementing a design, new information will arise, which many times will change the original design. The kinds of "new information" in the quote above are implementation details. When it becomes possible to build products "live" with customers, the cycle time changes and design becomes a much more dynamic process.

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OCTOBER 4, 2008

Your blogs are full of rational thoughts and has nuggets of information. It is encouraging to know someone with your reputation and connections is evangelizing truly valuable information for start-ups. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Is ShareThis really necessary?

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APRIL 14, 2009

Their product definition fluctuates wildly – one month, it’s a dessert topping, the next it’s a floor wax. Their product development team is hard at work on a next-generation product platform, which is designed to offer a new suite of products – but this effort is months behind schedule.

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JANUARY 2, 2010

The cost of creating new companies is falling rapidly, and access to markets, distribution, and information is within the reach of anyone with an internet connection. The result is a profound democratization of the digital means of production. The result is a profound democratization of the digital means of production.

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JUNE 8, 2009

Sometime later, a guide would rattle off useful information, like the density of cars in the immediate vicinity, how that density compares to historical averages, the average mass and velocity of recent cars. So the product development team was busy creating lots of split-tests for lots of hypotheses. It required two things.

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AUGUST 1, 2009

When a customer tells you how they feel about your ideas, that doesnt tell you anything about your ideas. It tells you something about what that customer thinks and feels. Figuring out whether and how to incorporate that new information into your vision is your job. As Steve says, "That’s what we get paid to do."

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MARCH 22, 2010

The cost of creating new companies is falling rapidly, and access to markets, distribution, and information is within the reach of anyone with an Internet connection. The result is a profound democratization of the digital means of production. [.] The result is a profound democratization of the digital means of production. [.]

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JULY 29, 2009

Startups especially can benefit by using technical debt to experiment, invest in process, and increase their product development leverage. The biggest source of waste in new product development is building something that nobody wants. Leverage product development with open source and third parties.

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APRIL 7, 2010

There are often counter-intuitive changes in customer behavior that depend on little details. In fact, the curse of product development is that sometimes small things make a huge difference and sometimes huge things make no difference. When we’re optimizing, product development teams encounter similar situations.

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OCTOBER 28, 2008

I have come to believe that there is a hierarchy of pitches, and that understanding where your pitch falls on this spectrum can assist in making decisions about what information to highlight. If you cant close the deal, maybe your company is at the wrong stage of its development, and its time to try a different tack.

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JUNE 5, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, June 5, 2009 It’s a startup, not a spreadsheet Some people, when they start to realize the power of using data to inform their decisions, become obsessed with optimization. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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MARCH 17, 2009

It wont even get passed the registrant information screen to even get to selecting what you want to register for. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. March 19, 2009 6:11 PM Anonymoussaid. Ill be there!

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

They cant present much information, unless you take the box off the shelf and look at it. The store determines which products sit on which shelves, and which yours sits next to. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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OCTOBER 20, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. Good luck, engineering manager. It was painful for a lot of people.

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MAY 27, 2009

The presentation was informative, insightful, and humorous - as you pointed out the many ridiculous assumptions we make as entrepreneurs! The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Thanks for an enjoyable evening.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

I originally thought I might get some development process tips (I manage developers), but I find that Im really enjoying your business tips (SEM, listening to customers, etc.). I agree with the other comments, more information on yourself and what topics youll focus on would be helpful. More of the same. So why you?

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AUGUST 24, 2009

Because of the incredible array of information available, we have a desperate need for filtering mechanisms. The key tools of this new marketing are: targeting, filtering, and customer insight. Mass blasts of information are ineffective, because the broadcast channels are suffering from information overload (even in social media).

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MARCH 3, 2009

And if youre giving them all of the information they need to understand the companys strategy, customers, and processes, you can be confident that theyll be able to apply that understanding to their current responsibilities. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Accurate - if youve ever been managed by task-tracking software, youll relate to the feeling that you either have to spend ludicrous amounts of time posting updates or the information goes stale. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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JANUARY 28, 2009

Because, unless you are working in an extremely static environment, your product development team is learning and getting better all the time. Most importantly, I encouraged the leaders of the company to bring awareness of the business challenges to the product development team. Great post, Eric.

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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. For more information see [link] September 10, 2009 9:53 AM John Seiffer said. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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JUNE 17, 2010

But scope negotiations between departments are an example of an “iterated prisoner’s dilemma&# situation, where the same parties repeatedly negotiate, and rely on their previous experience to inform their choices in the current round. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ▼ June (3) What is a startup?

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FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Now, whenever I screen resumes, I ask the recruiter to black out any demographic information from the resume itself: name, age, gender, country of origin. Now, whenever I screen resumes, I ask the recruiter to black out any demographic information from the resume itself: name, age, gender, country of origin. “Who is this guy?

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JANUARY 4, 2009

You need to store two kinds of information. This information is normally maintained by your operations team. hi, your artical and information is able to help me. Your post is helpful and informative April 19, 2009 10:49 PM Jerry said. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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MARCH 4, 2009

, it seemed time to return to the subject of investigating who my customers are. Today, Id like to spend some time on two techniques: the problem presentation and learning what channels of information reach customers. No customers understood what that meant. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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DECEMBER 30, 2008

In order to make an informed decision, the team needs a process of gathering and combining their opinions without having anyones voice stifled. 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 5, 2008

Observe At the end of each day, wed laboriously enter data, updating the campaigns voter database with information about every voter contact we accomplished that day. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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MARCH 24, 2009

In short, I think this metric is "too composite" and hides, rather than illuminates, useful information. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. March 25, 2009 9:16 AM Jesse Farmer said.

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JANUARY 12, 2009

Add onto that the incredible amounts of infrastructure code that we reused, and we were able to bring our product to market months earlier. I like your style of posting and useful information Which you always provide. what a great site and informative posts, I always look forward to new posts. YMMV, of course :). Thanks Again.

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APRIL 26, 2010

Lean mindsets and methods for innovation in any company a free webinar featuring: Eric Ries April 28, 2010 at 2:00 PM EDT The "Lean Startup" is the application of lean thinking to the process of innovation in startup companies — defined as a type of business where both the problem (customer need) and the solution (product) are unknown.

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