Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

At the very least, you can plug those assumptions into your financial model, now that you have a sense for what the cost of acquiring new customers might look like. Even more importantly, you can start to experiment with feature set, positioning, and marketing - all without building a product. Eric -- This is a pretty interesting idea.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, February 16, 2009 Continuous deployment with downloads One of my goals in writing posts about topics like continuous deployment is the hope that people will take those ideas and apply them to new situations - and then share what they learn with the rest of us.

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JANUARY 7, 2010

Read the rest at The Conversation - Harvard Business Review. Read the rest at The Conversation - Harvard Business Review. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science?

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AUGUST 2, 2008

but rest assured they would be. 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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JANUARY 15, 2010

Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review Way back when the money was doled out, the team made a compelling pitch about the large market that was going to adopt their new innovative product or service. Read the rest here. Lets return to our team thats failing to hit their targets.

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MAY 31, 2010

You can read the rest of his posts on his blog : Introduction , Part 1 , Part 2.) When I first encountered customer development , it was considered pure lunacy by mainstream entrepreneurs and VCs. You can read the rest of his posts on his blog : Introduction , Part 1 , Part 2.) We all owe him our thanks for persevering.

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JULY 30, 2009

.&# In 2002 I became exposed to the idea of “agile software development&# and subsequently was a first round investor in Rally Software which is now the market leader in Agile application lifecycle management software. Read the rest. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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OCTOBER 5, 2008

But I have a special sympathy for the "product manager" in a startup that is bringing a new product to a new market, and doing their work in large batches. I met one recently that is working on a really innovative product, and the stories I heard from their development team made me want to cringe.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2008

This technique rests on three things: identifying the kinds of work that need to get done, creating the right type of teams for each kind, and steering the company by allocating resources among them. Strategy - startups first encounter this when they have the beginnings of a product, and theyve achieved some amount of product/market fit.

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OCTOBER 4, 2008

So if youre new, consider not paying any attention to the rest of this post, and just diving into the archives, if you havent already. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2009

We spent the rest of our time pretending to work on the assigned homework, but really trying to do interesting side projects, like sending juvenile messages across the school network or building primitive video games. Third, you market it far and wide. And as for marketing it, this post is already on the first page of Hacker News.

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JANUARY 2, 2009

For the rest of us, there is an alternative: to create credibility by building a lean startup. Here in Tampa, our biggest challenge is convincing the regions technology "leadership" that grassroots economic development is a good thing. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Heres my favorite part: If youve got a team, part of the team should obsess about the backlist, honing it, editing it and promoting it, while the rest work to generate (as opposed to promote) the frontlist. The opportunity isnt to give into temptation and figure out how to recklessly and expensively market the frontlist.

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AUGUST 24, 2009

But, as any startup can tell you, this opens up a tremendous set of opportunities for the rest of us. Now, helping potential customers discover new things they might like is the job of the discipline of marketing. The key tools of this new marketing are: targeting, filtering, and customer insight.

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MARCH 4, 2009

If you are willing, please take a moment to fill it out before proceeding with the rest of the post; itll mean less biased results, and youll have a better idea what Im talking about later. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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MARCH 11, 2010

Read the rest: For Startups, How Much Process Is Too Much? - Read the rest: For Startups, How Much Process Is Too Much? - The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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APRIL 12, 2010

This program is designed for people who have a stake in creating great products: engineers, designers, product managers, marketers and businesspeople—from companies of any size. Read the rest here. Read the rest here. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

After some general lessons, he then proposes his first product idea, complete with flip charts, business plan, and marketing plan. But in reality, most products fail because they are the Ice Cream Glove, that is, because there are no customers who will buy them. Read the rest (and be sure to watch the videos).

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FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Read the rest of Entrepreneurs: Beware of Vanity Metrics at The Conversation on Harvard Business Review. Read the rest of Entrepreneurs: Beware of Vanity Metrics at The Conversation on Harvard Business Review. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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OCTOBER 19, 2009

Unfortunately, after months or even years of development, many companies discover that customers arent willing to buy their new wares. Thats why some entrepreneurs are trying another approach to product launches: marketing a product online before spending much on research and development or inventory. Read the rest.

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MAY 7, 2009

I spent some time with his company before the conference and discussed ways to get started with continuous deployment , including my experience introducing it at IMVU. Moreover, approaching the problem from the direction that I had intuitively is a recipe for never reaching a point where continuous deployment is feasible.

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MARCH 23, 2009

.&# If you keep iterating at it, you keep making it a little bit more sophisticated, at a certain point after you’ve been through 10 iterations, that you still got no uptake whatsoever, and the feedback you’re getting from customers is still a yawn, you might say to yourself,&# You know what?

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

2gov.org will take care of the rest. 2gov.org will take care of the rest. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. To that end, were tweeting about it, and would like to ask you to join us.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2009

This is a designated web2open hybrid session - which means you can attend for free even if youre not attending the rest of the conference. This is a designated web2open hybrid session - which means you can attend for free even if youre not attending the rest of the conference. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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MAY 17, 2009

What about the rest of us? 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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OCTOBER 4, 2010

Journalists have the highest obligation to ask these kinds of questions, and conferences organized by journalists ought to be the exemplars the rest of us look up to. Journalists have the highest obligation to ask these kinds of questions, and conferences organized by journalists ought to be the exemplars the rest of us look up to.

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MAY 5, 2009

Third customer comes in, same thing. Watch the rest here. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. You start to see these patterns and you’re like, okay.

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AUGUST 20, 2009

Read the rest of the article here. Does lean startup xlate into sustainable success where a fast feedback/iteration loop yields market leadership? Does it make sense to play the customer chase with investors as well? The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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NOVEMBER 11, 2008

The fact that the San Francisco Bay Area’s electronics industry began close to the turn of the Twentieth Century should lay to rest the notion that industrialization and urbanization on the scale of Silicon Valley can be quickly induced in other areas. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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JULY 9, 2009

If Id bought just a handful of the "best of the rest" domain names that were available at the time (for a whopping $70 each), I probably could have just retired right then. Neither can the rest of us (well, except for Matt Cohler). The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

And the rest is history: Google Maps was a huge success. After all, how would Craig Newmark’s life (and the rest of ours, too) be different today if he had waited to build something with a high-quality design before starting his famous list? And the rest is history: Google Maps was a huge success. Ship it.&# Ship it.&#

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OCTOBER 6, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 6, 2008 When NOT to listen to your users; when NOT to rely on split-tests There are three legs to the lean startup concept: agile product development , low-cost (fast to market) platforms , and rapid-iteration customer development. The opportunity was just mind-bogglingly huge.

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JULY 31, 2009

The broadcast nature of joblink doesn't seem necessary/useful to me but I can see how the rest are useful. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. I'll definitely try this out.

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MARCH 13, 2009

Announce a new product, start its PR campaign, and engage in buzz marketing activities. Marketing launch) Make a new product available to customers in the general public. This is the usual reason given for a marketing launch, but for most early stage startups, its a failure. Do your customers really read TechCrunch?

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AUGUST 1, 2009

Heres the key quote: Steve Jobs on why Apple doesn’t do market research - Bokardo It’s not about pop culture, and it’s not about fooling people, and it’s not about convincing people that they want something they don’t. Now, I cant speak to what process Steve Jobs uses to get his team to do this market assessment.

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OCTOBER 11, 2009

But they require coordination across departments – engineering, marketing, customers service. Teams that work this way are more productive, as long as productivity is measured by their ability to create customer value (and not just stay busy). Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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DECEMBER 30, 2008

Similar mechanisms are at work in the stock market, Google PageRank , and guessing an oxs weight at the state fair. Remove any of these essential ingredients, and you can find examples of groups gone bad: the Bay of Pigs invasion fiasco , market bubbles, and pretty much every one of Dilbert s team meetings. Anyway, back to fit.

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