Continuous Deployment, Demand, Hiring and San Francisco

Why Continuous Deployment?

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, June 15, 2009 Why Continuous Deployment? Of all the tactics I have advocated as part of the lean startup , none has provoked as many extreme reactions as continuous deployment , a process that allows companies to release software in minutes instead of days, weeks, or months.

Continuous Deployment

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Lessons Learned: Continuous deployment and continuous learning

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, February 10, 2009 Continuous deployment and continuous learning At long last, some of the actual implementers of the advanced systems we built at IMVU for rapid deployment and rapid response are starting to write about it. At IMVU it’s a core part of our culture to ship.

Continuous Deployment

Continuous Deployment San Francisco Software Review Lean

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

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, November 7, 2008 Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online service, step-by-step If you want to build an online service, and you dont test it with a fake AdWords campaign ahead of time, youre crazy. Turns out, there was aboslutely no demand whatsoever for that particular product.

Demand

Demand San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment

Minimum Viable Product: a guide

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 3, 2009

I was delighted to be asked to give a brief talk about the MVP at the inaugural meetup of the lean startup circle here in San Francisco. Iterate quickly to uncover true market demands. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Thanks Eric, great blog!

San Francisco

San Francisco Product Lean Continuous Deployment

Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

For eBay, this is caused by the incredible network effects of their business (so-called demand-side increasing returns and supply-side increasing returns). Beware the new hire who has "extensive experience" in startups or big companies - using a different growth driver. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

San Francisco

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Lessons Learned: Five Whys

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

It seems your cluster architecture is one of the key architectural constraints making continuous deployment possible. If you cant deploy to 5% of the nodes and check the results, then how would you accomplish continuous deployment? Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Bring your questions.

Software Review

Software Review Technical Review San Francisco Continuous Deployment

Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

Thanks to Suns amazing PR blitz, there was tremendous demand for experts on Java, and I did my best to convince people that I was one of that mythical breed. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0,

San Francisco

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Lessons Learned: The ABCDEF's of conducting a technical interview

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 29, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, November 29, 2008 The ABCDEFs of conducting a technical interview I am incredibly proud of the people I have hired over the course of my career. This second objective plays no small part in allowing you to hire the best. Hiring decisions are among the most difficult, and the most critical.

San Francisco

San Francisco Lean Agile Java

Lessons Learned: Stevey's Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. What is customer development?

Agile

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Lessons Learned: Principles of Lean Startups, presentation for.

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. What is customer development?

Lean

Lean San Francisco Agile Continuous Deployment

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? My hope is to create a one-day event in San Francisco sometime in the spring. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

San Francisco

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC

Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

By delegating and training, we create a corps of leaders who could step in to provide CTO-like services on demand. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. Bring your questions.

CTO

CTO Fractional CTO CTO Hire Technical Review

Lessons Learned: The four kinds of work, and how to get them done.

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. What is customer development?

San Francisco

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC

The curse of prevention

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2009

If we’re practicing continuous deployment, we can be confident that we’ll be able to rush an emergency fix into production without risking introducing further problems. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. We can also ask: how would we fix the problem if it does occur?

San Francisco

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Lessons Learned: What is customer development?

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. What is customer development?

Customer Development

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A real Customer Advisory Board

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Customers kept demanding that we add this or that IM feature, and we were routinely refusing. We were afraid that this was just the tip of the iceberg, and that once we “gave in&# to these five demands there would be five more, ad infinitum. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

Advisory Board

Advisory Board Customer San Francisco Lean

Good enough never is (or is it?)

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Or what if the features they demand we build are different from the ones we were planning to build? Or what if the features they demand we build are different from the ones we were planning to build? Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Bring your questions.

San Francisco

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment Software Review

Lessons Learned: The four kinds of work, and how to get them done.

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

If I have some budget for outside help, should I hire a vendor to help us drive down our payment fraud rates by 1% (ROI easy to predict), or hire a market research firm to give us insights into potential customers (ROI hard to predict)? Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

San Francisco

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC

How to conduct a Five Whys root cause analysis

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2009

" paragraph have the heading "Training New Hires", above the "Returning to the meeting itself." oh, and on the book front, you'll be able to get all of my essays so far in ebook, print-on-demand, and kindle editions - coming soon. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

San Francisco

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Datablindness

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

Periodic or on-demand reports are one possibility, but we can do much better. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ▼ 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. Pivot, don't jump to a new vision Why Continuous Deployment?

San Francisco

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC

Lessons Learned: The hacker's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

As the company grows, hes the go-to person for almost everything technical, and so hes very much in demand. And we cant hire new engineers any faster, because you cant be interviewing and debugging and fixing all at the same time! Even with the highest standards imaginable, theres no way to hire just genius hackers.

Software Review

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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. As a result, we were able to get started more quickly, avoid writing a ton of art path tools from scratch, and even hire from within that community. On-demand utility pricing for services (aka "cloud computing").

Product Development

Product Development Developer San Francisco Product

Lessons Learned: ScienceDaily: Corporate culture is most important.

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. What is customer development?

San Francisco

San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean DC

Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

As in many scalability decisions, we’d have been much better off investing in agility, so that we could change the architecture in response to actual customer demand, rather than trying to predict the future. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

Technical Review

Technical Review Software Review San Francisco Lean

Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

The other revels in the world as we all know it will be someday: limitless distribution enabled by new technologies, the importance of collaborative filters, and on-demand availability of all content for end-users. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

San Francisco

San Francisco Lean Technical Review Distribution

Business ecology and the four customer currencies

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

In other words, the minimum viable product is designed to answer the question: does the product generate enough demand and margin to support a growing ecosystem? In other words, the minimum viable product is designed to answer the question: does the product generate enough demand and margin to support a growing ecosystem?

Customer

Customer San Francisco Viral Lean

Learning from Obama: maneuver warfare on the campaign trail

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Wed train them on-demand as they came in, and send them into the world (or onto the phones) with written instructions and voter contact data. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica.

Campaign

Campaign San Francisco Lean Agile

For Startups, How Much Process Is Too Much? (for Harvard Business.

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 11, 2010

High-profile startup Friendster had first-mover advantage in the social networking space, but created openings for competitors when it could not scale to meet demand. High-profile startup Friendster had first-mover advantage in the social networking space, but created openings for competitors when it could not scale to meet demand.

San Francisco

San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean DC

Stop lying on stage

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Many journalists and conference organizers attempt to fill this demand by giving successful entrepreneurs the opportunity to tell their stories: in magazines, on blogs, and on stage. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Bring your questions.

San Francisco

San Francisco Lean PR Metrics

Lessons Learned: What is a market? (a guide for hackers)

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

It takes advantage of the idea, which I owe to Clayton Christensen , that customers buying a product are really "hiring" it to do a specific "job" for them. An employer is trying to hire someone for a specific job, and they think they know what that job is. There are four: Existing market. This is applying for an open job req.

San Francisco

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The cardinal sin of community management

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

In fact, I am convinced that if you could find some of IMVU’s earliest adopters, they would say something like this: “sure, those guys at IMVU HQ were helpful in writing code and stuff, but in the end they were just the hired help. And until that happens, you will continually have to keep borrowing money time and time again.

Community

Community Management Lean Software Review

The Lean Entrepreneur is here

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

A few of the detailed case studies include: Tech legend Bill Gross building an MVP in 1999 to test demand for online car sales, which grew into CarsDirect.com. Struggling to explain the successes and failures of those companies, I discussed principles like continuous deployment, customer development, and a hyper-accelerated form of agile.

Lean

Lean Entrepreneur Agile San Francisco

Getting educated about advertising, agencies, and media buyers

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. What is customer development?

Advertising

Advertising San Francisco Media Continuous Deployment

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

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 22, 2008

Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. What is customer development?

.Net

.Net Operations San Francisco Lean

Lessons Learned: Where did Silicon Valley come from?

Startup Lessons Learned

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.

Silicon Valley

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Lo, my 1032 subscribers, who are you?

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 19, 2008

Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. What is customer development?

San Francisco

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC

StartUpRoar

Why Continuous Deployment?

Lessons Learned: Continuous deployment and continuous learning

Trending Sources

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

Minimum Viable Product: a guide

Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Lessons Learned: Five Whys

Lessons Learned: About the author

Lessons Learned: The ABCDEF's of conducting a technical interview

Lessons Learned: Stevey's Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile

Lessons Learned: Principles of Lean Startups, presentation for.

Towards a new entrepreneurship

Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Lessons Learned: The four kinds of work, and how to get them done.

The curse of prevention

Lessons Learned: What is customer development?

A real Customer Advisory Board

Good enough never is (or is it?)

Lessons Learned: The four kinds of work, and how to get them done.

How to conduct a Five Whys root cause analysis

Datablindness

Lessons Learned: The hacker's lament

Lessons Learned: Product development leverage

Lessons Learned: ScienceDaily: Corporate culture is most important.

Embrace technical debt

Marching through quicksand

Business ecology and the four customer currencies

Learning from Obama: maneuver warfare on the campaign trail

For Startups, How Much Process Is Too Much? (for Harvard Business.

Stop lying on stage

Lessons Learned: What is a market? (a guide for hackers)

The cardinal sin of community management

The Lean Entrepreneur is here

Getting educated about advertising, agencies, and media buyers

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

Lessons Learned: Where did Silicon Valley come from?

Lo, my 1032 subscribers, who are you?

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