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Lessons Learned: The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 15, 2008 The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time Split-testing is a core lean startup discipline, and its one of those rare topics that comes up just as often in a technical context as in a business-oriented one when Im talking to startups. Expo SF (May. for Harvard Business Revie.

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Lessons Learned: A hierarchy of pitches

Startup Lessons Learned

Ill exclude those non- lean startups who basically exist for the purpose of raising bigger and bigger sums of money. Most important slide: live demo Prototype product Key questions: what will it take to ship a working product? How does a lean start-up find the all-star team worthy of pitching? Youre not one of those are you?)

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Kiwi lean startup + Australia next

Startup Lessons Learned

Their supposed lack of ambition was belied by the many cool demos and startups I got to meet. If anyone is interested, the Wellington Lean Startup Meetup is a good place to start. Im particularly looking forward to inaugurating the Sydney Lean Startup meetup. In fact, you have to learn to adjust to the humility.

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A Different Kind of Entrepreneurship Conference

Startup Lessons Learned

This post was co-written by Sarah Milstein & Eric Ries, co-hosts of The Lean Startup Conference. We’ve just published the program for this year’s Lean Startup Conference , December 9 to 11 in San Francisco, and we can say without hesitation that it’s completely unlike any other entrepreneurship conference in existence.

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Startup Stories: Looking back on the acquisition of our first 1,000 customers

The Next Web

Support via mail, phone, live demos and basically everything the customer wants. Yeah, I’m a big believer at being lean and to always practice continuous deployment. Here are my 2 cents on how we got here and what I would have done differently: Customer support is a company effort. For a while it was enough.

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Good enough never is (or is it?)

Startup Lessons Learned

The team was demoing their AJAX-powered map solution, the first of its kind, to senior management at Google. Lean manufacturing , agile software development , and Theory of Constraints are all examples of this idea in action. I won’t apologize for this aspect of the Lean Startup methodology. Pivot or persevere?