Startup Lessons Learned
MARCH 3, 2009
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, March 3, 2009 Employees should be masters of their own time Every startup should have a culture of learning. The rule is simple: every employee is 100% responsible for how they spend their time. The suggestion is that you implement one single company-wide rule. I asked why.
Startup Lessons Learned
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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Startup Lessons Learned
JULY 28, 2010
If you havent seen it, Pascals recent presentation on continuous deployment is a must-see; slides are here. With 21 employees today, kaChing is devoted to recruiting professional managers and finding product/market fit , first for money managers, then for consumers. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.
Startup Lessons Learned
NOVEMBER 13, 2008
Hes a new employee, and he was not properly trained in TDD So far, this isnt much different from the kind of analysis any competent operations team would conduct for a site outage. Instead, five whys kept leading to problems caused by an improperly trained new employee, and wed make a small adjustment. why did that code get written?
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 10, 2008
But if you want to practice rapid deployment, you need to be able to deploy that build in one step as well. If you want to do continuous deployment, youd better be able to certify that build too, which brings us to. For more on continuous deployment, see Just-in-time Scalability. Can you make a build in one step?
Startup Lessons Learned
JANUARY 30, 2009
Insist on the incredibly high-IQ employees and hold them to incredibly high standards. It never generated positive returns for its investors, and most of its employees walked away dejected. This company had disciplined schedules, milestones, employee evaluations, and a culture of execution. Build a truly mainstream product.
Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 4, 2008
That institution will touch many people in its life: customers, investors, employees, and everyone they touch as well. Eric, I landed upon your blog when I was searching for the path to CTO a couple of months back and I have been a frequent to the site since then. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.
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