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Why Continuous Deployment?

Startup Lessons Learned

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.

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Minimum Viable Product: a guide

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In a lot of cases, this requires a lot of energy invested in talking to customers or metrics and analytics. You refer to an anonymous Valley-based MMORPG that consumed years and tens of millions in development, but got little commercial traction. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot

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If you havent seen it, Pascals recent presentation on continuous deployment is a must-see; slides are here. Andy Mathieson, a founder and managing member at Fairview Capital , was particularly supportive. If you havent seen it, Pascals recent presentation on continuous deployment is a must-see; slides are here.

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Paul Graham on fundraising

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Alas, they arent published in a dead-tree medium yet, so I cant say something like "they are the essential reference on my bookcase." Its to everyones advantage to let the world think the founders thought of everything. I say this as a founder: the contribution of founders is always overestimated. Even VCs do it.

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How to Get Picked as a Speaker for The Lean Startup Conference

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Often, in very young organizations, those people are simply the founders. Now, “lean” is often used to refer to a company’s financial situation, so it might make you think of a bootstrapped or under-funded organization. So if you’ve got advice to share on implementing a continuous deployment framework, for example, we’re all eyes.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

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It should be even more important to the founders themselves, because it demonstrates that their business hypothesis is grounded in reality. Every board meeting, the metrics of success change. These founders have not managed, to borrow a phrase from Steve Blank , to create a scalable and repeatable sales process.

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Lessons Learned: Great open source scalability tools from Danga

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So, for reference, I am Adam, of [link]. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.