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Tesla and Adobe: Why Continuous Deployment May Mean Continuous Customer Disappointment

Steve Blank

In the last few years Agile and “Continuous Deployment” has replaced Waterfall and transformed how companies big and small build products. Agile is a tremendous advance in reducing time, money and wasted product development effort – and in having products better match customer needs.

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Hands-on Lessons for Advanced Topics in Entrepreneurship

Startup Lessons Learned

Alistair Croll will lead a session on Lean analytics for intrapreneurs —from introducing never-before-seen case studies to tracking a product through its entire development and demonstrating which data and metrics are useful in what kinds of situations. Thus we reduce the risk of deployments. How do you address that?

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

Startup Lessons Learned

Matt Brezina shared techniques for learning when you’re developing a mobile app—an environment that many people think resists rapid development. You can give advice about applying Lean Startup ideas to business areas other than product development. George Bilbrey gave insight on using the methods on a sales team.

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Lessons Learned: Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you?

Startup Lessons Learned

For companies in the early-adopter phase, you can play "the earlyvangelist game" whenever a customer turns out to be too mainstream for your product. Pick a similar product that they do use, and ask them "who was the first person you know who started using [social networking, mobile phones, plasma TV, instant messaging.]?

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Lessons Learned: The App Store after the gold rush

Startup Lessons Learned

For example, if any of the mobile ad networks gets major traction, they may become a dominant way that people discover new apps. 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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How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone

Startup Lessons Learned

For a lot of brands, their iPhone products will run into the line-extension trap (see The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing ). So there is an opportunity to build new brands with attributes like "the most amazing mobile apps" but I think building a company around that strategy means really thinking through how to do it.

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Three decisions to make on virtual goods

Startup Lessons Learned

This is especially important for teenagers, because it allows them to participate in products without having to go through the complex negotiation with their parents that a subscription usually requires. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0,