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

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

You get increasing growth by optimizing the viral loop , and you get revenue as a side-effect, assuming you have even the most anemic monetization scheme baked into your product. Paid - if your product monetizes customers better than your competitors, you have the opportunity to use your lifetime value advantage to drive growth.

San Francisco CPA SEM CTO Hire

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

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Thats the conclusion Ive come to after watching tons of online products fail for a complete lack of customers. Our goal is to find out whether customers are interested in your product by offering to give (or even sell) it to them, and then failing to deliver on that promise. Nothing made any difference. Just put in your credit card.

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Demand San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment

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Lessons Learned: Just-In-Time Scalability

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Labels: agile , continuous deployment 1 comments: timothyfitz said. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Ha.

San Francisco Continuous Deployment Agile Lean

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

In recent years, weve also got great new options all up and down the stack, in particular things like Amazon EC2 and RightScale (none of which would be possible without the free software movement). The application of agile development methodologies which dramatically reduce waste and unlock creativity in product development.

Lean

Lean San Francisco Startup Continuous Deployment

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Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

In a startup, both the problem and solution are unknown, and the key to success is building an integrated team that includes product development in the feedback loop with customers. If you can build cars with it, Im pretty sure you can use it to add agility and flexibility to any product development process.

Customer Development

Customer Development Engineer San Francisco Developer

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Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your code right now

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you? Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Ha.

Software Review

Software Review San Francisco Technical Review Continuous Deployment

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Andrew Chen: Growing renewable audiences

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you? Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Ha.

Audience San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean

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Lessons Learned: Ideas. Code. Data. Implement. Measure. Learn

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Its inspired by the classic OODA Loop and is really just a simplified version of that concept, applied specifically to creating a software product development team. There are three stages: We start with ideas about what our product could be. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean DC

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Lessons Learned: A new version of the Joel Test (draft)

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

I am convinced one of Joel Spolskys lasting contributions to the field of managing software teams will turn out to be the Joel Test , a checklist of 12 essential practices that you could use to rate the effectiveness of a software product development team. For more on continuous deployment, see Just-in-time Scalability.

Software Review

Software Review Technical Review San Francisco Continuous Deployment

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On deployment

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

After an hour with a team talking dirty about deployment, youll know. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Ha.

San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean DC

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How to listen to customers, and not just the loud people

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

In the very early days, the trick is to find anyone at all who can understand you when you are talking about your product. In our first year at IMVU, we thought we were building a 3D avatar chat product. As product people, we thought of competition in terms of features. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

San Francisco Customer Lean Continuous Deployment

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Lessons Learned: Test-Driven Development as andon cord

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 1, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 1, 2008 Test-Driven Development as andon cord You cannot control what you cannot see, and the hardest part of managing software projects is that the final product is so intangible. This is equivalent of the andon cord in a Toyota production plant. Automated tests make defects visible.

San Francisco Developer Continuous Deployment DC

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

If the CEO wants to completely change the product in order to serve a new customer segment, you need someone in the room who can digest the needs of the new (proposed) business, and lay out the costs of each possible approach. Whats one thing a brand-new first-time CTO could learn from them? What made them exceptional?

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

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

In my experience, the majority of changes we made to products have no effect at all on customer behavior. This can be hard news to accept, and its one of the major reasons not to split-test. This kind of result is typical when you ship a redesign of some part of your product. First of all, why split-test?

San Francisco Lean Technical Review Continuous Deployment

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Marc Prensky's Weblog: Cell Phones in Class

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you? Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Ha.

San Francisco Continuous Deployment DC Lean

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

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

You can find out what it would take for them to adopt your product, and then follow up a week later and see if they did. Same with finding out what it would take to get them to recommend your product to a friend. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. You can even meet the friend. can I talk to them?"

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC

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Seth Godin: How often should you publish?

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Life is so easy in the days before the "launch" - you just focus on building and polishing those new features. You have customers, they are using your product, and you are trying to help them. But youre also trying to build and polish new features. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. But then what?

San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean DC

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How to Usability Test your Site for Free

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

Usability testing is great for coming up with ideas about what to change in your product, but dont forget to split-test those ideas to make sure they work, too. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you?

San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean DC

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Lessons Learned: Greasemonkey compiler

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 6, 2008

Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you? Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Ha.

San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean DC

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Not crossing the chasm

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

A growing startup with a well-run product team will have a history of steady progress. For readers concerned about the chasm, I recommend reading Seth Godin's thoughts on "Being remarkable" and finding a unique edge/twist for your products and marketing (edgecraft). Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean DC

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Waves of technology platforms

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

You dont need to invent a new architecture, and you dont need to even build your architecture up-front. You can turn your entire application infrastructure investment into a pay-as-you-go variable cost, and bring new products to market at speeds an order of magnitude faster than just 10 years ago. yeah, its awesome.

San Francisco Technology Continuous Deployment Lean

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Lessons Learned: SEM on five dollars a day

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, September 13, 2008 SEM on five dollars a day How do you build a new product with constant customer feedback while simultaneously staying under the radar? SEM is a simple idea. In a mature company with a mature product, the goal is to pay for lots of people to come to your website.

SEM

SEM San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment

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Lessons Learned: The App Store after the gold rush

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

As the gold rush drives thousands of apps onto the platform, its getting harder and harder for new entrants to get oxygen. As the channel gets more and more crowded, just launching an app in the store is getting worse and worse as a strategy for each new entrant. Acqusition competition is how new apps get new customers.

San Francisco Lean Retention SEM

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Thoughts on scientific product development

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 22, 2008 Thoughts on scientific product development I enjoyed reading a post today from Laserlike (Mike Speiser), on Scientific product development. I agree with the less is more product development approach, but for a different reason. So dont just kill the feature - iterate.

Product Development

Product Development Developer San Francisco Product

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Lessons Learned: Throwing away working code

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 28, 2009

Customers dont care if you have good metrics, only if you have a good product. And while its true that metrics sometimes can lead to a better product, in my experience just as often they had led to no insight whatsoever, like fancy reports that nobody reads or after-the-fact rationalizations (with graphs!) Well, lack of usage, really.

San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean DC

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Lessons Learned: Don't launch

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Announce a new product, start its PR campaign, and engage in buzz marketing activities. Marketing launch) Make a new product available to customers in the general public. Product launch) In todays world, there is no reason you have to do these two things at the same time. If the viral coefficient is 0.9,

San Francisco PR Lean Early Stage

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How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Many of them have really cool products shipping or about to be released, and I wholeheartedly agree with my friends at the iFund that the next generation of applications is going to be amazing. The store determines which products sit on which shelves, and which yours sits next to. Ive also been playing around with the App Store.

Distribution San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment

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Lessons Learned: Great open source scalability tools from Danga

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 5, 2008

Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you? Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Ha.

Open Source San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean

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Lessons Learned: Q&A with an actual reader

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

Question 1: When youre adding features to a product used by an existing user base, do you still do split testing to determine usage patterns? Sometimes, testing with existing customers is more complicated than with new customers. If youre worried it, either run the test against new customers or run it for longer than usual.

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup comes to Stanford

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 28, 2008

Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you? Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Ha.

Lean

Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment Startup

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You don't need as many tools as you think

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

I usually recommend a three-part board, where the left column is where the scrum-style "product backlog" is maintained in priority order, the middle represents tasks in progress, and the right column is for tasks recently finished. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Take a look and let me know what you think.

San Francisco SCRUM Lean Continuous Deployment