Customer Development Finance Metrics Workshop 
Startup Lessons Learned
DECEMBER 23, 2009
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, December 23, 2009 Why vanity metrics are dangerous In a previous post, I defined two kinds of metrics: vanity metrics and actionable metrics. In this post, Id like to talk about the perils of vanity metrics. My personal favorite vanity metrics is "hits."
Startup Lessons Learned
APRIL 14, 2009
Every board meeting, the metrics of success change. Their product development team is hard at work on a next-generation product platform, which is designed to offer a new suite of products – but this effort is months behind schedule. Time-to-complete-a-sale is not a bad metric for validated learning at this stage.
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Startup Lessons Learned
MAY 7, 2009
In the case of an entrepreneur pitching for finance, its the same fear that has them putting on a facade and not comfortable in what they do and dont know that will see them a long way off getting funded. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?
Startup Lessons Learned
JANUARY 28, 2009
Compounding is not a process that most people find intuitive, and thats as true in engineering as it is in finance, so it requires a lot of encouragement in the early days to stay the course. Only one occasion was a substantial rewrite justified based on performance metrics. Its a version of the law of compounding interest.
Startup Lessons Learned
APRIL 26, 2009
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, April 26, 2009 Product development leverage Leverage has once again become a dirty word in the world of finance, and rightly so. But I want to talk about a different kind of leverage, the kind that you can get in product development. Startup Lessons Learned - the Conference (April 23.
Startup Lessons Learned
DECEMBER 4, 2013
What you’ll see at all of our events —whether on the stage, in the workshops , at a mentoring session , or in the site visits —is something other than conference regulars pitching presentations on the usual themes. And that’s not to mention the advice for very early-stage companies on topics like getting your first users, or choosing metrics.
Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 20, 2008
Cost and time are effectively absolutes (The Caretaker's high finance schenanigans and 20th century Physics aside). The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Quality is an abstraction of value, and value of service (or changes) is situated in human contexts.
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