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Lessons Learned: Work in small batches

Startup Lessons Learned

I owe it originally to lean manufacturing books like Lean Thinking and Toyota Production System. The batch size is the unit at which work-products move between stages in a development process. The sooner you pass your work on to a later stage, the sooner you can find out how they will receive it.

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Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

The second thing that’s changed is that we’re now Compressing the Product Development Cycle. In the 20 th century startups I was part of, the time to build a first product release was measured in years as we turned out the founder’s vision of what customers wanted. We now have specific management tools to grow startups.

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The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: part three

Startup Lessons Learned

In order to prevent people from bunching up in the later stages of the work pipeline, those leaders need to be focused on automation and continuous improvement. Between cycles, put some pressure on those later teams to do more with fewer people. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May. .

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Lean Startup Workshop scholarship program

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, June 12, 2009 Lean Startup Workshop scholarship program I havent had much time to write lately, and so havent been able to share much about the Lean Startup Workshop series I have been producing with OReilly in their Master Class division. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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Durant Versus Sloan – Part 1

Steve Blank

Durant Versus Sloan – Part 1 « Steve Blank steveblank.com/2009/10/01/durant-versus-sloan-part-1 – view page – cached + Customer Development Manifesto: The Path of Warriors and Winners (part 5) + Can You Trust Any VC’s Under 40?

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

So for this first post, here’s the best advice I can give you: join an awesome founding team and get your product out the door ASAP. One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. Andrew Holt I love these kinds of articles.