Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. In teams that have a business culture, the MBAs pick time.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum , where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. Here, developers and dev shops are organized by vertical so you can find a shop that has expertise in the kind of app you want to build.

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OnlyOnce

MARCH 14, 2011

I share the column with my colleagues Jack Sinclair and George Bilbrey and we cover how to approach the business of email marketing, thoughts on the future of email and other digital technologies, and more general articles on company-building in the online industry – all from the perspective of an entrepreneur.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 26, 2020

…suddenly, nearly all technical jobs are remote-jobs, all dev-teams are distributed teams, and virtually all hiring is remote hiring. Announcement: Square lets employees work from home permanently. The technology is mature enough that working from home works pretty well. Then we set monthly OKRs.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 19, 2010

This is Part 2 of the series: 5 lessons from 150 startup pitches.??? About twenty people on Answers OnStartups have asked this question in one form or another: When I meet an angel investor, he may ask: "What if a big company copies your idea and develops the same website as yours after your website goes public?".

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

Moving on … My second post was directed at employees. I never implied that startups are all great and job hoppers are all at fault. If you’ve done it for a long time then I usually advise hiring managers to hire you as contractors and not full-time employees. It’s a subjective topic.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

Its common to find a hacker at the heart of almost any successful technology company. Those who have the endurance are the ones that tend to lead teams and join startups, because you just cant be successful in a startup situation without empathy. I would characterize them as intolerant but not arrogant. What a waste.

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Up and Running

JUNE 12, 2015

QUESTION: Do you have a story about adding a manager to your team? Online Tools for Startups (with Noah Parsons) – (13:17). Noah: Startup (podcast). Let’s just review them all and see what we like, see what we don’t like. Listen: Show notes: 12 Signs You Need to Hire a Manager – (:31).

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venturehacks.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Venture Hacks Good advice for startups. The best sellers can sell to customers, partners, investors, and employees. He can be technical, but he must be able to wield the tools of influence. Technical founders who don’t sell also use bad proxies (&# Harvard MBA!&# ). If you’re not seriously impressed, move on.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

This post was co-authored with Omri Stern and originally appeared in Harvard Business Review. Israel has been branded the “startup nation.” Frequently cited as one of the world’s most vibrant innovation hubs, Israel boasts more startups per capita than any other country in the world. That’s the good news. We think so.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Or, rather, more offensively to Facebook and Google employees, less offensive to.NET developers, though the underlying message is the same.). You become so steeped in tools and techniques that have absolutely no relevance outside of.NET that you are actually less valuable to a startup than had you just taken a long nap.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

They log in to translate the documents, one at a time, marking each finished when done, which sends the file back to the company for review.” Also important: Only go for providers who have great reviews from many past customers. Decline bids from providers without many great reviews. The translator rejects or approves.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. But I loved reading them and so did my team. The role of Product Managers at Technology Companies. 15 minutes.

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