Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, February 20, 2009 Work in small batches Software should be designed, written, and deployed in small batches. The batch size is the unit at which work-products move between stages in a development process. For software, the easiest batch to see is code. I dont think so.

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ConversionXL

MAY 3, 2020

” Here’s how Lucian Adrian Stroie of R/GA defines it : As it is the case with testing in any field (not just in software), it’s aim and scope is to provide information to stakeholders and decision makers about the tested item. User testing: Examines how real people perceive and use your site/software.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2020

At Qualtrics, our mission is to create the Experience Management (XM) software category. hub, with 140+ SEO-friendly articles that offer in-depth, informational coverage of sub-topics like “ net promoter score ” or “customer experience software.” hero section, CTA row, video modals) look like. Big bets on evergreen content.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Here’s how Lucian Adrian Stroie of R/GA explains quality assurance… Lucian Adrian Stroie , R/GA : “As it is the case with testing in any field (not just in software), it’s aim and scope is to provide information to stakeholders and decision makers about the tested item. via Develop With Purpose).

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Gideon Shalwick and I have had a conversation over and over again, lamenting the lack of a truly robust software tool designed for Internet marketers to sell information online. It is the brainchild of Andy Jenkins , who with a development team have been putting the final touches on what looks like a potentially very good system.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

OCTOBER 14, 2010

I spent an entire hour watching the sales video for a new product you probably have heard of, it’s called… Kajabi You can watch the video for yourself right here – What Is Kajabi? Rather than me go through the entire set of features, you’re better off watching the video if you want a more in-depth look.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

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. As for web and social apps, for some platforms, you’ll want to have a special development team. Last, you will want to see whether your potential hire has technical chops.

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

a New York-based sizzle reel production company specializing in promotional videos for PR and marketing professionals, and the Young Entrepreneur Council. When making technical hires, we always reach out to our network of programmer friends and ask them to sit in on interviews and review resumes with us. Have an account?

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dontbesoanalytical.blogspot.com

MAY 13, 2012

The CTO should not manage developers. The head of development spends his or her time working to keep the development team on track against a set of product plans. Inside the development organization, this Director attends to staffing, training, workload and productivity metrics, budget, and scheduling.

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View from Seed

MARCH 19, 2015

” After spending some time at the acquiring company, I was hired by Google and eventually was put in charge of the development team that launched AdWords. ” So I left Google to do another startup, Agitar Software. Another success. So I thought, “I am good!” provides a very solid foundation.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2008

I met one recently that is working on a really innovative product, and the stories I heard from their development team made me want to cringe. The product manager was clearly struggling to get results from the rest of the team. Labels: product development 8comments: Vincent van Wylick said. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

They just assumed it was the way software companies worked. In teams that follow the "pick two" agenda, which two has to be resolved via a power play. Unfortunately, threats work a lot better at incentivizing people to CYA than getting them to write quality software. I couldnt see that we were managing to pick even one.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, November 8, 2008 What is customer development? For software, we have many - you can enjoy a nice long list on Wikipedia. VentureHacks did a great summary , which includes slides and video. Our goal in product development is to find the minimum feature set required to get early customers.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Vlad Malik from www.goodui.org gave a review of A/B Tasty: Vlad Malik : “The things I like about ABTasty I like a lot. You can, for example, isolate the conversion rate for all visitors who played the video you’re testing. Can offer much better data due to true user basis then tools like GO or Optimizely.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

The idea of leverage is simple: for every ounce of effort your product development team puts into your product, find ways to magnify that effort by getting many other people to invest along with you. So we tried to craft a strategy that would give us the product development leverage we needed to serve all customers.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

Read on and let me help you decide… My Money Comes From My Email List The majority of people who will read this blog post will come from my email newsletter because I sent a message about this review. The team who created PopUp Domination fixed most of the bugs, and the latest 2.0 Chances are that is how you came to read this.

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Up and Running

MAY 6, 2015

The first article that we wanted to talk about is one written by the founder of Palo Alto Software, Tim Berry. Your accounting software, you’re entering those numbers. The marketing team wants this video. All the stuff you’re thinking about here, testimonials, social proof, think about reviews.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 7, 2007

9: Don’t forget Flash, Flex, RIA, RSS, Videos etc. In the past I have recommended Web Link Validator from REL Software as something we have had a positive experience with. It can do a lot more than check missing tags, see the website for all the features, so all around a good piece of software to have.

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 1, 2006

From the most uber perspective User Research is the science of observing and monitoring how we interact with everyday things such as websites or software or hardware, and then drawing conclusions about how to improve those things. Benefits of lab usability testing. Things to watch out for. What is lab usability testing?

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thenetsetter.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Blogging tools, video hosting services, image hosting services and the like, all make this a very accessible place to start up. Between the long traditions of forum and chat software and the rapidly growing areas of social networking services, you can build a significant community online without much in the way of hardcore development.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 21, 2020

For businesses, what’s the most effective way to approach building applications and software using no-code? But many no-code tools require some knowledge of coding to get the most out of the software or app. This post contains video, click to play]. We’ll take a look in this article. Will it be perfect? Limited in functionality.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Think about your own behavior: if you are like me, you hate having to deal with sales people, and greatly prefer to do your own research starting with search engines, and leveraging free trials, on-line videos, blogs, reviews, and your social network. For example: Create demo videos that answer every likely sales question.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 7, 2022

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! It includes training videos, spreadsheet, templates, checklists, cheat sheets, with all these benchmarks. I'm gonna lease you this, you know, cross-functional development team. But then the question I get is like, well, my team hates time sheets or pain in the ass.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 29, 2008

The technical interview is at the heart of these challenges when building a product development team, and so I thought it deserved an entire post on its own. For software engineers, I think this absolutely has to be a programming problem solved on a whiteboard. Still, a startup product development team is a service organization.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

Sometimes, a great hacker has the potential to grow into the CTO of a company, and in those cases all you need is an outside mentor who can work with them to develop those skills. At the end of the day, the product development team of a startup (large or small) is a service organization. I am basically a one-man shop.

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Up and Running

JUNE 12, 2015

Our guest and COO of Palo Alto Software, Noah Parsons, shares his favorite online tools to get your business up and running. Let’s just review them all and see what we like, see what we don’t like. Jonathan: Yeah, number two is when business development slows down and that’s from Andrew Thomas SkyBell Video Doorbell.

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mashable.com

MARCH 7, 2011

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Venture Chronicles

MAY 16, 2012

Ron Dennis from McLaren Group came on stage for a fantastic one-on-one talk with Snabe and I really enjoyed the video that opened this as well as the conversation. users and only 29m reviews doesn’t suggest a high degree of interaction. Overall, it was logical and confidence inspiring to hear him walk through this.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

Secondly you need some software to create flow charts in. When you set out to write your functional spec, you need to follow a clear structure so that your developers understand what you are saying. These serve to ensure that everyone who ends up on the development team knows what the system is for.

Web 40

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www.readwriteweb.com

DECEMBER 22, 2011

These were gigantic software installations, requiring six figure PO's and a phalanx of consultants to care for and feed these beasts. They were and still are the exclusive domain of the IT department, who treated them like other big-ticket software installations. Most CMS's are still the province of the dev team, and protected as such.

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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. Defensibility in Software. His Tenure at Microsoft.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

For example: If you want to sell videos, you dont need to say whats in the videos. Just “sell downloadable and streamable video files.” 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.” The translator rejects or approves.

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