Lightspeed Venture Partners

APRIL 12, 2016

His nickname is Tank and I wouldn’t have minded having him as a teammate in my rugby playing days either, holding me up in the scrum! He’s the cofounder and former CTO of LivingSocial, and over the past few years has angel invested in companies such as Shyp, LendingHome, Walker & Co, and also sits on the board of a YC alumni ThinAir.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

For nearly every organization that has grown beyond a very early stage startup, one of the most common, yet difficult, questions is the optimal way to split up the product work. The key is not to drive the product structure around the engineering teams, but rather to work together with engineering to move together into alignment.

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Gust

AUGUST 22, 2012

Giza was just a one-day side trip on my main mission: Visiting a tech startup tucked away in Alexandria, a bustling seaside metropolis of 5 million. Building a startup is one of the riskiest endeavors to begin with, so predictability is key, even in the face of known adversity. Silicon Arabia has engineers in Russia as well as Egypt.)

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

I have been thinking a lot about what a new version of this test would look like, given what Ive seen work and not work in startups. but I have not seen that dysfunction in any of the startups I advise, so hopefully its behind us. There are several ways to make progress evident - the Scrum team model is my current favorite.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 6, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, December 6, 2008 The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: part three Those startups that manage to build a product people want have to deal with the consequences of that success. And still being a startup means continuing to innovate as well as keep the lights on.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 9, 2009

MarkH : Key takeaways from Erics great talk #w2e #leanstartup 1) "building a culture to learn " @ericries Marks point is the one that seems to have had the biggest impact from the talk as a whole: that startups should be built to learn. No engineering team. ericries s talk on Lean Startups absolutely fantastic.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2008

But I have a special sympathy for the "product manager" in a startup that is bringing a new product to a new market, and doing their work in large batches. The VP Engineering spends all of his time trying to make sure the programmers understand and implement the spec. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 22, 2008 You dont need as many tools as you think Im always excited to see someone else writing about lessons learned from their startup, and wanted to link today to Untitled - Startup Lessons Learned -- Take it with a grain of salt. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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adam.heroku.com

MAY 18, 2012

Some startups, on reaching this stage, declare “we’ve got to grow up and act like a real company now” and immediately try to switch to heavy-handed tactics. For example: full-fledged SCRUM, heavyweight tools like Jira, or hiring a project manager or engineering manager. Don’t do that stuff.

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SVPG

JUNE 5, 2015

” These might be user stories or they might be more like some form of a functional spec but it’s purpose is to communicate with the designers and engineers what needs to be built. Finally the requirements and design specs make it to engineers. This is usually where Agile finally enters the picture.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

The human tendency to moralize about debt affects engineers, too. Startups especially can benefit by using technical debt to experiment, invest in process, and increase their product development leverage. In a startup, we should take full advantage of our options, even if they feel dirty or riddled with technical debt.

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Scalable Startup

JANUARY 15, 2015

Tom Nora Startup Whisperer, Web Market Development. I’m a startup growth consultant who started a digital marketing + web development agency due to such high demand from my startup clients. Work directly with engineers, no company involved. Also, it is not about the engineering talent only!

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

How would one set up such a startup to eventually raise capital from outside VCs, who will be wary of ‘dead equity’ (i.e., When the value of the studio’s participation is effectively a commodity (like office space, engineering, capital, etc), the equation flips and should be to the advantage of the founders. What are the timelines?

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

Its even more critical in lean startups when they need to manage growth. At IMVU , we called this person a Producer (revealing our games background); in Scrum , they are called the Product Owner. Once an agreement is reached, the Chief Engineer continually watches to make sure that the functions are following through.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

If you think the product manager job is what’s described in a Certified Scrum Product Owner class, you almost certainly fall into this category. Necessity being the mother of invention, this is where the queue, the ratings system, and the recommendation engine all came from. The title is not important; the work they do is.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 14, 2020

In each case, an extension to the existing solution was shipped in a search engine–friendly way and now drives a lot of organic traffic, while also improving the product. First, they have to be publicly accessible for users and search engines. Unless you’re a small, agile startup, shipping new features isn’t as simple as it sounds.

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SVPG

MARCH 10, 2016

For many years, as teams move to Agile methods (they usually start with Scrum), many companies decide to contract with or hire an Agile Coach. These people are there to help the broader team – especially engineers, QA, product managers and product designers – to learn the methods and mindset involved in moving to Agile.

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ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

JULY 11, 2012

I cover several topics including agile software development, software startups, web 2.0, The implementation and architecture can also suffer if the team under or over invests engineering time, implementation of standards, or testing discipline in the wrong areas. Startups and Enterprises. startup cto. (18). Older Post.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

It’s Episode 3 my little “ Loveline for startups. ” Introduced a few months ago as an Austin event, I’m now doing this live audio advice column to the web, taking phone calls from startups around the country. My co-hosts were Bob Walsh and Patrick Foley , hosts of the well-known Startup Success Podcast.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

So now I'm home-based in Austin, Texas and I'm spending a lot of time with a lot of startups and a lot of CEOs that are trying to scale their companies. They were 90 minute, I'll call it, sprints and the team started scrumming really as soon as we got back on Saturday night. They aren't USAA members, but"- Eric Ries : Oh, that's great.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

As a new startup, you’re likely well aware of how inventory costs money and how those costs can quickly add up the longer you go without orders. See Also: Estimating Realistic Startup Costs. See Also: How to Solve Problems in Your Business: Kanban, Kaizen, and Scrum. These costs are even higher for manufacturers.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Nothing essential that I disagree with you in your post, but when read by other people with minimal software engineering experience, they can have too high expectations. I am a Ruby on Rails programmer and have written the first line of code for a few startups. Greg C (2010-06-19) # These are great suggestions. See how it works?

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