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. Its a key lean startup concept. Great post!

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Mike Michalowicz

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

In the article ” The Case for Old Entrepreneurs ”, Stanford professor and Washington Post columnist Vivek Wadhwa shared a 2008 study researching the backgrounds of nearly 700 U.S. – born CEOs and heads of product development at successful companies, and learned that the average age of successful founders was 39.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Suddenly, those multi-million dollar financing rounds that startups raise don’t seem so outrageous! Oftentimes, the biggest costs with a product like Shopify come down to the decision-making process involved with the customer and product development expenditure,” explains Mathews. 4) WhatsApp.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Their product definition fluctuates wildly – one month, it’s a dessert topping, the next it’s a floor wax. 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.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 23, 2009

If you never have, you can create your own using Google Finance. If you never have, you can create your own using Google Finance. Have you ever built one of those charts that shows a metric over time, annotated with "key events" that explain what happened to the numbers at key inflection points? Go ahead and try it, then come back.

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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. Good luck, engineering manager. It was painful for a lot of people.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

Among those: plentiful financing and nerds , a culture that celebrates both failure and success, and an ethos of openness and sharing. Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, November 11, 2008 Where did Silicon Valley come from? Its useful to look back to understand how we got those advantages. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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