Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Lo, my 1032 subscribers, who are you? ScienceDaily: Corporate culture is most important. The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: Five Whys Where did Silicon Valley come from? Take a look and let me know what you think. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 21, 2016

One of the best things about setting up a startup these days is that nothing is out of bounds thanks to the Internet. Helsinki, Finland. If you can handle the cold, you might want to consider setting up your operations in the Finnish capital, Helsinki! You can now trade with clients in other continents.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Lo, my 1032 subscribers, who are you? ScienceDaily: Corporate culture is most important. The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: Five Whys Where did Silicon Valley come from? Take a look and let me know what you think. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 19, 2009

For example, lets say you dont have an operations team, and so youre still getting paged late at night when servers crash. Is it time to make your first operations hire? Returning to our example of the beleaguered founder who still has the pager, before hiring an operations guy, try promoting someone from within to take on the job.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

Lo, my 1032 subscribers, who are you? ScienceDaily: Corporate culture is most important. The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: Five Whys Where did Silicon Valley come from? Take a look and let me know what you think. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

When I was a kid, the way I logged onto the internet for the first time (to play MUDs, naturally) was through an open dial-up console at San Diego State University. No logins, no codes, just raw uncensored internet access. these devices all need human instruction to enable correct and desired operation.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

Lo, my 1032 subscribers, who are you? ScienceDaily: Corporate culture is most important. The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: Five Whys Where did Silicon Valley come from? Take a look and let me know what you think. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

That’s why we have operations alerts trigger a page, but it can also work for other customer events. This is true for split-testing features, but it’s also true for marketing programs or even operations changes. When the incidence rate is small, emails or text messages are a great mechanism.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

As a consumer internet company with millions of customers, it may seem to have little relevancy for an enterprise software company with only a handful of potential customers, or a computer security company whose customers demand a rigorous audit before accepting a new release. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2010

With the advent of the Internet, it’s easy to think of the world as one locale for your business. I was once asked by a division manager of a major software company why we were not selling more products in Finland. Similar issues prevail when doing business in other countries, cultures and languages. HR rules are local.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 18, 2010

Many people still find this idea challenging, even for companies that operate solely on the web. Many people still find this idea challenging, even for companies that operate solely on the web. This case presents a further complication: desktop software. This case presents a further complication: desktop software.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 28, 2009

I understand why people would think that a consumer internet service like IMVU isnt really mission critical. You can train your operations or customer service staff on how it works - all live in the production environment. I understand why people would think that a consumer internet service like IMVU isnt really mission critical.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

There is not "just product development" in a startup - the context of extreme uncertainty that we operate in means that every choice we make impacts the whole company. August 9, 2009 10:02 AM Mike said. One reason to distinguish between technical design and product design is that technical debt and product debt are different.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Compared to the million-dollar startup, they are operating at micro-scale. Let me describe a different company, one with only $30,000 in revenue (again, pure fiction). This company has a large long-term vision, but their current product is only a fraction of what they hope to build. How does that stack up?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 4, 2009

It connects to the internet to automatically download the necessary codes. Heres a representative view from an actual Amazon customer review : We all know how to operate our own entertainment center, but what happens when you have to explain it to your babysitter, mother-in-law, or your wife? They want to do activities.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

Lean vs. debt In the world of physical goods, the leaner a supply chain is, the less debt is required to operate it. The results were that the Israeli system became operational 10 years ago, while the THAAD project is starting to finally be deployed this year after 10 years of delay. pay 'interest').

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Because there are no tests for new features (or operational alerts for the production code), the code that supports those new features could go bad at any moment. The team cant get permission from the business leaders to get "extra time" for fixing. Take a look and let me know what you think. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 21, 2008

Lean startups operate by a different standard. Lean startups operate by a different standard." And, as the commenter rightly points out, this is not really a matter of efficiency. By the standard of "customer value," most innovation-seeking experiments are waste. aka "how you get to product/market fit.") Thanks for the response.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 23, 2009

Pretty soon you’re chasing your own tail a little bit because you’re not operating against a clear, long-term vision of what you’re trying to accomplish. Facebook Fans Recent & Upcoming Events 2010 I am experimenting with using Plancast to track my 2010 event schedule. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 13, 2009

Reinertsen weaves together ideas from lean manufacturing, maneuver warfare, queuing theory, and even the architecture of computer operating systems and the Internet. If we showed the Toyota Production System to an Internet protocol engineer, it is likely that he would remark, "That is a tail-dropping FIFO queue.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Lo, my 1032 subscribers, who are you? ScienceDaily: Corporate culture is most important. The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: Five Whys Where did Silicon Valley come from? Take a look and let me know what you think. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Not that ethics in experimentation has ever been very clear cut, but the internet has made things even weirder. He conducted all sorts of messed up studies around ‘ operant conditioning ‘ Well there are a few voices claiming that we’re entering a new age of Digital Skinner Box Marketing. You remember B.F.

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Pascal's View

APRIL 5, 2016

Let’s not forget that Microsoft had a huge monopoly in operating systems in the 90’s. Apple’s iOS & Google’s Android emerged, challenged, and overtook operating system dominance in the space of a few short years.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 19, 2008

FYI the surveymonkey link isnt operational. November 19, 2008 5:57 PM McElroy Flavelle said. Hi Erik, Im a independent games producer based in Vancouver. No idea how I found your blog but I follow it with my Google Reader. November 24, 2008 2:44 PM Eric said. Thanks for letting me know. Lo, my 1032 subscribers, who are you?

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

It is also to promote the book for sure, but the idea is that while there is quite a lot of material around this topic, it is scattered all over the Internet. If a Singapore company wants to operate in Asia, you simply have to live in Malaysia, China, Taiwan and see how the Singapore company can add value to those consumers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

Lo, my 1032 subscribers, who are you? ScienceDaily: Corporate culture is most important. The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: Five Whys Where did Silicon Valley come from? Take a look and let me know what you think. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 29, 2008

Some questions have a natural escalation path (like working through the standard operations on a linked-list) and others require some more creativity. Any of these answers can work, and depending on what they choose, it usually makes sense to keep probing along these lines: which operations are the most expensive?

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Hes a new employee, and he was not properly trained in TDD So far, this isnt much different from the kind of analysis any competent operations team would conduct for a site outage. For my first time, it was scalability problems and our operations team. why didnt operations get paged? How do you get started with five whys?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 7, 2009

The idea was that these two people would operate as a unit, with the mentors job performance during this period evaluated by the performance of the new person. Because this was such a big cultural change for most new employees, we didnt leave them to sink or swim on their own. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Have you met that prickly operations guy who seems to love servers more than people (but would never let them fail on his watch)? Even worse, in my opinion, is that I know there are at least a few readers out there who read the previous paragraph and thought, "those arent hard choices to make; its obvious what you should choose."

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 9, 2009

And instead of design, engineering, QA, and operations we have a solution team implementing a startup-centric version of agile development. So instead of having sales, marketing, and business development, we have a problem team implementing customer development. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 8, 2008

Maybe operations has changed the OS configuration in production in a way that is incompatible with some developers change. The reason its a risk is that, until you integrate, you dont know if the code is going to work. Maybe two different developers made changes to the same underlying subsystem, but in incompatible ways.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 22, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, November 22, 2008 Net Promoter Score: an operational tool to measure customer satisfaction Ive mentioned Net Promoter Score (NPS) in a few previous posts, but havent had a chance to describe it in detail yet. Lo, my 1032 subscribers, who are you? ScienceDaily: Corporate culture is most important.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

I’ve seen many times what happens when a single department get’s holed-up in its own space, like the terrifying “ operations cave.&# I’ve seen many times what happens when a single department get’s holed-up in its own space, like the terrifying “ operations cave.&#

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Of course, the real thanks should go to a startup - Gogo Inflight Internet - that I was lucky enough to meet at a recent workshop. The US is headed to be a second rate or third rate power if policy isn't changed to permit new and ground breaking applications to operate in large networks. Thanks guys!) Amen to this topic!

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 6, 2008

When youve mastered that, consider adding operations, customer service, marketing, product management, business development - the idea is that when the team needs to get approval or support from another department, they already have an "insider" who can make it happen. I rcommend you try building a cross-functional team and see what happens.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

I lived almost a year in Helsinki, Finland, and over six years in London, UK, where I had various experiences in fast paced market, even to the point of being a Creative Partner in my own company that was buried after several unpaid pitches, just after a half million pounds budget branding and launch campaign.

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