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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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Interestingly, research compiled from messaging threat protection service provider Cloudmark’s Global Threat Network actually places the United States as the top country in the world in terms of volume of email spam, followed by Brazil and France. they send less emails, but a large proportion of those can be spam).

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. I like the term because of two connotations: Lean in the sense of low-burn. Of course, many startups are capital efficient and generally frugal. The lean startup is an application of Lean Thinking.

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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. If you can handle the cold, you might want to consider setting up your operations in the Finnish capital, Helsinki! Paris, France. You can now trade with clients in other continents. Helsinki, Finland.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 30, 2011

Serial entrepreneur Weyrich has started three Internet companies and three mobile app companies since the age of 22, and recently sold a Catholic Dating service he owned and operated in 2007 to a competitor.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 12, 2012

While France has been a fertile ground for innovative start-ups, the new fiscal law threatens to disrupt an ecosystem that has slowly emerged over the past 12 years. While our investment focus covers all of Europe, we consider France to be a very important market for our business and we are actively seeking new investment opportunities.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

This was pre Internet. I showed up in Sophia Antipolis, France (living in Antibes if you know the area) and I was in “Network Solutions.” I got to help a telecom operator decide whether or not to bid on 3G spectrum and how much to pay. We got to define Internet offerings for one of the largest telcos in Europe.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 28, 2015

Updating what are often “pre-Internet” trade policies is crucial. 7] https://smallbusiness.fedex.com/international/country-snapshots/france. [8] 8] https://smallbusiness.fedex.com/international/country-snapshots/france. 1] [link]. [2] 3] “Enabling Grwoth for APEC SMEs”. November, 2014. [4] 4] [link]. [5] 5] [link]. [6]

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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

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

NOVEMBER 6, 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 20, 2009

Similar results apply in product management, design, testing, and even operations. When operating with continuous deployment, its almost impossible to have integration conflicts. In my experience, a few hours of coding is enough to produce a viable batch and is worth checking in and deploying. Small batches reduce overhead.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2010

In management jobs related to operations – that is, the people tasked with actually making and distributing physical products – this kind of thinking is now considered ludicrous, thanks to a century of progress. Probably not; it’s much easier to blame the particular person who made the mistakes.

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The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 7, 2013

subscribers and is the second biggest ISP in France, making this a significant move. Without ads the many, many, companies would suffer (including quite a few in our portfolio) and the internet as we know it would disappear. Free has 5.2m they insist on Net Neutrality ).

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2008

Indeed the first thing I thought when I read the first paragraphs that the product manager was operating in a white tower and that the developers felt disenfranchised. This post has been removed by the author. October 6, 2008 12:16 AM Vincent van Wylick said. Nice write-up. October 6, 2008 12:17 AM r& said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 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 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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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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Austin Startup

AUGUST 15, 2017

Working with global transportation provider RATP Dev, which operates the Capital Metro bus system, we’re installing Bluecats Bluetooth® Low Energy (BLE) beacons and intelligent Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) asset tracking solutions along the 2nd Street corridor. These beacons operate on the Connecthings SaaS platform, ADTAG.

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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

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 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

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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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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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 17, 2014

The same companies operate there and here. financial system does not operate as a perfect competition – in fact, it is far from it. Banking may be naturally prone to this calcification, and it is worth noting that the low credit card fees in Australia/France, as well as the FPS in the UK were the result of government intervention.

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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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ReadWriteStart

MAY 28, 2012

As an Internet business, I had a fixed amount of revenue coming in monthly that was not location-dependent,” he explains. “I Job, who will soon expand operations to the U.S., adds, “There are aspects of starting a company in France that could seem difficult to someone who isn’t French. The laws and regulations are different. [My

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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

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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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

After all, high-quality open source software is free, the cloud makes computer power far less expensive, and anyone with an Internet connection can learn Ruby and CSS. We also soon decided that we wanted to outsource as much of our operations to hosted services as we possibly could. Publisher Platform (P3). startupcto

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

And all of the other smart and operational decisions that have enabled Airbnb to weather the storm and go on to have one of the most successful public market debuts. Airbnb got scrutiny before we were big, because Airbnb meant the internet moving into your neighborhood. Well, that same thing can be said for any product.

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mashable.com

MARCH 7, 2011

A de facto requirement for any modern mobile operating system is the inclusion of a modern HTML5-compliant web browser. Likewise, BlackBerry and HP/Palm are also using WebKit and Microsoft is going to release a mobile version of Internet Explorer 9 for Windows Phone 7. All Rights Reserved. startupcto

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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

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

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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