Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and in 2009 he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. Bring your questions. Amazon PostRank

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

It’s easy to overestimate the impact of this kind of traffic because it just feels good to have your name and company featured. Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you? April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. It strokes your ego. Bring your questions.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, September 10, 2008 Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your code right now Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your code right now A great checklist of techniques and tools for making your development more agile, written from a Rail perspective. Bring your questions.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

Customer development is a parallel process to product development, which means that you dont have to give up on your dream. Our goal in product development is to find the minimum feature set required to get early customers. Phases of product & company growth. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

As a result, for a lot of these companies, Boulder is just a gateway to San Francisco. Accept that many successful companies are going to want to be backed by big-name firms in other cities. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. TechStars encourages them to go wherever opportunities take them. Bring your questions.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 30, 2009

I want to thank Techstars for putting this event together and giving me a chance to experience the scene, even if it lacks a name. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Traveling to new startup hubs is one of my favorite things about being able to do this full-time. For what its worth, I like Silicon Mountain. Bring your questions.

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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

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. a is name, b is address, and c is tax percentage.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 13, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, July 13, 2009 The Principles of Product Development Flow If youve ever wondered why agile or lean development techniques work, The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development by Donald G. Reinertsen is the book for you.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 26, 2009

The key to successful integration of customer feedback is to make each kind of collection part of the regular company discipline of building and releasing products. Anyone who has worked in a real-world product development team can tell you how utopian that sounds. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

Startups especially can benefit by using technical debt to experiment, invest in process, and increase their product development leverage. The biggest source of waste in new product development is building something that nobody wants. Leverage product development with open source and third parties.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 19, 2009

Much of what I have found effective is counter-intuitive, because it requires investing more effort in each hire - all in the name of efficiency. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. This can be especially challenging for HR professionals who measure their success based on the number of jobs they fill. Bring your questions.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 2, 2020

But just how interesting is this place outside of its fancy reputation and name? Silicon Valley”: Behind the Name. The exact name didn’t come from a vacuum, though. It was Don Hoefler who first used the name Silicon Valley, USA. And we’ve got more scoops about its name. San Jose is the biggest city.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

We're starting our new business, fanminder.com, to help small merchants instantly communicate with their customers, and I'm increasingly hearing your name and reading your keen insights. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Keep them coming, they're a help.Maybe one day we'll meet up. Bring your questions.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 18, 2010

Recently, he was bitten by the lean startup bug and has started writing about his experiences attempting to apply lean startup and customer development principles. Ive previously named his post Achieving Flow in a Lean Startup as one of my favorite blog posts of 2009. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Bring your questions.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

If youre a startup investor, and you support the goals of the Startup Visa proposal, wed like you lend your name to our efforts. If youre a startup investor, and you support the goals of the Startup Visa proposal, wed like you lend your name to our efforts. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Bring your questions.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 3, 2009

I was delighted to be asked to give a brief talk about the MVP at the inaugural meetup of the lean startup circle here in San Francisco. First, a definition: the minimum viable product is that version of a new product which allows a team to collect the maximum amount of validated learning about customers with the least effort.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

The tactic is to place information with intended value (and a bit of brand name-dropping) in the stream. Vice President of Product Development and Content Strategy at SFGate and the San Francisco Chronicle John Miller offered up some advice. An ad by any other name.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

The same is true of brand-name products in almost every category (and it can be measured ). All gifting-type products are influenced by this source, as Hallmark has long understood. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. This is always true, because modern economies have become increasingly virtual over the years.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

One of the sayings I hear from talented managers in product development is, “good enough never is.&# And, most importantly, it helps team members develop the courage to stand up for these values in stressful situations. Naturally, we already know the standard of quality that they will use to judge our product.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2009

Pay attention to whether people are comfortable “naming names&# in the meeting. Labels: five whys root cause analysis , product development 15comments: Anonymoussaid. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Why didn’t our tests/QA/immune system catch and prevent the problem? Bring your questions.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 4, 2015

by Melissa Lincoln, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Leadspace. San Francisco and Tel Aviv are two of the greatest cities in the world for tech, each with a distinct culture and unique benefits to offer. Let’s start with San Francisco. They live where the top customers live.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

All the good domain names were taken, all the good ideas were being implemented. If Id bought just a handful of the "best of the rest" domain names that were available at the time (for a whopping $70 each), I probably could have just retired right then. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Bring your questions.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Optimize product development and marketing process. Understand how to monetize a product based on actual user needs. It is a good way to justify market demand for a product and then get support from investors or partners. Let’s take a look at minimal viable products, developed by popular companies.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 22, 2009

Pivotal Labs doesn't carry "Pivot" in its name by accident. I'm glad there's a 'name' for this part of the process Eric. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Thank you for your nice posting. I am very happy while reading your blog. August 24, 2009 1:42 AM RubyFocus Groups said. I like this term.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

In a lot of cases, thats just a fancy name for revenue or profit, but not always. This development philosophy created a culture around rapid prototyping of features, followed by testing them against large numbers of actual customers. It would be hard to argue against this product development strategy, in general.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 31, 2009

lets you post a description of a job without having to reveal the name of the company who is offering it, or the contact information of the hiring manager. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Its incredibly simple, and its called joblink.tw. Think of it as a bit.ly Using it to recruit takes less than a minute. Bring your questions.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 16, 2009

As Im pontificating about agile, I see the name Kent Beck in my peripheral vision. Eric Names matter. By pulling in a web of associations, names help people quickly assess ideas. There is a dark side to naming. The naming question has been raised about the "lean" in Lean Startups. Eric Names matter.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

If necessary, consider doing this under a different brand name than the one you are wedded to using. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Dont do PR upfront, dont put out a press release. Figure out how to launch quietly, so you can find out what your retention and referral rates are going to be. Its like knowing the future.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 1, 2009

Also SJ's obsession with better taste (positively) contributes to the overall product development process. There are some good anecdotes about Chief Engineers in the Toyota Product Development Book. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. I really enjoyed this article, my first time reading any of your stuff.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Who doesnt want to see their name in print? gave us two years of a beta product to build up the service and the brand awareness. Now that were beginning our first marketing, the key partners we need have heard our name long enough to trust us. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Founders push for it.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Even with only a few months of development, third parties have crammed every single category in the store full of apps. All I see is a name, an icon, a price, the developers name, and a review star-rating. Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you? I cant really tell.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Now, whenever I screen resumes, I ask the recruiter to black out any demographic information from the resume itself: name, age, gender, country of origin. Now, whenever I screen resumes, I ask the recruiter to black out any demographic information from the resume itself: name, age, gender, country of origin. “Who is this guy?&#

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

We would pretty much bid on any phrase that was "[name of competitive product] chat" and variations like that. Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you? April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. We tried obvious competitors as well as long-shots. Bring your questions.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Ironically, meetings like this had given data and experimentation a bad name inside this company. Why was a team this smart, this disciplined, and this committed to waste-free product development creating so much waste? Ironically, meetings like this had given data and experimentation a bad name inside this company.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 7, 2010

In fact, the curse of product development is that sometimes small things make a huge difference and sometimes huge things make no difference. I’m sure other disciplines have their own names for it; even protozoans exhibit this behavior (its called taxis ). I understand and respect why optimizers want to do tests like that.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 24, 2009

April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Expo New York New York, NY Nov 19 The Lean Startup at MIT Boston, MA Nov 20 Lunch workshop at Dogpatch Labs Boston, MA Dec 17 Lean Startup Cohort program begins San Francisco, CA KISSmetrics KISSmetrics is loading. Bring your questions. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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