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

JUNE 8, 2009

So the product development team was busy creating lots of split-tests for lots of hypotheses. That’s causing the Product Owner and team to spend more time with each other reviewing the results of experiments, which is allowing them to learn and iterate much faster. They’ve learned to see this waste.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

Nick Kishfy is the CEO of MojoTech , a design and development agency with offices in Providence, RI and New York, NY. If you’ve ever looked for a design and development agency to build your product, you know that lack of options is not a problem in this industry. Leverage those relationships.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 18, 2010

Lean Startups waste less money, because they use a disciplined approach to testing new products and ideas. Lean, when used in the context of lean startup, refers to a process of building companies and products using lean manufacturing principles applied to innovation. Myth: The Lean Startup methodology is only for Web 2.0/internet/consumer

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 29, 2010

Heres an example from a recent Hacker News discussion : " how can you be a lean startup if you have to pay $699 to know how to be lean? Of course, readers of this blog know that the lean in "lean startup" doesnt refer to cost, but - rather - to Lean Thinking. 699 buys you months of server infrastructure."

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

One is used by engineers to refer to the process of getting code fully integrated into production. Another is used by marketing to refer to what customers see. In traditional batch-and-queue development, these two concepts are linked. All customers will see the new software as soon as it’s deployed.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 3, 2009

I've started a Wikipedia page for the Minimum Viable Product to burn it into my brain. You refer to an anonymous Valley-based MMORPG that consumed years and tens of millions in development, but got little commercial traction. August 3, 2009 8:08 PM William Mitchell said. There was only one such company.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

First OODA reference: Ideas. You can also witness the start of my speaking marathon in Built to learn , or leave a comment on my (still-draft) A new version of the Joel Test (draft). Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 31, 2009

I've been copy pasting large chunks of my reference emails. 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. I'll definitely try this out.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2009

Labels: five whys root cause analysis , product development 15comments: Anonymoussaid. It would make article more approachable initially, and easier to scan when I go back to reference it. " paragraph have the heading "Training New Hires", above the "Returning to the meeting itself.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 5, 2008

So, for reference, I am Adam, of [link]. Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you? [link] And - of course - going through [link] and reading up on the various different approaches different companies have (successfully) taken towards getting scalability at reasonably low cost.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

To be clear, though, this diversity refers only to diversity of opinion, not necessarily to demographic diversity. To be clear, though, this diversity refers only to diversity of opinion, not necessarily to demographic diversity. So why is demographic diversity important? Demographic diversity is an indicator.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I'll add two ideas: The modern structure of university patent licensing and technology transfer works really well in the life sciences and other fields with expensive product development processes. What were you referring to? Not being sarcastic here, I'm actually curious.) September 9, 2009 5:56 AM Dr. Bobsaid.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 30, 2008

They work steady hours, but not for lack of drive; their references say they have exceptional output. 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.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 3, 2009

What their blogs lack entirely is any concrete reference to the style of management you described on this post. 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.

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Designmantic Blog

MARCH 6, 2018

This is true considering she is the author of the eBay ‘For Dummies’ series such as eBay Business ‘All-In-One Desk Reference for Dummies,’ ‘ Starting an eBay Business For Dummies’ as well as a range of other e-commerce related books. Website: talentculture.com. Website: kimkaupe.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 5, 2014

Make those tweaks before fully entering the market – and understand that, for most entrepreneurs, this is a process, not a single final product. Develop a Plan. As you develop a business plan and a roll-out plan, and think about each step along the way, and what you will need to take each step. How can you help them?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

And in MMOs, of course, it was a fiction-derived term for parallel servers which has managed to stick (many people refer to parallel VW servers as "shards" now). A quick Google seems to show it as a term coming from someone who worked at Flickr. which came of course, from an MMO project (Game Neverending). Did a DB term of art come from UO?

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

what are the most crucial steps to be taken by a new tech startup when outsourcing major part of the tech to IT firms or outsourcing “product development” eg new social media website project? Near shoring development with your team (ex: your team is based in Canada / India) is cool, but not outsourcing.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Take this fictional example of a Seedcamp attendee (actually a composite), which I will refer to as Hairbrush 2.0. Read the rest of Myth: Entrepreneurship Will Make You Rich Also take a look at the great Hacker News discussion of this essay. If you only want to do one of these things, there are better options.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 22, 2008

I know you probably can't say exactly which issue you were referring to, but was this issue 'behind the doors' so to speak or was this a public issue that up-to-date IMVU-ers would have been familiar with (and thus actively uneasy about)? . Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

Its important to understand how these companies see you: your resume looks like crap, your references are poor or nonexistent, and you dont have the mandated 10 years of experience in J2EE ERP CRM WTF. In the world of startups, this is like trying to sell a product to a very demanding customer who needs to see a lot of features before buying.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 20, 2009

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. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Eric, I agree with everyone above about referring to people who loudly voice their opinions as trolls. I often am brought to tears when I see someone post for help at the forum, and they are referred to the help ticket system. And good reference how after years of problems exposed, nothing or very little has IMVU done.

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