Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Thats why eBay advertises on search engines, and Facebook doesnt. Labels: search engine marketing 0comments: New comments are not allowed. Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you? Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

The application of agile development methodologies which dramatically reduce waste and unlock creativity in product development. See Customer Development Engineering for my first stab at articulating the theory involved) Ferocious customer-centric rapid iteration, as exemplified by the Customer Development process.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, September 13, 2008 SEM on five dollars a day How do you build a new product with constant customer feedback while simultaneously staying under the radar? Trying to answer that question at IMVU led me to discover Google AdWords and the world of search engine marketing. SEM is a simple idea.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 3, 2009

Refreshing to finally see lean and agile thinking emerge in product/business-floors and not only in technology. Critical also, as the lean company/start-up can not be lean by just using lean principles in IT and not in Product Development/Management - a common misinterpretation of the Toyota Production System.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

In a startup, both the problem and solution are unknown, and the key to success is building an integrated team that includes product development in the feedback loop with customers. 2008 09 06 Eric Ries Haas Columbia Customer Development Engineering View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. Bring your questions.

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AUGUST 30, 2008

This basic pattern is useful in all aspects of product development. Much better is to infer the right toolkit by searching for commonalities among actually-built experiences. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Bring your questions.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you? Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. Q&A with an actual reader The lean startup comes to Stanford You don't need as many tools as you think The three drivers of growth for your business mode.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Its inspired by the classic OODA Loop and is really just a simplified version of that concept, applied specifically to creating a software product development team. There are three stages: We start with ideas about what our product could be. Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you?

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bizthoughts.mikelee.org

MARCH 8, 2012

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you? Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. Q&A with an actual reader The lean startup comes to Stanford You don't need as many tools as you think The three drivers of growth for your business mode.

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JUNE 2, 2010

Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. Startup Lessons Learned season two : Every post from the blogs second year in print form. Startup Lessons Learned for Kindle Startup Lessons Learned - the conference. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Bring your questions.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Its had tremendous impact in many areas: continuous deployment , just-in-time scalability , and even search engine marketing , to name a few. I owe it originally to lean manufacturing books like Lean Thinking and Toyota Production System. The batch size is the unit at which work-products move between stages in a development process.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Github - Free public repositories, collaborator management, issue tracking, wikis, downloads, code review, graphs Pivotal Tracker – Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you? Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. Q&A with an actual reader The lean startup comes to Stanford You don't need as many tools as you think The three drivers of growth for your business mode.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

And if you dont know who your customer is, perhaps some customer development is in order? Labels: customer development , search engine marketing 13comments: Jim Lindstrom said. Seems like a fairly low-cost method of gauging customer interest for a would-be product. Eric -- This is a pretty interesting idea.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 16, 2009

Ever since that time, I have struggled to explain how the feedback loop in customer development should interface with the feedback loop in product development. Eric Ries Lean Startup Schematic View Of Agile Development And Customer Development View more presentations from Eric Ries. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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OCTOBER 5, 2008

But first I think we need to save the product manager from that special form of torture only a waterfall product development team can create. Labels: product development 8comments: Vincent van Wylick said. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers.

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AUGUST 2, 2008

Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. Startup Lessons Learned season two : Every post from the blogs second year in print form. Startup Lessons Learned for Kindle Startup Lessons Learned - the conference. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Bring your questions.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 5, 2008

Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you? Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. Q&A with an actual reader The lean startup comes to Stanford You don't need as many tools as you think The three drivers of growth for your business mode.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 18, 2010

If youre interested in contributing a case study for publication here, consider getting started by adding it to the Lean Startup Wiki case study section. I try and follow a formalized Five Whys process (using our internal wiki) for every error. I try and follow a formalized Five Whys process (using our internal wiki) for every error.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 2, 2009

My son is planning a software product that will take the mystery out of wikis and make the technology easier for consumers to use. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. You can read the article to find out why. 3comments: Charles Crawford said. Thank you for this excellent article.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 30, 2009

Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. Startup Lessons Learned season two : Every post from the blogs second year in print form. Startup Lessons Learned for Kindle Startup Lessons Learned - the conference. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Bring your questions.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2009

We started with a simple wiki page with a few bullet points of things that new engineers had tripped over recently. Labels: five whys root cause analysis , product development 15comments: Anonymoussaid. Instead of telling people to look for *the* root cause, I have them search for *a* or *some* root causes.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2009

None of it would have happened if we had plenty of cash, or were content to count our progress by traffic or product development milestones. Labels: product development 4comments: Doug said. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. Thank you Eric. Bring your questions.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Not many customers ever browse the app directory or search for specific apps - they dont have to, they find out about apps by being invited by a friend. If your site is consistently ranked #1 for a given search term, you can make it very hard for someone else to compete for new customers. I havent found any yet.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 30, 2009

Without conscious process design, product development teams turn lines of code written into momentum in a certain direction. This is why agility is such a prized quality in product development. As far as I know, there are no products that are immune from the technology life cycle adoption curve.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

I am convinced one of Joel Spolskys lasting contributions to the field of managing software teams will turn out to be the Joel Test , a checklist of 12 essential practices that you could use to rate the effectiveness of a software product development team. Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2009

Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. Startup Lessons Learned season two : Every post from the blogs second year in print form. Startup Lessons Learned for Kindle Startup Lessons Learned - the conference. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Bring your questions.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

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. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Own the development methodology - in a traditional product development setup, the VP Engineering or some other full-time manager would be responsible for making sure the engineers wrote adequate specs, interfaced well with QA, and also run the scheduling "trains" for releases. Labels: product development 15comments: mukund said.

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JANUARY 7, 2010

Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. Startup Lessons Learned season two : Every post from the blogs second year in print form. Startup Lessons Learned for Kindle Startup Lessons Learned - the conference. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Bring your questions.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

Eric, Any thoughts on how forum feedback fits into customer development and agile product development? Youve probably addressed this in the past, but I continue to be blown away by how fast Blizzard reacts to noise in their forums and rapidly makes fixes to the product. . =) November 4, 2008 10:58 PM IMVU said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you? Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. Q&A with an actual reader The lean startup comes to Stanford You don't need as many tools as you think The three drivers of growth for your business mode.

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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. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

Eric, I landed upon your blog when I was searching for the path to CTO a couple of months back and I have been a frequent to the site since then. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. Ive founded and self-funded a (lean) startup on my own. Your "startup-lessons-learned" are very valuable.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2008

Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. Startup Lessons Learned season two : Every post from the blogs second year in print form. Startup Lessons Learned for Kindle Startup Lessons Learned - the conference. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Bring your questions.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you? Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. Q&A with an actual reader The lean startup comes to Stanford You don't need as many tools as you think The three drivers of growth for your business mode.

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