Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, October 5, 2008 The product managers lament Life is not easy when youre working in an old-fashioned waterfall development process, no matter what role you play. I met one recently that is working on a really innovative product, and the stories I heard from their development team made me want to cringe.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 16, 2011

That's what Songkick 's Ian Hogarth did by creating a Startup Tools Wiki. Built to save others from "re-inventing the wheel," says Hogarth, the wiki gathers useful tools that startups have found and come to rely on. The wiki is meant to gather these resources in one place so companies that are getting started have a wiki to reference.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 11, 2010

The Hackathon manager should come up with an easy way to manage the team list (hint – wiki). In the best hackathons, there is a wiki that is very dynamic during the hackathon. Form teams. The teams should be between two and five people. The teams should be self-selecting. Demos and awards start at 5:30pm. Food is included.

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OnlyOnce

JUNE 5, 2014

Book short: Life Isn’t Just a Wiki. While there are serious benefits of remote work in terms of cost and individual productivity (particularly in maker roles), there are serious penalties to too much of it as well in terms of travel, communication burden, misunderstandings, and isolation. It’s not for everyone.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Carmen was the first CIA executive to envision many of the applications now used by CIA analysts, including online production, collaborative tools, and Intellipedia , the Intelligence Community-wide wiki developed by Don Burke and Sean Dennehy. Upon her retirement from CIA, she received the Distinguished Career Intelligence Medal.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

This level of integration allows users to see assignments, tasks, and relevant conversations via teams without having to manually update individual tasks helping keep everyone up to date and productive. Having a central knowledge repository is a great way for improving or maintaining productivity.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, April 26, 2009 Product development leverage Leverage has once again become a dirty word in the world of finance, and rightly so. But I want to talk about a different kind of leverage, the kind that you can get in product development. We didnt think wed able to compete with that.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2010

The Lean Startup Wiki (hosted by long-time lean startup pbWorks) contains a number of resources, including links to case studies , meetups, tools , and people who have volunteered to help. Its a wiki, feel free to consume and enhance it. Its a wiki, feel free to consume and enhance it. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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Spencer Fry

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Throughout my career as an entrepreneur, I've gotten my hands dirty in every area of the business: product, marketing, support, community, success, and so on, but at 19 people, I just haven't had the time to be everywhere at all times. We now have 6 product developers — if you include our CTO — and they're often working on different projects.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

And here’s a “ timeline of incidents ” on the GeekFeminism Wiki dating back to 1973, plus a list of sexually objectifying presentations from the past decade. We do want to do our best to actively support productive dialog among all conference participants. This isn’t a new phenomenon.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 23, 2013

This is especially true when designing a great product. Collaborative design is an approach that allows a team to create product concepts together. Some companies use wikis for their style guides, which allows the collection to stay current and accessible to everyone on the team. Other teams choose to create “live” style guides.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 23, 2010

When Quora went into Beta and became the “hip product to have access to&# in Silicon Valley I felt compelled to play around with it. And they are trying to bake in user adoption into the design of the product. It also feels very wiki like. Quora “Lite&#. So in a way it has built in game mechanics.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

They communicated this to product management who looked at all of the internal requirements we had generated (e.g. and product management worked with me to decide what to build & when. He published our first wiki where the whole list of potential features were outlined. They taped people using existing products.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 20, 2013

It’s a perpetuating cycle of call and response, a vortex of distraction and a black hole for productivity. Instead, create a wiki or a white paper to disseminate important information that will be repeatedly accessed by your team. This post originally appeared on the 15Five blog. Email is a huge time and efficiency suck.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

Startups, are not about executing a plan where the product, customers, channel are known. The product would leverage GPS and laser-based technologies and could be used on existing mower or farm equipment or built into new units. Unlike Groupon which offers one product deal per day chosen based on the customer’s location.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Others emphasize how to build a product. If you’ve read any of my previous posts, you know I believe that: 1) a product is just a part of a startup, but understanding customers, channel, pricing, etc. Therefore we developed a class to teach students how to think about all the parts of building a business, not just the product.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

As a follow-up to the post, Seth started a wiki so that people who might want to make this idea a reality could share ideas on putting it together. And aside from that, this story is a great illustration of how products happen. .&# The world was a-buzz. Could this app be created? Who would actually build this app?

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

A CTO will guide your product strategy, market validation, architectural decisions, process optimization, recruiting, and hiring. The Face of the Product and Technology A CTO is often the face of the technology and product. They will attend conferences and tradeshows to evangelize your product and technology.

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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. The biggest waste in manufacturing is created from having to transport products from one place to another. No one wants to be solely responsible for bringing a production system down.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

I love trying new products. I enjoy the process of trying new products like a kid opening a birthday present. Perhaps it’s the product manager in me that gets a kick out of figuring out how do they do onboarding? On the other hand, it’s really hard for a product to stand out in the crowd.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 4, 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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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

If you shop on Amazon, you know that reviews and product descriptions are very important trust-builders. One of my biggest pet peeves is when I go on Amazon, read a product description and go to a company’s website that has a different product description. Does the product have a 12-month warranty or a 24-month warranty?

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Venture Chronicles

JUNE 8, 2010

Is social CRM a product category or a collection of strategies that social media consultants and analysts are pushing? There are many analytics and monitoring tools, on the latter there are at last count over 100 products in the social media monitoring business.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 2, 2010

Five Whys has its origins in the Toyota Production System. And yet the key to startup speed is to maintain a disciplined approach to testing and evaluating new products, features, and ideas. Five Whys has its origins in the Toyota Production System. Techniques from lean manufacturing can be part of a startups innovation culture.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 29, 2013

Chris Kohlhardt co-founded Gliffy in 2005 to provide an easy way to embed diagrams within wikis, and today users can create org charts, Venn diagrams, flowcharts, floorplans and other diagrams via its Web service, and embed them within Word 2013, Google Docs or Atlassian Confluence.

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dontbesoanalytical.blogspot.com

MAY 13, 2012

The head of development spends his or her time working to keep the development team on track against a set of product plans. Inside the development organization, this Director attends to staffing, training, workload and productivity metrics, budget, and scheduling. The CTO might have a lab (for test purposes, not production or QA).

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 22, 2012

If you’re not familiar with SuperHappyDevHouse , it’s a social, hacker culture-type event and party that started in Silicon Valley in 2005 and today takes place all around the world for creative and curious people interested in technology to share knowledge, collaborate and generally have a great time creating new products.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 3, 2013

“Crowdsourcing is accelerating a new kind of social productivity – one that is transforming our social DNA in a highly networked world. Pictured: Sean Moffitt of Wiki Brands giving the opening address at Crowdsourcing Week 2013 earlier this eyar]. Early bird tickets will go on sale on December 12, 2013.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Thats the conclusion Ive come to after watching tons of online products fail for a complete lack of customers. Our goal is to find out whether customers are interested in your product by offering to give (or even sell) it to them, and then failing to deliver on that promise. Nothing made any difference.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 2, 2009

At IMVU, we were terrified by how early we shipped (and charged for) our first product. Despite that, we were able to establish credibility, because we used those early numbers to demonstrate that our customers were getting real value from our product and, more importantly, that we understood how to build more of it.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 25, 2010

This is the first post that moves into making specific process recommendations for product development. Everyone was in the flow; the team was hyper-productive. In many cases, they did the impossible, building a new product faster, cheaper, and better than anyone could have predicted. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 6, 2013

. “We wanted the inaugural conference to bring together speakers, practitioners and delegates to learn and discuss about how crowdsourcing and open innovation can play a key role in driving business successes, whether it’s about increasing productivity or revenue growth,” says Epi Ludvik Nekaj , CEO and founder of Crowdsourcing Week.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

The application of agile development methodologies which dramatically reduce waste and unlock creativity in product development. My belief is that these lean startups will achieve dramatically lower development costs, faster time to market, and higher quality products in the years to come. July 15, 2009 11:18 PM markmontgomery said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

You get increasing growth by optimizing the viral loop , and you get revenue as a side-effect, assuming you have even the most anemic monetization scheme baked into your product. Paid - if your product monetizes customers better than your competitors, you have the opportunity to use your lifetime value advantage to drive growth.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

For example, Confluence has an enterprise wiki. This is somewhat within the area of knowledge collecting and searching so they could be considered a competitor, but we are not trying to build a wiki of knowledge, we are trying to simplify centralization of knowledge.

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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 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. If you can build cars with it, Im pretty sure you can use it to add agility and flexibility to any product development process.

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