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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

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. October 20, 2008 9:34 PM Nivi said. October 20, 2008 10:36 PM Nathan said.

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Thank you

Startup Lessons Learned

When I first encountered customer development , it was considered pure lunacy by mainstream entrepreneurs and VCs. Entrepreneurship is the life-blood of our global civilization. When I first encountered customer development , it was considered pure lunacy by mainstream entrepreneurs and VCs. We all owe you.

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New conference website, speakers, agenda

Startup Lessons Learned

Each part of the program is organized around one phase of the Build-Measure-Learn feedback loop and begins with a keynote address from a heavy hitter: Steve Blank on Customer Development, Randy Komisar on "Getting to Plan B" and - a third person, not-yet-announced-but-extremely-cool-trust-me. People, not as much. People, not as much.

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Lessons Learned: Please teach kids programming, Mr. President

Startup Lessons Learned

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? a guide for hackers) You buy virtual goods The free software hiring advantage Continuous deployment and continuous learning The lean startup @ Web 2.0 these devices all need human instruction to enable correct and desired operation.

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

Instead, techniques like Five Whys teach us to view the entire application and product development team as one integrated system. Once we can see opportunities for truly global efficiency gains, all that remains is to ensure our team actually makes room for those investments. From this holistic viewpoint, we can optimize accordingly.

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International tour about to begin

Startup Lessons Learned

Exact dates for all events arent yet pinned down, but heres what Im working on so far: October 28 for a TBA event in Paris, November 2-7 for a series of events in Malmo, Sweden including Øredev , and ending with a workshop at the Martti Ahtisaari Institute of Global Business and Economics at the University of Oulu.

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Join the lean startup discussion at Facebook on Thursday

Startup Lessons Learned

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Priority will be given to employees of companies participating in the fbFund REV program, but I am confident that there will be room for members of the general public who want to attend. If youd like to reserve a spot, please RSVP.

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