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Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008CustomerDevelopment Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. Its a nice complement on the product engineering side to his customerdevelopment methodology.
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, September 13, 2008SEM on five dollars a day How do you build a new product with constant customer feedback while simultaneously staying under the radar? SEM is a simple idea. Only much later did I realize that this was an application of customerdevelopment to online marketing.
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 22, 2008 The three drivers of growth for your business model. Master of 500 Hats: Startup Metrics for Pirates (SeedCamp 2008, London) This presentation should be required reading for anyone creating a startup with an online service component. Choose one.
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, November 7, 2008 Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online service, step-by-step If you want to build an online service, and you dont test it with a fake AdWords campaign ahead of time, youre crazy. Dont worry about selecting particularly good keywords, if youre new to SEM. I used to use $.05,
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 8, 2008 The lean startup Ive been thinking for some time about a term that could encapsulate trends that are changing the startup landscape. The application of agile development methodologies which dramatically reduce waste and unlock creativity in product development. Less is more.
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 15, 2008 The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time Split-testing is a core lean startup discipline, and its one of those rare topics that comes up just as often in a technical context as in a business-oriented one when Im talking to startups. September 15, 2008 9:12 PM Hitchens said.
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 30, 2008 What does a startup CTO actually do? October 1, 2008 2:13 AM archenland said. Great article youre now in my rss feeds :) October 2, 2008 4:37 AM kamilski81 said. October 2, 2008 8:58 AM Chad said. October 2, 2008 8:58 AM Chad said. Great piece! Great post!
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, September 18, 2008 Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you? When you have an infinitesimal number of customers, it can be embarrassing. But as long as your ego can take it, there are huge advantages to having a small number of customers. September 19, 2008 2:08 PM gmlk said.
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 2, 2008 Just-In-Time Scalability At my previous company, we pioneered an approach to building out our infrastructure that we called "Just-In-Time Scalability." The Entrepreneur’s Guide to CustomerDevelopment ► June (3) What is a startup?
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 2, 2008 Ideas. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to CustomerDevelopment ► June (3) What is a startup? How to listen to customers, and not just the loud. Learn I like theory too much. But hey, its what helps me think about problems.
The Entrepreneur’s Guide to CustomerDevelopment ► June (3) What is a startup? How to listen to customers, and not just the loud. Waves of technology platforms The lean startup CustomerDevelopment Engineering Greasemonkey compiler Great open source scalability tools from Danga Ideas.
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, September 5, 2008 Great open source scalability tools from Danga If you are trying to build a scalable LAMP service, its always best to start with the original and still quite relevant presentation, from Brad Fitzpatrick when he was at LiveJournal. How to listen to customers, and not just the loud.
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, September 10, 2008 A new version of the Joel Test (draft) (This article is a draft - your comments are especially welcome as I think through these issues. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to CustomerDevelopment ► June (3) What is a startup? Please leave feedback!)
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 14, 2008 How to listen to customers, and not just the loud people Frequency is more important than talking to the "right" customers, especially early on. Youll know when the person youre talking to is not a potential customer - they just wont understand what youre saying.
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, September 18, 2008 How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone I have had the opportunity to meet a lot of iPhone-related companies lately. 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.
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.
Do some CustomerDevelopment instead. Dont chicken out and do a closed beta; get real customers in through real renewable channels. Start with a five-dollar-a-day SEM campaign. the most sensible SEM advice Ive read - discussed in the context of a real situation. Help you raise money. But dont be too sure.
Ive told the story of how this desperation turned us on to Google AdWords in SEM on five dollars a day. We used those five dollars to buy 100 clicks, every single day, in the hopes that some of those people would become paying customers. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to CustomerDevelopment ► June (3) What is a startup?
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 2, 2008 On deployment My favorite question to ask a software development team is "how do you do a release." The Entrepreneur’s Guide to CustomerDevelopment ► June (3) What is a startup? How to listen to customers, and not just the loud.
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 1, 2008 Test-Driven Development as andon cord You cannot control what you cannot see, and the hardest part of managing software projects is that the final product is so intangible. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to CustomerDevelopment ► June (3) What is a startup?
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 28, 2008 The lean startup comes to Stanford Im going to be talking about lean startups (and the IMVU case in particular) three times in the next two weeks at Stanford. September 28, 2008 6:13 PM Eric said. September 28, 2008 7:26 PM Jeff Hammerbacher said. Can I go to one of them?
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, September 10, 2008 Seth Godin: How often should you publish? The Entrepreneur’s Guide to CustomerDevelopment ► June (3) What is a startup? How to listen to customers, and not just the loud. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 8, 2008 Waves of technology platforms I still remember the first time I switched to LAMP. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to CustomerDevelopment ► June (3) What is a startup? How to listen to customers, and not just the loud. 1 comments: flixsterwidgettest said.
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 16, 2008 How to Usability Test your Site for Free Noah Kagan has a great discussion of usability testing which can help get you over the "thats too hard" or "thats too expensive" fear. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to CustomerDevelopment ► June (3) What is a startup?
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, September 10, 2008 Marc Prenskys Weblog: Cell Phones in Class Marcs writing has been a huge influence on me in thinking through the consequences of the way the current generation of "digital natives" is educated. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to CustomerDevelopment ► June (3) What is a startup?
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, September 6, 2008 Greasemonkey compiler Ive been incredibly impressed by Greasemonkey , the Firefox add-on that lets you easily extend the browser with simple Javascript. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to CustomerDevelopment ► June (3) What is a startup?
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 29, 2008 Q&A with an actual reader One of my favorite things about having a blog is the feedback I get in comments and by email. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to CustomerDevelopment ► June (3) What is a startup? How to listen to customers, and not just the loud.
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 2, 2008 Not crossing the chasm What does life feel like in the chasm ? The Entrepreneur’s Guide to CustomerDevelopment ► June (3) What is a startup? How to listen to customers, and not just the loud. How do you plan for it?
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 22, 2008 Thoughts on scientific product development I enjoyed reading a post today from Laserlike (Mike Speiser), on Scientific product development. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to CustomerDevelopment ► June (3) What is a startup?
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 22, 2008 You dont need as many tools as you think Im always excited to see someone else writing about lessons learned from their startup, and wanted to link today to Untitled - Startup Lessons Learned -- Take it with a grain of salt. How to listen to customers, and not just the loud.
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, October 7, 2008 The App Store after the gold rush I wrote earlier about the issue of distribution advantage on the iPhone. Acqusition competition is how new apps get new customers. On the web, we have many of these channels: SEM, SEO, world of mouth, PR and viral.
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