2009 Product Development SEM 
Startup Lessons Learned
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? SEM is a simple idea. In a mature company with a mature product, the goal is to pay for lots of people to come to your website.
Startup Lessons Learned
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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Startup Lessons Learned
NOVEMBER 7, 2008
Dont worry about selecting particularly good keywords, if youre new to SEM. SEM only gets at one segment of users, and for a brand new product, you presumably need some skill at marketing in general and adsense in particular to get any useful info. February 7, 2009 5:40 AM Major_Grooves said. I used to use $.05,
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.
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. February 14, 2009 11:12 PM Eric said. May 15, 2009 1:17 AM neocoder said.
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. 2008 09 06 Eric Ries Haas Columbia Customer Development Engineering View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. Sure, Id be delighted to.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 15, 2008
This gets me into trouble, because it conjures up for some the idea that product development is simply a rote mechanical exercise of linear optimization. You just constantly test little micro-changes and follow a hill-climbing algorithm to build your product. March 26, 2009 6:15 PM Will said.
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