Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Now, everyone is learning together - about your product, process, and team. Each five whys email is a teaching document. Wed never heard of five whys, and we had plenty of "agile skeptics" on the team. Stevey's Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile Learning from Obama: maneuver warfare on the campa. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

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. How about documentation that nobody reads? the data on a regular basis.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

The agile software movement has made numerous contributions: continuous integration, which helps accelerate feedback about defects; story cards and kanban that reduce batch size; a daily stand-up that increases tempo. It lets the customer and development team spot problems with calculations almost immediately. Expo SF (May.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 10, 2023

As a dynamic document, it remains rooted in your business's core objectives while flexibly responding to change. A well-documented plan has allowed us to adapt to market changes and pivot when necessary. This document provides essential clarity on your business vision and mission. Thanks to Cyble Rizwan, Social Sharings ! #10-

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2010

Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets. Learning is better than optimization (the local ma.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 17, 2010

But according to the theory, this should have been covered by the various specs and documentation we were rigorous about producing. Instead, we spent time making sure the exact behavior of the tools were well documented – by engineers, naturally. This led to some pretty bizarre situations. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 27, 2009

In fact, every single lean transformation documented in books like Lean Thinking took place in the midst of serious external threats. Customer Development : a disciplined approach to finding out if there is a market for your product before its too late. Combining agile development with customer developm.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 7, 2010

In fact, the curse of product development is that sometimes small things make a huge difference and sometimes huge things make no difference. When we’re optimizing, product development teams encounter similar situations. I mean, here we are, paying them to be there, and they won’t use the product!

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2009

Slides are below: The Lean Startup fbFund Edition View more documents from Eric Ries. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? Expo SF (May.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 26, 2012

Keep the team small, agile and up-to-date. Develop a strong backbone. The backbone of your technology company revolves around a well-organized, up-to-date, specific and documented vision, brand-key, business plan, intellectual property rights, contracts, financial administration, NDAs and bylaws it can rely on.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

That data is completely consonant with the people I know who are successful technologists today, and similar patterns are documented in each recent wave of technology innovation. I documented the lesson plans etc on [link] March 4, 2009 5:25 AM Eric said. I offered a programming class at the local school and. only two kids took it up!

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

What you’re holding in your hand is a revolutionary document. Do they have better sales, marketing, or product development groups? What the winners start with is the realization that in a world of continuous disruption, they have only a few years to develop new capabilities or be pushed over the brink.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 6, 2014

This process forced companies to release and launch products by model years, and market new and “improved” versions. In the last few years Agile and “Continuous Deployment” has replaced Waterfall and transformed how companies big and small build products. The Old Days – Waterfall Product Development.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 20, 2024

Then I document all I come across, that is the research component that all strategies begin with and it is the documenting process that triggers the thoughts, creativity, and ideas. Use Agile Practices: Adopting agile methodologies has promoted faster development and ongoing innovation at both my companies.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

We owe a lot to this seminal document. The economics of these process trade-offs are discussed in the Principles of Product Development Flow.) Heres an excerpt: In a previous article, we called Toyota’s product development system the “second Toyota paradox.&# it is very helpful for me. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 6, 2008

When youve mastered that, consider adding operations, customer service, marketing, product management, business development - the idea is that when the team needs to get approval or support from another department, they already have an "insider" who can make it happen. Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets.

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Transformify

JANUARY 2, 2021

1- Scrum: Scrum is an agile project management methodology with a focus on delivering products as fast as possible. As a more aggressive agile project management methodology, Kanban is all about releasing products faster by focusing only on the tasks that are important. 2- Design. 3- Implementation. 4- Verification.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

This post describes a solution – the Customer Development Model. In future posts I’ll describe how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provide the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 3, 2009

The Lean Startup fbFund Edition View more documents from Eric Ries. Use some customer development to find out. The power of A/B testing is so under-exploited in product development, that Im trying new ways to explain its benefits. If youre interested in seeing it, leave a comment and Ill see if I can get it online.)

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Lean Methodology consists of three tools designed for entrepreneurs building new ventures: The Business Model Canvas – to write down all the hypotheses about a new business; Customer Development – a process for testing those hypotheses outside the building; Agile Engineering – to rapidly build minimal viable products to test product/market fit.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

In this section, you really just want to document how your business will make money. In this section, you really just want to document how your business will make money. Another great way to test your idea is to create a minimum viable product, or MVP. This is the simplest version of your product minus the frills and frosting.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 18, 2010

More importantly, we’d witnessed Customer Development’s massive success at another local startup. We bought Steve’s book , started product development and began reaching out to customers ins search of our first earlyvangelists. Customer Development is like being Agile. Filed under: Customer Development.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Struggling to explain the successes and failures of those companies, I discussed principles like continuous deployment, customer development, and a hyper-accelerated form of agile. There's even a classic Wizard of Oz minimum viable product that dates back to 1998! The result: a new idea I called The Lean Startup.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 20, 2012

Here’s how: Develop the Product for the Few, Not the Many. Another path is to put product development on hold until the customer development team can find customers who can provide adequate feedback. The risk here is lost time and no product for customers to provide feedback against.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

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. Even worse, agile wasnt really helping me ship higher quality software.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

After 20 years of working in startups, I decided to take a step back and look at the product development model I had been following and see why it usually failed to provide useful guidance in activities outside the building – sales, marketing and business development. So what’s wrong the product development model?

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Education Guideline Book (1st Edition) Sep 2006 View SlideShare document or Upload your own. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? 1 comments: Desoja said.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 15, 2019

HR processes, legal processes, financial processes, acquisition and contracting processes, security processes, product development and management processes, and types of organizational forms etc. Process Versus Product. People who manage processes are not the same people as those who create product.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

For modifications, please edit the original document here. Scanning / Document Management. Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. Great for visualizing work of product development. Agile project management. agile product management. Agile eLearning.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

This post describes how the traditional product development model distorts startup sales, marketing and business development. The Use of a Product Development Model to Measure Sales Using the product development diagram for startup sales activities is like using a clock to tell the temperature.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Waterfall development shut off Iridium’s ability to listen, learn, test and adapt to changing customer needs and a rapidly changing market place. This business plan was a static document. Customer Development, Business Model Design and Agile Development could have changed the outcome. It All Came Crashing Down.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 10, 2018

For manufacturers, this means having the capability to establish fully connected and digitized supply chains where product development, marketing, production, and distribution are all fully connected, thus increasing efficiency and output. Start planning on how to adapt to Industry 4.0 Be Updated.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 16, 2010

Designed for large businesses, the channels let a company share several types of documents, brand the channel with their own design elements, and then include display advertising, contest promotions, blog aggregation, social media integration and metrics reporting. What prompted the process change? What prompted the process change?

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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. Lighthouse – Issue Tracking Tool.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

With all these new tasks, there’s no way you can also manage the projects and client relationships and internal product development, so you’ll need a project manager or a sales person or an office manager or some kind of help, and all of those come out of your profits. None of these new tasks are fun or creative.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

And I think a bad choice, a bad library, a horrible API, lack of documentation etc. You forgot to mention how awesome the documentation on php.net is. I dont really care what way is used, and I hope the community would have standardized libraries (no matter the language) I really do not like to make choices. Interesting post.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

I offered an educated opinion about the travesty called "profit based pricing" that the former "community manager" actually fabricated documents as the basis to forum ban me and threatened to permanently ban me as a means to censor the information I sought to share. To be so would be, in my opinion, disloyal to IMVU.

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