The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

I also want to explain that it is possible to have a truly agile work environment based on small, autonomous teams. The rest are providing central services like marketing, customer care and localization (20%) or others like HR, PR, Finance, Business Analytics and teams that maintain simple services for persistence of games.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 25, 2010

Read the rest of The Startups Rules of Speed - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review. Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable Beware of Vanity Metrics For Startups, How Much Process Is Too Much? Read the rest of The Startups Rules of Speed - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2010

You can read the rest of his posts on his blog : Introduction , Part 1 , Part 2.) You can read the rest of his posts on his blog : Introduction , Part 1 , Part 2.) All I can tell the folks who attended the simulcasts is that I’m not missing either the time or the money. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

But, as any startup can tell you, this opens up a tremendous set of opportunities for the rest of us. Despite all the energy invested in talking to authors about the size of their platform, very few gatekeepers have a rigorous set of metrics for measuring it. The old models are broken, and we do not yet have new models to replace them.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

This technique rests on three things: identifying the kinds of work that need to get done, creating the right type of teams for each kind, and steering the company by allocating resources among them. Growth - when you have existing customers, the pressure is on to grow your key metrics day-in day-out. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 5, 2010

You can easily take from it whatever makes sense for your business, and leave the rest. You can easily take from it whatever makes sense for your business, and leave the rest. It does a great job of laying out general principles and suggesting specific, highly actionable tactics. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 7, 2010

Read the rest at The Conversation - Harvard Business Review. Read the rest at The Conversation - Harvard Business Review. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. Expo SF (May.

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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. In fact, excess time pressure is exactly why they think they have these problems in the first place. So new conflicts appear.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 15, 2010

Behind this analysis is a spreadsheet model, complete with detailed metrics for a set of customer behaviors that show just how valuable the new product will be. They are on-schedule and on-budget, but their gross metrics are way off. Read the rest here. They are on-schedule and on-budget, but their gross metrics are way off.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 22, 2010

Luckily for the rest of us, he was able to find his path to a green card, and now employs 24 Americans in West Lafayette, Indiana. Read the rest of The New Startup Arms Race at Huffington Post. Luckily for the rest of us, he was able to find his path to a green card, and now employs 24 Americans in West Lafayette, Indiana.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 6, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 6, 2008 When NOT to listen to your users; when NOT to rely on split-tests There are three legs to the lean startup concept: agile product development , low-cost (fast to market) platforms , and rapid-iteration customer development. The opportunity was just mind-bogglingly huge. How did they do it?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 7, 2009

The rest of the post, which you can read here , discusses the application of these principles to other contexts. 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?

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San Francisco Continuous Deployment Software Review Lean 131

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 30, 2009

In 2002 I became exposed to the idea of “agile software development&# and subsequently was a first round investor in Rally Software which is now the market leader in Agile application lifecycle management software. Read the rest. Weve got slides , video , audio and twitter commentary. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

We spent the rest of our time pretending to work on the assigned homework, but really trying to do interesting side projects, like sending juvenile messages across the school network or building primitive video games. . Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets. Learning is better than optimization (the local ma.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 18, 2010

My transition to Continuous Deployment Prior to adopting continuous deployment, I used to release software on a weekly schedule (come rain or shine) which I viewed as pretty agile, disciplined, and aggressive. Build in response to a signal from the "customer", and otherwise rest or improve. Expo SF (May.

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ConversionXL

JULY 3, 2020

You also need metrics on cart abandonment and purchase rates of those who saw your test idea and those who didn’t. Now that you understand your starting point, you’ll need to prioritize the rest of the requirements. Someone will need to track additional metrics. What data do you need to report on key results? Dependencies.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 2, 2010

As you face new challenges, successes and failures - please share what you learn with the rest of us. As you face new challenges, successes and failures - please share what you learn with the rest of us. Most of all, the best thing you can do to help this movement grow is to be an entrepreneur yourself. Lets hear it: good, bad, crazy?

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

The first, according to Dr. David Travis at UserFocus , was agile development : Dr. David Travis: “‘Development’ teams morphed into ‘design’ teams. To use the agile terminology, design teams wanted to get a ‘shared understanding’ of their users and they were suspicious of any attempt to set requirements in concrete.”.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 2, 2009

For the rest of us, there is an alternative: to create credibility by building a lean startup. The core of the article is my first attempt to articulate the key metrics (in graph form) that I believe demonstrate customer value. At IMVU, we were terrified by how early we shipped (and charged for) our first product. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 16, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, February 16, 2009 Continuous deployment with downloads One of my goals in writing posts about topics like continuous deployment is the hope that people will take those ideas and apply them to new situations - and then share what they learn with the rest of us. Expo SF (May. Expo (and a call for he.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Heres my favorite part: If youve got a team, part of the team should obsess about the backlist, honing it, editing it and promoting it, while the rest work to generate (as opposed to promote) the frontlist. His post is ostensibly about how often to release new work (whether youre a blog writer, movie star, software team.) Expo SF (May.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 7, 2017

The first, according to Dr. David Travis at UserFocus , was agile development : Dr. David Travis: “‘Development’ teams morphed into ‘design’ teams. To use the agile terminology, design teams wanted to get a ‘shared understanding’ of their users and they were suspicious of any attempt to set requirements in concrete.”.

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Software Review Design Agile Analytics 102

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, February 8, 2010 Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Review) The next article in my series on entrepreneurship for Harvard Business Review is live today. Once again, we revisit the topic of Actionable metrics and their nemesis: Vanity metrics. Remember "metrics are people, too."

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2010

There are few courses which teach aspiring entrepreneurs the skills (business models, customer and agile development, design thinking, etc.) We’ll build the class around the business model / customer development / agile development solution stack. Dave McClure, “Startup Metrics for Pirates”, [link]. to optimize this search.

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View from Seed

MAY 14, 2019

This may seem great at first, but may lead you to start building the rest of the business on a pretty weak foundation. These challenges put founders in a precarious position because they all contribute to a serious loss of agility.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 30, 2008

When doing the post-interview team meeting, it was common for the first opinion expressed about a candidate to become the prevailing opinion of the rest of the team members. The engineering team varied from 5-8 people, with a variety of skill-sets and personalities. The two rounds of questioning is a good idea for avoiding that. Expo SF (May.

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usersknow.blogspot.com

APRIL 30, 2010

Is this feature usable, and is the UX reasonably consistent with the rest of my product? You need to have some sort of plan for testing to see how it’s affecting key metrics , whether those are revenue, retention, registration, user happiness, or some other number you care about. What is the expected ROI for this feature?

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 15, 2019

Bubble Kings most commonly reside in organizations where there is little to no accountability (or misplaced accountability, ex: celebration of vanity metrics). Bubble Kings are comfortable making decisions that sound good – decisions just as likely to be informed by their long experience as the quest for shiny objects.

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OnlyOnce

AUGUST 31, 2017

Over the years, I’ve written a lot about the Agile methodology on this blog. For those of you who are regular readers, you may remember a post I wrote about our Agile Everywhere initiative — where all Return Path teams were tasked with implementing agile practices. The rest of the organization (a few hundred people!)

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 23, 2009

Read the rest of the interview at Venture Hacks. 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? Combining agile development with customer developm.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 11, 2015

And worse, even if someone does manage to start something new, our management structure has so many financial, legal and HR hurdles that every initiative needs to match our existing business financial metrics, processes and procedures. More agile competitors are starting to eat into our business. What Drives Innovation?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 11, 2010

Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable Beware of Vanity Metrics Im a little late on the cross-post, but hope youll enjoy it nonetheless. Read the rest: For Startups, How Much Process Is Too Much? - Read the rest: For Startups, How Much Process Is Too Much? - For Startups, How Much Process Is Too Much? - Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2010

This is the same issue we see with vanity metrics : companies are giving the appearance of sharing information while actually engaging in spin or outright deception. Similarly, journalists print vanity metrics because that’s all companies will release. And yet you who are reading this right now have tremendous power.

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OnlyOnce

AUGUST 12, 2013

A few years ago, people started talking a lot more about User Experience (UX) as a new crossover discipline between design and engineering, and our experience at Return Path has been that UX is an incredibly powerful tool in our arsenal to build great technical products via lean/agile methods. It has a beginning but it doesn’t have an end.”

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 22, 2008

Our response time to the crisis was much too slow, and as part of the post-mortem analysis of why , I took a look at the various metrics that all took a precipitous turn for the worse during that summer. 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 19, 2009

2gov.org will take care of the rest. 2gov.org will take care of the rest. 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? The Geeks are doing their part.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 12, 2010

Read the rest here. Read the rest here. 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? If youre thinking of attending the Web 2.0 Expo SF (May.

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