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Lessons Learned: Built to learn

Startup Lessons Learned

Thats the essence of so many of the lean startup techniques Ive evangelized: customer development , the Ideas/Code/Data feedback loop , and the adaptation of agile development to the startup experience. Creating a company-wide feedback loop that incorporates both customer development and agile development is a challenge.

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The Steve Jobs method

Startup Lessons Learned

Also SJ's obsession with better taste (positively) contributes to the overall product development process. There are some good anecdotes about Chief Engineers in the Toyota Product Development Book. Some of these reaffirm that they do indeed validate assumptions through interaction with customers.

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There's a Pattern Here « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Through trial and error, hiring and firing, successful startups all invented a parallel process to product development. In particular, the winners invent and live by a process of customer learning and discovery. It’s a process that doesn’t exist in large companies with existing customers and markets.

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Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets

Startup Lessons Learned

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Microsoft will be making scholarships available to companies in their BizSpark program; stay tuned for details. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

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10 years of entrepreneurship

Startup Lessons Learned

Be sure that you´ve already helped me and some friends a lot (down here in Brazil) to become better entrepreuneurs. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? As you said, though you didn´t catch any of those really big waves, you ended up learning a lot.

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Startup Lessons Learned

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R. ► May (3) Thank you Philosophy Helps Start-Ups Move Faster (WSJ on the.

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Startup Tools

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AgileZen – project management visually see and interact with your work Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.