Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

Thanks to Suns amazing PR blitz, there was tremendous demand for experts on Java, and I did my best to convince people that I was one of that mythical breed. my startup is Blank Label (www.blank-label.com), which is a provider of custom dress shirts that empowers consumers to become the designer of their own product.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2008

This is a self-published book, originally designed as a companion to Steves class at Berkeleys Haas school of business. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. Heres the catch.

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MAY 9, 2012

There continues to be an incredible demand out there for actionable, practical lessons in how to apply this emerging set of ideas. Like Continuous Deployment, whereby IMVU deployed changes to their web application +50 times per day, BetaBrand's aim is to put out a new product every day. It was a fairly organic thing.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2008

They take things like unit testing, design documents and code reviews more seriously than any other company Ive even heard about. You dont need "war team meetings," and you dont need status reports I even believe in doing launches on a continuous basis (see continuous ship ). Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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JULY 2, 2009

Five Whys is designed to avoid these nebulous arguments. oh, and on the book front, you'll be able to get all of my essays so far in ebook, print-on-demand, and kindle editions - coming soon. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. In fact, even the investigation itself is considered too much work.

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DECEMBER 14, 2009

I had a lot of use for this concept back when I worked on game design and virtual worlds. In order to maintain game play balance, game designers have to take into account the needs of customers who have an excess of four different assets: time , money , skill , and passion. Having a balanced ecosystem is what game designers strive for.

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JANUARY 2, 2010

This is just like a startup to me, complete with distribution and product development challenges, ecosystem design and many, many customers. Do you have a suggestion for a guest speaker or case study that illustrates a particular lean startup concept: minimum viable product, continuous deployment, validated learning, the pivot?

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0,

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NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0,

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JUNE 8, 2009

Periodic or on-demand reports are one possibility, but we can do much better. It was pretty ugly, the marketing and design sucked, and I was embarrassed by it. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Pivot, don't jump to a new vision Why Continuous Deployment? We can learn to see.

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DECEMBER 7, 2008

As the company grows, hes the go-to person for almost everything technical, and so hes very much in demand. Even if, in a previous life, you were a world expert in some functional specialty, like in-depth market research or scalable systems design, the compressed timeline of a startup makes it irrelevant. But life is not easy, either.

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AUGUST 24, 2009

The other revels in the world as we all know it will be someday: limitless distribution enabled by new technologies, the importance of collaborative filters, and on-demand availability of all content for end-users. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and what.

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APRIL 26, 2009

Making UGC work requires good tools, open standards, and proper incentive design. It allowed me to assess the market demand for that offline product before I had the final product baked. On-demand utility pricing for services (aka "cloud computing"). Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

Product Development 88

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NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0,

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NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Wed train them on-demand as they came in, and send them into the world (or onto the phones) with written instructions and voter contact data. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2008

Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0,

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OCTOBER 4, 2010

Many journalists and conference organizers attempt to fill this demand by giving successful entrepreneurs the opportunity to tell their stories: in magazines, on blogs, and on stage. And the kinds of failures that do get airtime are usually failures to adequately plan, anticipate, or design in advance.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2013

A few of the detailed case studies include: Tech legend Bill Gross building an MVP in 1999 to test demand for online car sales, which grew into CarsDirect.com. 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.

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MARCH 11, 2010

High-profile startup Friendster had first-mover advantage in the social networking space, but created openings for competitors when it could not scale to meet demand. High-profile startup Friendster had first-mover advantage in the social networking space, but created openings for competitors when it could not scale to meet demand.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, February 10, 2009 Continuous deployment and continuous learning At long last, some of the actual implementers of the advanced systems we built at IMVU for rapid deployment and rapid response are starting to write about it. At IMVU it’s a core part of our culture to ship.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2008

Doing in-depth customer research, with long questionnaires with detailed demographic and psychograpic breakdowns, is very helpful for long-range planning, interaction design and, most importantly, creating customer archetypes. Designing the survey The NPS question itself (again, "How likely are you to recommend X to a friend or colleague?")

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NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0,

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NOVEMBER 11, 2008

Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0,

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NOVEMBER 19, 2008

Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0,

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

For eBay, this is caused by the incredible network effects of their business (so-called demand-side increasing returns and supply-side increasing returns). For Neopets, its simply a side-effect of their game-like product design. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. This has led to exponential growth.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

This is precisely the dilemma that the doctrine of minimum viable product is designed to solve. When people start using quality, reliability, or design as an excuse to delay, it used to make me nervous, even when these suggestions were well intentioned. Rules of thumb can be infuriatingly unhelpful. And it’s really hard.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2009

In the past, we invested in brilliant architecture, code reuse, refactoring, modular design, etc. If we’re practicing continuous deployment, we can be confident that we’ll be able to rush an emergency fix into production without risking introducing further problems.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2008

Its nearly impossible to get a good read on all six attributes in a single interview, so its important to design an interview process that will give you a good sampling of data to look at. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online. What is customer development?

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Customers kept demanding that we add this or that IM feature, and we were routinely refusing. We were afraid that this was just the tip of the iceberg, and that once we “gave in&# to these five demands there would be five more, ad infinitum. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

or their privileging of only certain designers featured in Showcase and promos. until I couldn't seem to find a way from getting away from all these nasty, vulgar teens (or people pretending to be teens) demanding explicit sex every time I went there. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. So I gave up.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

(a guide for hackers) (This post was inspired by a conversation with Nivi from Venture Hacks , but is otherwise not his fault) There has been a proliferation of frameworks and metaphors lately that are designed to help startups avoid the all-too-common fatal mistake of failing to find a market. Tough sell. Expo (and a call for he.

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