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Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

Master of 500 Hats: Startup Metrics for Pirates (SeedCamp 2008, London) This presentation should be required reading for anyone creating a startup with an online service component. He also has a discussion of how your choice of business model determines which of these metric areas you want to focus on. Choose one.

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Pivot, don't jump to a new vision

Startup Lessons Learned

Leading up to a pivot, each cycle, despite our best efforts, the metrics werent good enough. Instead of these dead-ends, use the problem and solution team framework and then: pivot, dont jump. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Pivot, don't jump to a new vision Why Continuous Deployment?

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Lessons Learned: A new version of the Joel Test (draft)

Startup Lessons Learned

But if you want to practice rapid deployment, you need to be able to deploy that build in one step as well. If you want to do continuous deployment, youd better be able to certify that build too, which brings us to. For more on continuous deployment, see Just-in-time Scalability. Can you make a build in one step?

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Hands-on Lessons for Advanced Topics in Entrepreneurship

Startup Lessons Learned

Alistair Croll will lead a session on Lean analytics for intrapreneurs —from introducing never-before-seen case studies to tracking a product through its entire development and demonstrating which data and metrics are useful in what kinds of situations. Thus we reduce the risk of deployments. How do you address that?

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The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development

Startup Lessons Learned

While the customer development framework of Four Steps is universally relevant, The Entrepreneur’s Guide updates its practices for modern startups. While the customer development framework of Four Steps is universally relevant, The Entrepreneur’s Guide updates its practices for modern startups.

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Lessons Learned: What is customer development?

Startup Lessons Learned

I am continuously coaching people to get out and see what is really going on. But you still need a framework to be able to observe and process what you are seeing and hearing. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Tom Peters called the Management By Walking Around - MBWA.

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The curse of prevention

Startup Lessons Learned

In this framework, we’ll tend to either invest in the proposed prevention or do nothing. 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. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.