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Lean Startup at Scale

Startup Lessons Learned

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. As Lean Startup methods have been used now for a number of years, we’ve become increasingly interested in how companies use them to sustain growth. Continuous deployment: A key component of speed is to keep pushing out work.

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Case Study: Rapid iteration with hardware

Startup Lessons Learned

(I am often asked to explain how to apply Lean Startup approaches to domains beyond software. The key to understanding Lean Startup is to recognize two things: Lean Startup techniques confer maximum benefit in the upper-right quadrant, namely high market uncertainty coupled with fast cycle time.

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Lean startup tools for Rails apps

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Mike Subelskys Blog Wednesday, November 11, 2009 Lean startup tools for Rails apps A few months ago I was invited to dinner with the Geeks on a Plane crew when they stopped in Washington, and had the opportunity to meet one of my heroes, Eric Ries , author of the Startup Lessons Learned blog. Email This BlogThis!

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Do lean startup principles have a place in the enterprise?

The Next Web

There is a lot of talk about the lean startup and whether it works or not. But the lean startup model, when you boil it down, simply says that when you launch any new business or product you do so based on validated learning, experimentation and frequent releases which allow you to measure and gain valuable customer feedback.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 8, 2008 The lean startup Ive been thinking for some time about a term that could encapsulate trends that are changing the startup landscape. After some trial and error, Ive settled on the Lean Startup. I like the term because of two connotations: Lean in the sense of low-burn.

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

I hope to show why lean and agile techniques actually reduce the negative impacts of technical debt and increase our ability to take advantage of its positive effects. Leverage product development with open source and third parties. For example, early on at IMVU, we incorporated in tons of open source projects.

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Lessons Learned: Five Whys

Startup Lessons Learned

When Eric writes, "By the time we started doing continuous integration, we had tens of thousands of lines of code, all not under test coverage." Most of this code was from a variety of open source PHP projects that were glued together with the shortest path to goal possible. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.