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

Startup Lessons Learned

Plus, as product development teams in lean startups become adept at learning-and-discovery (as opposed to just executing to spec), its clear that some bugs shouldnt be fixed. There are several ways to make progress evident - the Scrum team model is my current favorite. Joels Painless Bug Tracking is still the gold standard.

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

Although it costs to pay down the principal, we gain by reduced interest payments in the future. 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. The human tendency to moralize about debt affects engineers, too.

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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. The lean startup focuses on situations where we have both an unknown problem and an unknown solution. The Lean Startup at Web 2.0

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Should You Co-Found Your Company With a Software Development Shop (2 of 2)?

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Following month 4, agree on a 50% reduced rate ($12,500) to cover hosting, maintenance, and new feature development for 3 months. After releasing the MVP, we work on a lean scrum to iterate based on early data/feedback until we start to see signs of product-market fit. Small release at month 3 to collect user feedback.

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Startup Tools

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interactions, widgets, effects Django – high-level Python framework Cappuccino – open source framework for app development Kodingen – cloud development environment, code editor, hosting service, collaboration platform.

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Startup Resources

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VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. Lean Methodology Sources. Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Part 3- Lean Cust. Launchpad (Free hosting and OpenSource). Fnord (resources hosting).