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Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 7, 2008
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. Its a nice complement on the product engineering side to his customer development methodology.
Steve Blank
AUGUST 3, 2012
Long before there was the Lean Startup, Business Model Canvas or Customer Development there was a guy in Santa Barbara California who had already figured it out. Frank Robinson of SyncDev has been helping companies figure out their minimum viable product and pivots since 1984, long before I even knew what it meant.
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Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 16, 2013
But we couldn''t have identified this without having clear metrics (that high bug count) to assess our development process. Here''s the simplest form of that cycle: Week -1 - Planning/End-of-Cycle - Software engineers are planning: writing specifications, doing light prototyping, and experimentation.
Steve Blank
FEBRUARY 23, 2009
I’m a software engineer by trade, so I’m always interested in some better way to do things, whether they are in software or in business processes or organizations. We’ve managed startups like this forever; there is no other way to manage them.” Do you have thoughts on specifically how to restructure startups?
Startup Lessons Learned
NOVEMBER 6, 2008
Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile : "Google is an exceptionally disciplined company, from a software-engineering perspective. They work hard to keep their house in order at all times, and there are strict rules and guidelines in place that prevent engineers and teams from doing things their own way.
Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 4, 2008
Although Catalyst folded with the dot-com crash, Ries continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com, leading efforts in agile software development and user-generated content. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?
Startup Lessons Learned
AUGUST 8, 2009
I thought a good place to start was with the origins of the idea that "software design" should be considered a discipline in its own right, on par with computer science, software engineering, and computer programming. The economics of these process trade-offs are discussed in the Principles of Product Development Flow.)
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