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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 19, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 19, 2009 Lean hiring tips In preparing for the strategy series panel this week, I have been doing some thinking about costs. Fundamentally, lean startups do more with less, because they systematically find and eliminate waste that slows down value creation. Another terrific post, Eric.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, August 8, 2009 Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and whats changed since then) My recent article on technical debt and its positive uses generated a fair bit of controversy. The argument itself got me thinking a lot about design and its role in building products.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, November 4, 2008 Principles of Lean Startups, presentation for Maples Investments Image via Wikipedia Steve Blank and I had the opportunity to create a presentation about lean startups for Maples Investments. My path to lean startups began with Kent Beck and extreme programming.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, July 6, 2009 Lean Startup fbFund slides and video As a follow-up to my previous post on my talk for fbFund at Facebook , there was enough interest in watching video of the talk that I have finally uploaded it using Apples MobileMe. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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ConversionXL

MAY 6, 2021

Ultimately the CMS you choose will impact how quickly you can ship and test products, sales pages and design your site and content. If you’re a lean startup just starting, there’s much less inertia to overcome. Some website building tools think about design and apps first, then the blogging interface comes in as an afterthought.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 30, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, July 30, 2009 Techstars brings The Lean Startup to Boulder Im very excited to announce a pair of events that will kick off a very busy fall speaking tour. The event will include a talk from Eric on The Lean Startup over dinner, followed by moderated table discussion and then final Q&A with Eric.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 3, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, July 3, 2009 Lean Startup fbFund wrap-up Last week I had a real blast meeting with the companies at the fbFund incubator at Palo Alto. The Lean Startup fbFund Edition View more documents from Eric Ries. As usual, Id like to post the slides and then offer some additional commentary.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 25, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, March 25, 2009 The Lean Startup at Agile Vancouver April 21st A surprising number of respondents in the latest Lessons Learned survey hail from one of the flourishing startup hubs in Canada. This workshop brings together leading thinkers from Lean Production and Lean software.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 27, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, May 27, 2009 Austin: the Lean Startup tour continues Next week I head to Austin, TX for my first visit ever. The Lean Startup is a practical approach for creating and managing a new breed of company that excels in low-cost experimentation, rapid iteration, and true customer insight.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 30, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, August 30, 2008 Refactoring for TDD and interaction design In TDD , we follow a rhythm of “test-code-refactor.&# The same process works in Interaction Design. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0,

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 25, 2010

for Harvard Business Review) Over at Harvard Business Review, Ive been building up a series designed to introduce the Lean Startup methodology to a business-focused audience. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. The new startup arms race (for Huffington Post) For Startups, How Much Process Is Too Much?

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 4, 2010

blog comments powered by Disqus Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe via email Blog Archive ▼ 2010 (48) ► October (3) Case Study: Rapid iteration with hardware The Lean Startup Bundle Stop lying on stage ► September (4) Good enough never is (or is it?) The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, May 14, 2009 The Lean Startup Workshop - now an OReilly Master Class My rate of posting has been much lower lately, and this is mostly due to preparations for the upcoming Lean Startup Workshop on May 29. I have a lot of good news to report on this front. You can click here to learn more.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, May 31, 2010 Thank you The past month has been an incredible roller coaster: #sllconf was a trending topic (briefly topping Justin Bieber before the wifi in the hotel gave out), the Web 2.0 There are so many more people to thank: Sarah Milstein and the Web 2.0

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, February 20, 2009 Work in small batches Software should be designed, written, and deployed in small batches. I owe it originally to lean manufacturing books like Lean Thinking and Toyota Production System. Similar results apply in product management, design, testing, and even operations.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, June 9, 2009 The Lean Startup Tokyo edition I had a blast speaking at Startonomics Tokyo , which was organized to foster ties between the startup cultures in Japan and Silicon Valley. Since I learned much of what I know about lean from studying Toyota, you can imagine how great a shock this was.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2008

These specs are handed to a designer, who builds layouts and mockups of all the salient points. Then the designs are handed to a team of programmers with various specialties. The programmers keep asking for more say in the designs and direction that they work on. First, he writes it nice and clear.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Rameet Chawla is the founder of Fueled , an award winning development and design company based in New York and London, and the Fueled Collective , a co-working space in downtown Manhattan. Utilizing these tools and platforms is all about being lean. Design & Dev Entrepreneur Analysis and Opinion How-To''s'

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 15, 2008 The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time Split-testing is a core lean startup discipline, and its one of those rare topics that comes up just as often in a technical context as in a business-oriented one when Im talking to startups.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

The "Roaring Twenties" was a boom period in new construction, new infrastructure, deferred spending, and new forms of art. "Années Folles" — Web Smith (@web) December 27, 2020. We’re even seeing cities build out programs designed to drive local support for retailers. Image source ).

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 2, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, June 2, 2010 The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business Review) I continue my series for Harvard Business Review with the Lean Startup technique called Five Whys. And yet the key to startup speed is to maintain a disciplined approach to testing and evaluating new products, features, and ideas.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2010

kaChing has been very active in the Lean Startup movement. With case studies like this, we aim to illustrate specific Lean Startup techniques through the stories of current practitioners. kaChing has been very active in the Lean Startup movement. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

Like a financial debt, the technical debt incurs interest payments, which come in the form of the extra effort that we have to do in future development because of the quick and dirty design choice. We can choose to continue paying the interest, or we can pay down the principal by refactoring the quick and dirty design into the better design.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

If youre trying to design an architecture to maximize agility, how can that work if some people are working in TDD and others not? Platform selection and technical design - if your business strategy is to create a low-burn, highly iterative lean startup, youd better be using foundational tools that make that easy rather than hard.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

For Neopets, its simply a side-effect of their game-like product design. Either way, you can use any marketing channel thats available to bring in new customers, including word of traditional advertising, SEO, SEM - wherever you can find prospects who are going to find your product addicting. Expo SF (May. for Harvard Business Revie.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

So if youre new, consider not paying any attention to the rest of this post, and just diving into the archives, if you havent already. Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) Eventually, I came to summarize these themes with the phrase " the lean startup."

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 5, 2010

While maintaining persistence and willpower is certainly good advice, Customer Development methodologies are designed to give you data and feedback you may not want to hear. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. It is incumbent upon you to listen. This is important, since every situation is different. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, November 12, 2009 New York: three straight days of Lean Startup (two of which are free) Greetings from Europe, where Im just wrapping up an incredible (and exhausting) speaking tour. For those who want to come see me at Web 2.0 Expo in New York, theres good news.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 2, 2008

0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Subscribe via email Blog Archive ► 2010 (48) ► October (3) Case Study: Rapid iteration with hardware The Lean Startup Bundle Stop lying on stage ► September (4) Good enough never is (or is it?) The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

To help find the right keywords, Ive written an article on my blog Web Startup Help that details How to Do Keyword Research for startups. We run a web development company and we start by creating a splash page very similar to what is describe here. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. What a great post.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

I did my best to capture video and audio; a YouTube playlist and Slideshare slidecast are below: Slides (with audio): 2009 08 19 The Lean Startup TechStars Edition View more presentations from Eric Ries. We also had the benefit of many lean practices that break out of the "time, quality, money - pick two" paradox.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

We talk about taking advantages of the incredible agility offered by modern web architecture for extremely rapid deployment, etc. One major theory that has influenced the way I think about processes comes from Lean Manufacturing , where they use these same techniques to build cars. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

They take things like unit testing, design documents and code reviews more seriously than any other company Ive even heard about. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. The new startup arms race (for Huffington Post) For Startups, How Much Process Is Too Much? Anyway, thanks Stevey for your thoughtful post.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 28, 2013

Masterful design, branding and marketing. Innocent: Passionate Copy and Heart-warming Visual Design. ~ Innocent: Passionate Copy and Heart-warming Visual Design. But when it comes to the web, they all seem to leave their creativity, passion, and brilliant minds at home. The web can sell product. So I abandon.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Like many forms of progress, most of the items on the new test dont replace items from Joels - they either supplement or extend the ideas on which the original is based. This is still an essential practice, especially on the web. I love Joels approach to usability, and I still recommend his free online book on UI design.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. ► April (11) Video update on the Startup Visa Act Lean Enterprise Institute webinar, April 28 Four myths about the Lean Startup Sneak preview, KISSmetrics (and more) Sneak preview, Grockit The Lean Startup Intensive at Web 2.0 Expo SF (May.

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