Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

The sooner you pass your work on to a later stage, the sooner you can find out how they will receive it. Take the example of a design team prepping mock-ups for their development team. Give the dev team your very first sketches and let them get started. Small batches mean faster feedback.

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View from Seed

MARCH 19, 2015

He’s dubbed the approach “ pretotyping ,” and it shares many of the same principles as both its similar-sounding (if later-stage) cousin, prototyping, as well as the more well-known lean startup movement. Why doesn’t everyone do this?” Another success. So I thought, “I am good!”

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OnlyOnce

MARCH 14, 2011

In Part Two, I’ll talk about some of the practices we’re using in our product management and development teams. We set some pretty tight deadlines on the later stages. • Customer involvement, early and often —The team involved customers in building our new product from the very beginning.

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