Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Guest Post by Misti Yang, Writer for Lean Startup Co. Editor’s Note: We wrapped up the 2017 Lean Startup Week in San Francisco just a few weeks ago, and we’re excited to share with you some of the best lessons learned in entrepreneurship and corporate innovation. Because these Lean Startup people, they do crazy stuff,” Alex joked. “So

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 16, 2009

Jim Murphy is a long-time agile practitioner in startups. But startups sometimes have trouble applying agile successfully. Embedded in that assumption is why startups fail. XP and Scrum don’t have much to say - they punt. Hes often felt that there was something missing. Enter Jims post.

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See Also: From Problem Solving to Organic Pickles: 7 Startup Lessons from an Inspiring Entrepreneur. Scrum: a flexible way to manage product development. Finally, let’s take a look at the increasingly popular problem-solving method—especially in the technology sector—known as scrum. Kanban: a method used to control production.

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The Next Web

MARCH 24, 2013

But between visioning sessions, collaborative software development and Linus’ Law of bug detection — we’ve been taught to accept the wisdom of crowds as necessary to most startup decision-making. Investor and 500 Startups founder Dave McClure offered TNW a few of his thoughts. To an extent, all of this is true.

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MAY 19, 2011

Jeff has been promoting the use of Lean UX as an effective method to spur greater innovation, quality and productivity in startups as well as within teams in larger organizations. Lean Startups need to make snap decisions, iterate quickly and pivot when needed. Levels of Agile adoption span the full spectrum across our 6 Scrum teams.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

I have been thinking a lot about what a new version of this test would look like, given what Ive seen work and not work in startups. but I have not seen that dysfunction in any of the startups I advise, so hopefully its behind us. There are several ways to make progress evident - the Scrum team model is my current favorite.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2008

But I have a special sympathy for the "product manager" in a startup that is bringing a new product to a new market, and doing their work in large batches. Eventually, I hope to get them on a full agile diet, with TDD, scrums, sprints, pair programming, and more. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

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The Next Web

MARCH 6, 2014

Systems such as Scrum can help separate departments communicate effectively, and that is an absolute necessity. Entrepreneur Insider Analysis and Opinion Entrepreneurship startup YEC yec.co . - Maren Hogan , Red Branch Media. Adjust the Workflow. Daniel Wesley, Creditloan.com. Maintain a Mutual Understanding.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 4, 2013

My startup team has just gone distributed, after eight months of being remote. Solution #1: At least once a week have a scrum meeting that absolutely everyone prioritizes. After the scrum, if time allows, hang out and catch up. It took a back seat until we realized “WTF, we are actually going to make this a startup!”

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

This means the holding of daily scrum meetings and the ability of all involved employees to talk about barriers and discuss status, as well as input from the product owner. appeared first on The Startup Magazine. Are your teams co-located? — Does your team have a willingness to learn from past failures?

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Gust

AUGUST 22, 2012

Giza was just a one-day side trip on my main mission: Visiting a tech startup tucked away in Alexandria, a bustling seaside metropolis of 5 million. Building a startup is one of the riskiest endeavors to begin with, so predictability is key, even in the face of known adversity. What the heck was I doing in Egypt anyway?

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Transformify

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

20 % of the project managers are familiar with Scrum, but there are very few product managers – less than 1% of all. What would a startup team look like based on this data only? Scrum, Agile, Product Management. Lagos, a Nigerian port city, is the home of more than 60 startups focused on solving social problems.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 6, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, December 6, 2008 The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: part three Those startups that manage to build a product people want have to deal with the consequences of that success. And still being a startup means continuing to innovate as well as keep the lights on.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 30, 2018

The Sprint meeting must be facilitated by the Scrum Master and clarifications about the product backlog items must be provided by a Product Owner. The Product Owner and Scrum Master must work together with the Agile Team towards achieving the sprint commitment. The length of the sprint will be defined by the agreement made by the team.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 9, 2009

MarkH : Key takeaways from Erics great talk #w2e #leanstartup 1) "building a culture to learn " @ericries Marks point is the one that seems to have had the biggest impact from the talk as a whole: that startups should be built to learn. The lean startup focuses on situations where we have both an unknown problem and an unknown solution.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

Startups especially can benefit by using technical debt to experiment, invest in process, and increase their product development leverage. In a startup, we should take full advantage of our options, even if they feel dirty or riddled with technical debt. Startups are always moving, so invest in moving faster and better.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

For nearly every organization that has grown beyond a very early stage startup, one of the most common, yet difficult, questions is the optimal way to split up the product work. As soon as you have more than one product manager, or more than one interaction designer, teams face this question.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 29, 2019

The scrum and agile practices help in achieving the organization’s objectives. A scrum master plays a unique role in an organization. He/she facilitates agility and lets the team organize itself and adapt quickly by following the agile and scrum principles. A few Scrum Master characteristics are: For the Product owner.

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Mucker Lab

AUGUST 27, 2014

My father eventually decided on Santa Clara (Saratoga, more specifically), and so I grew up in the shadows of the orchards of Cupertino and the nondescript concrete startup boxes of Santa Clara. Encyclopedic knowledge of term sheets and startup buzzwords can be quickly learned, trained, and packaged.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 24, 2021

It is executed through practices of Kanban , Scrum, XP. Agile mindset is a system of beliefs characterized by a customer-centric approach, emphasizing communication and consistent collaboration with the customer and inside the team. What is Agile Thinking?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 22, 2008 You dont need as many tools as you think Im always excited to see someone else writing about lessons learned from their startup, and wanted to link today to Untitled - Startup Lessons Learned -- Take it with a grain of salt. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 28, 2015

Or if you want to go back to 2004 and 2005 when I was really learning about Agile, well before it had become a household name, you could read my posts Agile Software Development with SCRUM or Do You Develop Software For A Living? – Over the fast dozen years, Rally has gone from a raw startup to a 500 person public company.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

In the very early days of any startup, the matters of company strategy , structure, culture and leadership are rarely formally addressed. The goal of this article is to look at this decision from a number of viewpoints and to try and guide startup founders towards a decision that will make the most sense for them. Hence, this article.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 5, 2014

For seed-stage startups, when resources are tight, trying to consciously build startup culture can feel wasteful. Below, Ben makes the case for why defining values is actually a worthwhile exercise, and he outlines his startup’s approach. Since we’re a startup, we definitely see more flow than ebb.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

JUNE 20, 2021

Planning Poker is a technique recommended as part of the broader SCRUM software development framework. If you are not using SCRUM, I highly recommend using it as your baseline. In doubt, implement SCRUM as closely as soon you can for a good baseline. Development. Internal product demos.

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adam.heroku.com

MAY 18, 2012

Some startups, on reaching this stage, declare “we’ve got to grow up and act like a real company now” and immediately try to switch to heavy-handed tactics. For example: full-fledged SCRUM, heavyweight tools like Jira, or hiring a project manager or engineering manager. Pick your battles carefully and stay focused.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 2, 2013

Boys and girls ages 11 -14 pitched ideas on Monday and then worked through the week to pitch their Minimum Viable Products to VCs on Friday — StartUp Weekend style. Scrum boards went up detailing everything they needed to accomplish by Friday afternoon. Scrum boards are a huge success for kid teams.

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Seeing Both Sides

DECEMBER 12, 2012

The company is part of a new wave of companies, such as Skillshare, Boston StartUp School and others, to provide "over the top" professional education to help chip away at the skills gap and enhance professional development. I had never tried a spontaneous scrum like this before and it was great fun. Intelligent.ly

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

APRIL 12, 2016

His nickname is Tank and I wouldn’t have minded having him as a teammate in my rugby playing days either, holding me up in the scrum! He’s the cofounder and former CTO of LivingSocial, and over the past few years has angel invested in companies such as Shyp, LendingHome, Walker & Co, and also sits on the board of a YC alumni ThinAir.

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SVPG

FEBRUARY 3, 2013

from Scrum to Kanban), or a "pivot" of a dedicated product team to work on something else (I guess this is supposed to make the team feel better about the new assignment, because pivots are something cool teams do). I've heard teams refer to a "pivot" of their technology stack (e.g.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

Its even more critical in lean startups when they need to manage growth. At IMVU , we called this person a Producer (revealing our games background); in Scrum , they are called the Product Owner. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Expo SF (May. . Expo SF (May.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 2, 2013

Boys and girls ages 11 -14 pitched ideas on Monday and then worked through the week to pitch their Minimum Viable Products to VCs on Friday — StartUp Weekend style. Scrum boards went up detailing everything they needed to accomplish by Friday afternoon. Scrum boards are a huge success for kid teams.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

It’s Episode 3 my little “ Loveline for startups. ” Introduced a few months ago as an Austin event, I’m now doing this live audio advice column to the web, taking phone calls from startups around the country. My co-hosts were Bob Walsh and Patrick Foley , hosts of the well-known Startup Success Podcast.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

How would one set up such a startup to eventually raise capital from outside VCs, who will be wary of ‘dead equity’ (i.e., The most important thing to consider is that launching a startup is usually a personal endeavor. First, the founders are their startup and define the company it will become. What are the timelines?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

So now I'm home-based in Austin, Texas and I'm spending a lot of time with a lot of startups and a lot of CEOs that are trying to scale their companies. They were 90 minute, I'll call it, sprints and the team started scrumming really as soon as we got back on Saturday night. They aren't USAA members, but"- Eric Ries : Oh, that's great.

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ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

JULY 11, 2012

I cover several topics including agile software development, software startups, web 2.0, Startups and Enterprises. startup cto. (18). 10 Things Enterprise CIOs can learn from Startups. No Scrum Master? Social, Agile, and Transformation. social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 Older Post.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Agile Scrum daily meetings have become a commonplace solution for development teams to hit and exceed targets. One Teams app in particular can be a godsend to teams forced into adopting remote work as standard and still maintain a working scrum methodology. ScrumGenius.

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