I watched most of the Startup Lessons Learned Conference from home. Thanks to the magic of justin.tv, I also brushed my teeth, had breakfast, cleaned the bathrooms, and did a couple phone calls at the same time. Here are my two favorite talks from the conference. Steve Blank: Customer Development 2.0 “Why Accountants Don’t Run [...]
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Startup Lessons Learned: I wish this conference was around five years ago
April 20th, 2010 · Comments Off · Conferences, Lean
“Startup Lessons Learned Conference #sllconf is going to be the Woodstock for entrepreneurs. If you weren’t there you will say you were.” – Steve Blank Startup Lessons Learned, the best startup conference of the year, is this Friday: I think this is going to be the most actionable startup conference ever and the lead organizer, [...]
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My experiments in lean pricing
February 16th, 2010 · 29 Comments · Customer Development, Lean
This guest post is by Ash Maurya, a lean entrepreneur who runs a bootstrapped startup called CloudFire. If you like it, check out Ash’s blog and his tweets @ashmaurya. – Nivi What you charge for your product is simultaneously one of the most complicated and most important things to get right. Not only does your [...]
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No ocean boiling please
January 8th, 2010 · 5 Comments · Lean
Tim Bray, co-editor of the XML specification: “The Web These Days · It’s like this: The time between having an idea and its public launch is measured in days not months, weeks not years. Same for each subsequent release cycle. Teams are small. Progress is iterative. No oceans are boiled, no monster requirements documents written. [...]
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10 examples of minimum viable products
October 27th, 2009 · 15 Comments · Lean
“Entrepreneurship in a lean startup is really a series of MVP’s” – Eric Ries “We kept to minimum feature spec. I think that is always very important. It is hard to determine what to do until you launch.” – Immad Akhund Do minimum viable products seem abstract? Here’s 10 examples: “If Apple can launch a [...]
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How IMVU learned its way to $10M a year
February 24th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Case Studies, Customer Development, Lean, Presentations
“Lean startups are built from the ground up for learning about customers.” – Eric Ries I recently sat in on Eric Ries’ presentation on lean startups at Berkeley. The slides and audio are below. The presentation is about one hour long and it is gold. Audio: The Lean Startup (mp3) Slides: The Lean Startup (pdf) [...]
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Lowering the water level: Do bad economies spur innovation?
January 12th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Downturn, Innovation, Lean
“[Recessions] can cause people to think more about the effective use of their assets. In the good times, you can get a bit careless or not focused as much on efficiency. In bad times, you’re forced to see if there is a technology [that will help].” – Craig Barrett, Chairman of Intel Water hides the [...]
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My visit to American Apparel
January 8th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Lean, Organization
Ed: This is a guest post by Kevin Meyer, the President of Factory Strategies Group, which operates Superfactory. He also writes an excellent blog called Evolving Excellence. In this post, Kevin describes how American Apparel unwittingly applies lean practices like short cycle times (concept-to-product in 8 days), integrated QA, cross-functional teams, and more. American Apparel [...]
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Books for Entrepreneurs: Extreme Programming Explained
December 1st, 2008 · 5 Comments · Books, Lean
“We do use agile methodologies at Heroku—I developed my own (informal) style of agile at the last company I founded, and brought that forward to this venture.” – Adam Wiggins, Founder, Heroku I first learned about lean startups in an excellent book called Agile Software Development—learn more about it in our review. The second step [...]
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The OODA Loop: Playing chess with half the pieces
November 20th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Books, Lean, Speed, Strategy
I just finished reading Certain to Win. It’s about the warfare strategy of John Boyd, as applied to business. In war, you build your team and dismantle the enemy. In business, you build your team, delight the customer, and incidentally dismantle the enemy. You might know John Boyd as the OODA Loop guy. I never [...]
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