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Lessons Learned: Intuit Labs Takeover

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Friday, June 26, 2015. This week, the Lean Startup took over. The blog on Intuit Labs. With original stories centered around experimentation as a method for investigating all parts of a business or product idea. The week’s posts included case studies, tips, Q&As, startup stories, and more. We started on Monday with. A conversation between me and Intuit’s own Ben Blank. In case you’re looking for a refresher or an explainer to send to friends or colleagues. Experimenting with product development. Thursday...

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Lessons Learned: What is customer development?

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Saturday, November 8, 2008. What is customer development? When we build products, we use a methodology. For software, we have many - you can enjoy a nice long list. What's wrong with this picture? Has devoted many years now to trying to answer that question, with a theory he calls Customer Development. This theory has become so influential that I have called it one of the three pillars of the lean startup. Every bit as important as the changes in technology or the advent of agile development. Calling it ...

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Lessons Learned: February 2015

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Monday, February 2, 2015. I'm launching a Kickstarter campaign. I have some news I'm excited to share: I'm launching a Kickstarter campaign in March. I can't wait to tell you more about it. But before I do, I'm conducting a very short survey. It's been a while, but long time readers know I always try to collect data before any kind of launch. If you're interested in participating. I'll have more details to share soon. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Get New Essays By Email. Often times, i...

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Lessons Learned: Pivot, don't jump to a new vision

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Monday, June 22, 2009. Pivot, don't jump to a new vision. In a lean startup. Instead of being organized around traditional functional departments, we use a cross-functional problem team and solution team. Each has its own iterative process: customer development. Respectively. And the two teams are joined together into a company-wide feedback loop that allows the whole company to be built to learn. From one vision to the next. We always seek to find a market for the product as currently specified. These a...

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Lessons Learned: November 2014

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Thursday, November 20, 2014. Your Guide to the Complete Lean Startup Conference Program. Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. Eleven months in the making,. The Lean Startup Conference. Is at last complete, and we can’t wait to show you around! OK, sure, we’re still nailing down a couple more speakers and sessions, which we’ll announce as we finalize them. But other than that,. It’s all there. There’s never been a better year to attend than this one. Convince your boss,. So as...

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Lessons Learned: Excerpt from the Introduction to The Leader's Guide

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Thursday, April 9, 2015. Excerpt from the Introduction to The Leader's Guide. This is the first of several early excerpts I'll be sharing from. The Leader's Guide,. A 4-color, 250-page, hardcover and digital book which will be offered exclusively through Kickstarter- according to my agreement with my publisher, Crown, the book can never be sold in stores. As usual, I'm leaving out important details like company names in order to respect their privacy while the book is still in early draft form. They susp...

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Lessons Learned: The Lean Startup Conference 2015

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Wednesday, April 22, 2015. The Lean Startup Conference 2015. A massive rain storm blew through San Francisco in the middle of last year’s Lean Startup Conference. We woke up to a city-wide power outage, and Day Two of the conference had stopped before it started. No lights, no wifi, and no A/V. Why You Should Join Us in 2015. Like previous years, the 2015 conference will feature 100 expert speakers on topics ranging from corporate entrepreneurship to analytics, product development, engineering, sales, ma...

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Lessons Learned: Last week to get The Leader's Guide

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Tuesday, April 7, 2015. Last week to get The Leader's Guide. You may have heard, I'm writing a new book. And I'm doing it in an unorthodox way, by offering an MVP via Kickstarter. It's called The Leader's Guide. And this week is your last chance to get it (no, really). I’ve tried to keep blog posts about the campaign to a minimum. If you want to follow the week-by-week progress, you can do so over at our Updates page. One thing I do want to address, for those who haven’t been paying close attention:.

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Lessons Learned: March 2015

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Wednesday, March 25, 2015. Kickstarter news - and a Reddit AMA. Thank you - thank you - thank you! You've helped make the first week of my Kickstarter campaign. A success—we've blown through our funding goal and are scrambling to add new backer rewards to replace the ones you've all sold out. (Read the detailed update here. I wanted to share some news and updates about stretch goals, bonus rewards, and you can Ask Me Anything. At 5:30 EST today (Wednesday, March 25th) on Reddit. The Wall Street Journal.

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Lessons Learned: Five Whys

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Thursday, November 13, 2008. Taiichi Ohno was one of the inventors of the Toyota Production System. His book Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production. Is a fascinating read, even though it's decidedly non-practical. After reading it, you might not even realize that there are cars involved in Toyota's business. Yet there is one specific technique that I learned most clearly from this book: asking why five times. Why was the website down? Why did the CPU usage spike? So-and-so made a mistake.