After five years of product build-out and $40 million of capital, author Eric Ries shares his personal story of monumental startup failure. The important distinction that he draws is not that his company failed to execute. To the contrary, all went strictly to plan, hiring the best talent, relea...
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In addition to the usual factors that attract a venture capitalist to a startup - passionate entrepreneurs, unique ideas, and a desire to change the world - Draper, Fisher, Jurvetson’s Steve Jurvetson points out that many VC's are also seeking truly disruptive technologies. Startups exist and wi...
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Understand and question deeply the root causes - i.e. the "human problems" - behind every technical mishap, else your startup will be hindered in its progress. So advises entrepreneur and author Eric Ries, who suggests a layered analysis of decisions and procedures behind every technical underta...
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In the successful build-out of a lean startup, entrepreneur and author Eric Ries suggests adapting the rules of creating the minimum viable product. Rather than getting the product "right"; or employing the "release early, release often" philosophy of soliciting customer feedback for product dev...
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I am Tina Seelig and I play two roles here today. First, I am the host normally, but today I’m also the speaker. So I'm going to give you a little bit of my background so you know actually who am I besides of the person who usually introduces our other guests. I am the Executive Direct...
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The largest source of waste in the startup, says author and entrepreneur Eric Ries, is building a product that no one will find useful. This is not a technical error, but rather a tactical one. Find out early if your product has merit by developing two teams in-house: One that works on problems ...
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Author and entrepreneur Eric Ries stresses continuous deployment - that is, the updating of code and website changes as frequently as every twenty minutes - as a necessary asset to the functioning of a lean startup. He states that all online product development and engineering changes should be ...
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After a very hi-profile startup failure, author Eric Ries and other co-founders launched a second startup product in just six months - with technically hazardous results. Rather than investing the resources necessary to craft quality software, they decided to switch tactics and release a buggy v...
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A startup is not a "doll house" version of a larger enterprise. It’s a human institution trying to start something new under extreme conditions of uncertainty, says author Eric Ries. It's not that some founders have better ideas than others, and this is what dictates success. What differentiates...
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In addition to seeking staff diversity and team members with a vast list of personal contacts, Draper Fisher Jurvetson’s partner Steve Jurvetson discusses at length the background necessary to break into a VC firm from the ground up. While most positions fill from personal contacts, many come fr...
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Author and entrepreneur Eric Ries unpacks the difference between waterfall and agile product development theories, and outlines when each are best employed. Waterfall - the linear path of product build-out - is best used when the problem and its solutions are well-understood. However, its hazard...
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Steve Jurvetson, the partner and moniker behind VC firm DFJ, discusses in detail Ray Kurzweil’s take on Moore's Law, which retroactively looks at the evolution of technology and the economy in terms of the numbers of possible calculations possible for a thousand dollars for the past hundred year...
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