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3:50 pm dropbox case study
How we build things?
We start with great people.
Hiring fewer but better people reduces need for coordination. Less things to share among less people.
Using etherpad to plan design with trac
Taken point, you don’t need an incredible infrastructure to coordinate. Simpler is better.
small loosely-couple teams formed from a 25-person engineering team.
each team is locally...
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3:00pm Keynote: Steve Blank
Most of the following is online @ http://www.slideshare.net/sblank/when-the-boardroom-is-bits-052111
#1 MBA is based on 300+ years of biz
#2 Tech Entrepreneurship + Venture capital ~ 50 years old
Startup are smaller versions of large companies
oops, not true
#3 Large companies execute biz models, startup search for biz model
#4 a Startup is a temporary organization designed to...
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2pm Design + Lean Startup = Lean UX
We believe that people like <customer type> have a need for (or problems doing) <action/need/behavior>. We will know we have succeeded when <quantitative outcome>, or <qualitative outcome>, which will contribute to <KPI/success for our company>
todo
go to a lean UX meetup
recruit UX and cut them some slack
learn to do it yourself
train together and...
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11:50am IGN entertainment case study “BigCo lessons learned”
5 whys
make sure that you do something about it.
Takes practice to do them well
Somebody needs to be in charge/responsible of the process.
Watch live video from Startup Lessons Learned on...
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11:30am food on the table one year later
Concierge MVP
Literally have a meeting with your first customers and hold their hand through the process.
Go through the whole process & validate the process / product
If the CEO is there and with the reality distortion field. If she can’t get excited/convinced about the product, it’s not going to happened on a cold website.
Key
keep in mind of the grandiose idea...