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This is an excerpt from my talk "Startup DNA" (http://www.slideshare.net/brikis98/startup-dna) that just focuses on the "Speed Wins" concept. For more info, check out my book "Hello, Startup: A Programmer's Guide to Building Products, Technologies, and Teams" at http://www.hello-startup.net.
This is an excerpt from my talk "Startup DNA" (http://www.slideshare.net/brikis98/startup-dna) that just focuses on the "Speed Wins" concept. For more info, check out my book "Hello, Startup: A Programmer's Guide to Building Products, Technologies, and Teams" at http://www.hello-startup.net.
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Yevgeniy Brikman
ybrikman.com | @brikis98 | brikis98.blogspot.com
Worked at a couple successful startups:
LinkedIn, TripAdvisor
Built a lot of stuff:
Enterprise products, hiring tools, scalable infrastructure,
company culture, engineering branding, travel apps, VoIP
software, innovation programs.
About me
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Wrote a book about what I learned
www.hello-startup.net
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These are my personal observations on a
few traits that make startups successful.
5.
Outline
1. Make excellent mistakes
2. Boyd's law
3. Speed Wins
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Outline
1. Make excellent mistakes
2. Boyd's law
3. Speed Wins
14.
● Started as a way to share images in Game
Neverending, a massively multiplayer online
game.
● Rewritten to focus on photo sharing
● Acquired by Yahoo for $35m in 2005
15.
● Started out as burbn, an HTML5 mobile app
for location-based social networking with
photo sharing as one of many features
● Completely rewritten as a photo sharing
focused native app
● Sold to facebook for $1bn in 2012
16.
Twitter
● Started out as odeo, a site to create and
share podcasts
● Struggling to stay alive, they held a
hackathon. Jack Dorsey proposed the
microblogging concept (originally, text
message only).
● 500m users and $10b valuation in 2012
17.
"Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying
will eventually make you look like an overnight
success."
Biz Stone
19.
Richard Branson
● Virgin Clothes failed
● Virgin Cola failed
● Virgin Vision failed
● Virgin Vodka failed
● Virgin Wine failed
● Virgin Jeans failed
● Virgin Cars failed
● ... and many others failed
● ... but several hundred others succeeded
20.
"I have not failed. I have just found 10,000 ways
that won’t work."
Thomas Edison
21.
Reid Hoffman
● His first startup was Socialnet.com: a social
network for dating.
● Never heard of it? Exactly.
● Went on to become COO of Paypal, co-
founder of LinkedIn, and one of the most
successful angel investors of the last
decade.
22.
"If you're not failing every now and again, it's a
sign you're not doing anything very innovative."
Woody Allen
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Note: these are not failures, but experiments.
The goal of an experiment is learning.
24.
Outline
1. Make excellent mistakes
2. Boyd's law
3. Speed Wins
25.
"Speed of iteration beats quality of iteration."
Boyd’s Law
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Time
Maturity
Mature, stable
Proof of concept
Idea
Product development (assumption)
27.
Time
Maturity
Mature, stable
Proof of concept
Product development (reality)
Idea
28.
Time
Maturity
Mature, stable
Proof of concept
Product development (reality)
Idea
A very large portion of development
time is trial and error
29.
In a trial and error world, getting to errors
faster is the key to success.
30.
Time
Maturity
Mature, stable
Proof of concept
Product development (technology comparison)
Dynamic/interpreted
languages
Static languages
Idea
31.
Time
Maturity
Mature, stable
Proof of concept
Product development (technology comparison)
Idea
Dynamic/interpreted
languages
Static languages
Find error Find error
32.
Time
Maturity
Mature, stable
Proof of concept
Product development (technology comparison)
Idea
Boyd’s Law
33.
Time
Maturity
Mature, stable
Proof of concept
Product development (technology comparison)
Idea
Dynamic/interpreted
languages
Static languages
Innovation
Advantage
34.
Time
Maturity
Mature, stable
Proof of concept
Product development (framework comparison)
Idea
RoR, Play Spring MVC, Servlets
Innovation
Advantage
35.
Time
Maturity
Mature, stable
Proof of concept
Product development (methodology comparison)
Idea
Agile, Lean Waterfall
Innovation
Advantage
36.
"If you're not embarrassed by your first release,
you've launched too late."
Reid Hoffman
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Outline
1. Make excellent mistakes
2. Boyd's law
3. Speed Wins