Comments on Lessons Learned: Happy blogiversary (my present: a brand new URL)

I didn't know about your blog until TechStars ...

2009-09-10T19:43:11.191-07:00

I didn't know about your blog until TechStars posted a note about your Boulder dinner/speech. I read a lot of it that day and went to the dinner too. Awesome stuff. Please keep on keeping on. Oh and move to Boulder. ;)

Awesome, looking forward to the book. I'd lo...

2009-09-10T07:32:58.017-07:00

Awesome, looking forward to the book.

I'd love to be able to hand people your insights pulled together in a coherent whole -- in fact, I'd probably re-read it all in order to synthesize it. Reading the posts over the last year has been great but to have it laid out all in one fell swoop (with, perhaps some new content tie it together and flesh it out) would be phenomenal.

We need more of this type of thinking out there.

>> ... I would spend more time on the conten...

2009-09-09T19:14:33.229-07:00

>> ... I would spend more time on the content
>> of the essays than on layout and fancy widgets

Content is all that matters. And this blog's content has been great. Thanks for all your great posts Eric.

Hey Eric. Cheers, mate. As I told you at your ...

2009-09-09T18:35:06.285-07:00

Hey Eric.

Cheers, mate. As I told you at your first Lean Startup workshop: You've tapped a nerve in such a sincere way. Congrats,

Since you're looking back here's PostRank's view of you last year base don reader engagement metrics:

http://www.postrank.com/feed/3ff63b14d39f4857aa9c942c7bf1a1c5

Hover over each of the scores to get the social metric counts.

As for top posts we have:

* 10.0 Don't launch
* 8.9 Embrace technical debt
* 8.5 Why Continuous Deployment?
* 8.2 The Steve Jobs method
* 8.1 Validated learning about customers
* 8.0 How to conduct a Five Whys root cause analysis
* 7.7 10 years of entrepreneurship
* 7.6 Throwing away working code
* 7.6 Built to learn
* 7.5 Minimum Viable Product: a guide

You can see and even install the Top Posts widget yourself if you like (simple install for blogger blogs):

http://www.postrank.com/publishers/

Not bad, dude.

Start-up Idea: After searching like you are for a...

2009-09-09T17:46:26.903-07:00

Start-up Idea: After searching like you are for a super simple to use blog template.... I found that none exist. I use posterous now, but still have have some friends that own businesses that would love a blog type set-up but they want it to be their own... not one from blogger posterous, wordpress etc. Their own domain that is not forwarded somewhere else. But try and find one.... impossible, w/o having to get an FTP server, change DNS and MX records etc. I can't believe that in the web 2.0 world one company hasn't come up with this...

Thanks for all the great posts Eric! I think a boo...

2009-09-09T11:52:55.797-07:00

Thanks for all the great posts Eric! I think a book of all your most read posts would be amazing (much like Guy Kawasaki). Again, thanks so much. Your site has been a great resource.

Dave