Video Ustad Hariri Injak Kepala Operator Sound - Kabar kurang menggembirakan hadir dari dunia dakwah kita. Salah seorang ustad muda yang seringkali tampil dilayar kaca televisi Indonesia "Ustad Hariri" kini sedang banyak jadi pembicaraan di forum-froum dan sosial media di Internet. Hal tersebut terjadi lantaran kini beredar "Video Ustad Hariri Injak Kepala Operator Sound" dupanggung pada saat melakukan dakwahnya. Ada yang mengunggah video insiden tersebut di situs berbagi video youtube, dan kini video tersebut sudah banyak di upload ulang oleh pengguna youtube lainnya.

Entah apapun alasan dan penyebabnya, admin olahwarta secara pribadi tetap menyayangkan tindakan yang dilakukan oleh Ustad Hariri dalam video tersebut. Sebagai sosok ustad yang juga publik figur, rasanya hal tersebut kurang bahkan tidak pantas dilakukannya, terlebih dilakukan didepan umum, dihadapan para jamaah yang mana ada juga anak-anak disana. Menurut berita dari merdeka.com, insiden Video Ustad Hariri Injak Kepala Operator Sound tersebut terjadi berawal dari masalah sound system.

"Kronologinya pas mau acara Ustaz Hariri minta sound system-nya dibagusin. Operatornya marah-marah, jadi ya ustaz nggak terima," kata manajer Ustaz Hariri, Odet saat dihubungi merdeka.com, Rabu (12/2).

"Dari situ sudah ketahuan siapa yang salah," kata Odet membela Ustaz Hariri. Odet mengaku kejadian tersebut terjadi beberapa waktu lalu di Kabupaten Bandung.

 Admin blog olahwarta sendiri kurang mengerti percakapan yang terjadi dalam Video Ustad Hariri Injak Kepala Operator Sound. Selain memang rekaman suara dalam percakapan tersebut memang tidak jelas, percakapan yang terjadi dalam video tersebut menggunakan bahasa sunda jika saya tidak salah dengar.

Bagi anda yang belum sempat menonton Video Ustad Hariri Injak Kepala Operator Sound tersebut, anda dapat membuka situs youtube.com dan lalu ketikkan saja kata kunci "Ustad Hariri" maka beberapa video tetang insiden tersebut akan segera tampil. Namun agar lebih mudah, berikut admin sertakan video tersebut.

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Today's case study answers a bunch of questions all at once about Lean Startup principles: can they be used inside a Fortune 500 company? can they be used to sell physical low-tech products? can they be used in a retail store? I have been confidently answering questions like these non-stop for the past few months. I do believe the answer is yes. But, as the saying goes, seeing is believing. And now you won't have to take my word for it.

Nordstrom is currently ranked #254 on the Fortune 500 (yes, I looked it up) with over $9 billion in revenues. Scrappy startup they are not. And yet they face the same competitive pressures that are causing every modern company to take a long, hard look at the process they use to innovate. Anyone who has read The Innovator's Dilemma knows just how hard it is for a company that has been successful to invest in potentially disruptive innovations.

I have been talking to JB Brown, the manager of the Nordstrom Innovation Lab about publishing a case study. At the same time, Nordstrom had sent a camera crew to document the Lab at work. When I saw the rough cut of the videos they were producing, I knew they would be a powerful teaching tool. It's one thing to talk about "rapid experimentation" and "validated learning" as abstract concepts. It's quite another to see them in action, in a real-world setting. Proving his understanding of minimum viable product, JB suggested that we start small, by posting a "case study MVP." That's how this post came to be.

Below, you'll find two videos: one about the lab, and one containing a case study of the team at work. Watch them both. If you have questions, JB has generously agreed to make himself available to answer them in a future post. Just leave your question as a comment to this post. If there's sufficient interest, we'll expand this MVP.


"A Lean Startup Inside a Fortune 500 Company"



"We Really Don't Know What the Features Are Yet..."


Here are some highlights that I found especially interesting:

• One-week iterations. One of the hardest things about corporate innovation is breaking through the slowness that is the default speed for most initiatives. The Nordstrom Innovation Lab solves this problem by working in one-week increments. In the second video above, you'll see them build an entire new product in one week end-to-end.
  
  
• Genchi gembutsu. This is one of my favorite concepts from the Toyota Production System. It translates roughly as "go and see for yourself" - it's the Toyota version of "get out of the building." By talking face-to-face with customers, salespeople, and managers in a physical store, the innovation team is able to identify an opportunity that they can execute against extremely quickly. But they go beyond simply "getting out of the building" - they actually set up shop physically in a retail store for the entire week. They build products, test new features, and get feedback all out in the open. You really have to see it to believe it.
  
  
• Simple, rapid, experiments. I hear all the time that developing for iOS, with its myriad approval delays and deployment obstacles means that you can't use rapid development techniques on that platform. Yet in the video you'll see this team overcome that bias with a little ingenuity. They simply brought two iPads with them. While the app is in development, the sales team is using one iPad, and the developers are working on another. At every break, the sales team swaps iPads with the developers - always using the latest version of the app. (The same technique works with paper prototypes, too.)
  

Have questions for JB and the rest of the Nordstrom Innovation Lab team? Post them as comments.

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Howdy!
It's been awhile, I'm now enjoying my life and studying in America. But I'm so busy with my coursework and homework that I can't write my posts often. I'll still try all I can to share my stories, they are too precious to keep only for me.
I would like to share a video made by my friend Dinesh on the first and second day of our orientation days.
Cheers from Washington ...





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Hear the CEO of Grockit give a sneak preview of what he'll be presenting at the Startup Lessons Learned conference on April 23:


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I've been trying hard to cut back on travel in 2010 so as to have more time for writing. I started to feel like my blog became too much of a travel diary last year - and I still have many videos and presentations from last fall that I haven't shared yet. If you'd like to see me speak this year, there are only a few opportunities scheduled.

Next week, I'll be in New Zealand for Webstock 2010. I'll be giving a day-long workshop as well as a keynote address.They've got a great programme; my workshop will be on Monday, February 15 and my keynote will be Friday, February 19. I'll also be stopping by Kiwi Foo. If you're at either event, please do come say hello.

In March, I'll be speaking at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Since we'll have a game-oriented crowd, I'll be talking more about my "virtual worlds" background than I normally do. I often get asked how lean startup ideas can work for the video game industry - which is, of course, where I originally started working on them. The talk itself will be Tuesday, March 9 at 11:15am.

In April, stay tuned for word on the Startup Lessons Learned Conference, which will also be held in San Francisco. Rather than make a premature announcement, I'll invite you to take the survey and help us make the event better.

In May, I'll be giving a keynote address at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. I'm especially excited about this, because last year's Expo was the very first time I'd given the lean startup presentation to a large audience. The enthusiastic reception that day was part of what gave me the confidence to leap into this job full-time. I'm quite grateful to everyone who attended, and to the organizers who made it possible.

This year, lean startups will be a big part of the Web 2.0 Expo. In addition to my keynote, Steve Blank will be speaking. There's also a one-day Lean Startup Intensive on the first day of the conference (May 3). This will be a kind of "lean startup all-stars" event featuring a number of speakers and panels. Watch this blog for details. You can register for the intensive here. Thanks to the support of TechWeb, we'll be organizing a scholarship program for this event (stay tuned). Last, there are five large-scale sponsorship spots open for the event. If you've ever wanted to be a sponsor of a big event like the Web 2.0 Expo, but don't want to have your logo lost in the sea of sponsors, perhaps this would be a good choice. To get more info about sponsorship, you can contact Susan Young.

And, if you can't make it to any events this year, you can still catch the video. For example, here's the video of my talk last month at Twiistup in Los Angeles (slides are posted here):

I try to post event-related updates to Twitter, but if you want to subscribe to my event-specific plans directly, I'm trying Plancast (a new startup founded by a friend). You can subscribe to my plans here. Last, for those who are following the Startup Visa movement, we're planning a trip to DC in early March. If you'd like to participate, you can subscribe for updates on our Plancast page.
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I've been trying very hard to avoid turning this blog into a travelogue. Normally, I try to make my post-event writeups more than just a transcript, by including reactions and comments. On this speaking tour, that's been simply impossible, so I've decided to let the following collection of videos, podcasts, and slides batch up for a little while. If you're interested in more real-time updates during my speaking tour, please tune into my twitter feed.

In the meantime, I hope you enjoy all this multimedia content. In addition to some of my recent talks, you can learn more about the Startup Visa movement and enjoy two really interesting lean startup case studies.

My Stanford Entrepreneurial Thought Leader Seminar courtesy of Stanford Ecorner (audio podcast only for now, video coming soon):

if you'd like to follow along with slides, they are here:

2009 09 29 The Lean Startup At Stanford Entrepreneurial Thought Leader Seminar

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From high atop the BT Tower in London, this brief BT Tradespace interview:


Why do we need a Startup Visa? A Tale of 2 Erics:


Also in London, I took up a lot of airtime during day two of Seedcamp. You can read highlights on their blog, or watch this short video:


Seedcamp - Day 2 Highlights from Seedcamp on Vimeo.


Or watch my full #leanstartup presentation at Seedcamp in London:


And two bonus videos that are well worth watching (weally):

Timothy Fitz, who worked for me at IMVU, giving an in-depth presentation on the details of the continuous deployment system that we built there.


With accompanying slides:

Continuous Deployment

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pbWorks (formerly pbWiki) was one of the first companies that ever invited me to join their advisory board. I like to think that had some small part in causing their subsequent success. Judge for yourself by watching David Weekly's #leanstartup case study (pbWorks):


Thanks to everyone who has helped plan, organize, record and attend these many events!
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Last week, I had a unique opportunity to spend some time in Boulder at the behest of TechStars. It was a great experience to see a relatively new startup hub in action - and thriving. It's easy to take Silicon Valley for granted. The startup scene here can be ostentatious and serve as an echo chamber, amplifying the cool trend of the week into a deafening roar. But there's no denying the level of support for entrepreneurs that we enjoy. I've written a little bit about the origins of Silicon Valley because I think it's important for us to understand how we got here in order to make sure we preserve what is best about our community.

Traveling to Boulder I had the feeling of stepping back in time. It felt like I was watching a new startup hub in the process of being created. The companies I spoke to all agreed that the community there was extremely supportive, especially in the critical ulta-early-stage. That community is, by all accounts, relatively new - less than five years old according to several folks I asked. Even more impressive is that the culture there seems to have been the conscious creation of just a few people.

On my brief visit, the results were impressively on display. If you watch the video/audio below, you'll get to see some of the questions I was asked after my presentation. On the whole, I found them unusually sophisticated - and mostly rooted in the actual practice of entrepreneurship. I also did quite a bit of asking questions myself. I spent most of my time with TechStars, who were my hosts for the trip. Their model looks like a key ingredient in the startup brew there. Every summer, they bring approximately 10 companies to Boulder for an intense "accelerator" experience (don't call it an incubator, or you'll get dirty looks). They don't invest a lot of money; just enough to keep them going through the summer. They take common stock, not preferred, a fact that the entrepreneurs mentioned to me many times. And they expose the startups to a vast network of mentors, none of whom get paid for their involvement.

Some of the mentors are based in Boulder, but many are not. As a result, the companies get a lot of exposure to VC's, investors, and partners in larger, more traditional startup hubs. And, as one entrepreneur put it to me, "we understood that a big part of our responsibility in the program was to make sure the mentors have a good experience, by taking their advice to heart and giving them a feeling of being part of our evolution as a company." As a result, for a lot of these companies, Boulder is just a gateway to San Francisco. TechStars encourages them to go wherever opportunities take them. But even the companies that move on have had a taste of life in Boulder (it looks awfully nice). And every year, it looks as if one or two entrepreneurs from the program decide to stay.

That strikes me as a really smart formula for building a startup hub. First, pick a place that entrepreneurs (and other creative class-types) would love to live. Great weather, a strong university, outdoor sports, cafe culture, good restaurants - you get the idea. Then, create an encouraging environment for early-stage companies. You don't need massive amounts of capital available for VC investment - modest amounts will do. Accept that many successful companies are going to want to be backed by big-name firms in other cities. Instead, focus on getting them ready for that stage. Provide early seed capital, and be the ones to make those introductions. Make your city a gateway to other opportunities, so that entrepreneurs can increase their access by starting there. And do your customer development. If you talk to early-stage entrepreneurs who randomly landed in Silicon Valley, you'll hear just how hard it is to break into the scene here. Because you're not asking entrepreneurs to forsake those bigger cities, it's a no-brainer to give your city a shot.

Anyway, those are my thoughts after having spent only a few days in Boulder. You can see that it stimulated a lot of ideas; you'll have to evaluate the veracity of those ideas on your own. In the meantime, let me keep my promise of some multimedia. I did my best to capture video and audio; a YouTube playlist and Slideshare slidecast are below:



Slides (with audio):

2009 08 19 The Lean Startup TechStars Edition

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And, as usual, I wanted to share some of the audience reaction with my commentary. These quotes are, as is my custom, straight from twitter.

My biggest thanks goes to the people who generously sponsored scholarships for others to attend the dinner and workshop, Thank you so much!

ericries: special thanks once again to @fancy_free and @KISSmetrics for sponsoring scholarships for the #leanstartup workshop in Boulder.

I'm also excited to share two long-form reviews from actual attendees. I'm always excited to see how these ideas are expressed by entrepreneurs in their own words:

petewarden: Another blog post, this one on the @ericries Lean Startup Workshop I attended: http://bit.ly/4UWuf #leanstartup

tmarkiewicz: Notes from the Lean Startup Dinner with @ericries http://bit.ly/80kKW #leanstartup

And I can never resist sharing some positive feedback. I hope you'll indulge me - I need to have a copy of these testimonials for the record:

neilsimon: Thanks @ericries for the #leanstartup tips last night. Articulate, inspirational.

jdegoes: Great talk from @ericries last night. Inspiring ideas: real-time biz metrics; safe continuous deployment; A/B split testing. #leanstartup

feverishaaron: @ericries thanks for droppin' facts at the #leanstartup dinner. Learned a lot and enjoyed the discourse.

KevinMSmith: Excellent discussion on #leanstartup w/@ericries. If you get a chance go see him. If you don't get a chance , MAKE ONE. He's that good.

lmckeogh: Best $50 I've spent in last yr as unempl. prod mgr. #leanstartup dinner Boulder full of useful info that I want to apply [echo @roger_tee]

ultimateboy: #leanstartup was the most invigorating event I've ever attended. Thank you @ericries for drastically altering my perception of agile startup

Thank you all so much for your kind words. I was really overwhelmed this time. Now for some actual content:

jeantabaka: Really liked @ericries answer to adding in quality while still a startup #leanstartup

If you want to hear the exact question and answer, check the video. This was a question about how we convinced our investors to "allow" us to invest in quality after we'd shipped the initial buggy version of IMVU. That's always a tricky relationship to navigate, but we found a way to get our investors on board with that program by practicing a form of radical transparency. When they could hear the customers' complaints in their own voice, it became clear when it was time to up the quality level. We also had the benefit of many lean practices that break out of the "time, quality, money - pick two" paradox. (You can learn more about that by reading The engineering manager's lament.)

Here are two more questions that I really enjoyed answering:

roger_tee: At #leanstartup dinner w/ Eric Reis. Asked where I find visionary early adopters who pay 4 buggy beta SW. Killer answer.Ask me. #bdnt

nbauman: When to split test? Anytime anyone on the team thinks it could make a macroscopic change. Define macroscopic change! #leanstartup

I could recap these - but just go watch the video already!

And one last specific practice that came up at this session:

feverishaaron: UI, design and programmers are all in the same department, all have the same title, and all are evaluated the same. #leanstartup

We organized our engineering team at IMVU to try and maximize cross-functional collaboration. That meant getting designers, programmers, and QA folks to cross-train and work together as peers. By expressing these values as part of the formal structure of our department as well as the formal evaluation system, I think we went a long way towards reducing the usual internecine conflict between these groups.

Let me close with one last thought. I think it speaks for itself:

peterhoskins: At least have the courage to make new mistakes. #leanstartup

Thanks to everyone who participated and helped make these great events!

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One of the most important lean startup techniques is called the minimum viable product. Its power is matched only by the amount of confusion that it causes, because it's actually quite hard to do. It certainly took me many years to make sense of it.

I was delighted to be asked to give a brief talk about the MVP at the inaugural meetup of the lean startup circle here in San Francisco. Below you'll find the video of my remarks as well as the full slides embedded below. But I wanted to say a few words first.

First, a definition: the minimum viable product is that version of a new product which allows a team to collect the maximum amount of validated learning about customers with the least effort.

Some caveats right off the bat. MVP, despite the name, is not about creating minimal products. If your goal is simply to scratch a clear itch or build something for a quick flip, you really don't need the MVP. In fact, MVP is quite annoying, because it imposes extra overhead. We have to manage to learn something from our first product iteration. In a lot of cases, this requires a lot of energy invested in talking to customers or metrics and analytics.

Second, the definition's use of the words maximum and minimum means it is decidedly not formulaic. It requires judgment to figure out, for any given context, what MVP makes sense. As I talked about in a previous interview, IMVU's original MVP took us six months to bring to market. That was a pretty big improvement over a previous company, where we spent almost five years before launching. Yet in another situations we spent two weeks building a particular feature that absolutely nobody wanted. In retrospect, two weeks was way too long. We could have found out that nobody wanted the product a lot sooner. At a minimum, a simple AdWords smoke test would have revealed how utterly bad the concept was.

Without further ado, the video:


Slides are below:

Minimum Viable Product

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As a follow-up to my previous post on my talk for fbFund at Facebook, there was enough interest in watching video of the talk that I have finally uploaded it using Apple's MobileMe. There are three sizes of video available here; I've embedded the medium quality below. Because the Flip was set at a bad angle, you can't see the slides too well. I've embedded them via slideshare below the video, so you can follow along at home, if you'd like.

Edit: I finally got YouTube upload working, which has better embedding options than MobileMe. If you want to see the original video, use the link above.




Slides are below:

The Lean Startup fbFund Edition

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Before I close, let me quote just one additional bit of twitter feedback from one of the video beta-testers:

bmeschke: @ericries This is such GREAT information. A lot of it i have heard before, but your presentation is so clear. http://bit.ly/IMorB

bmeschke: @ericries @KhuramMalik has been trying to convince me of ur pov and i saw the value, but ur 2 startups example really gives in perspective.

I really value feedback like this; it keeps me going when I have doubts. I worry sometimes about making this blog too much into a travelogue or journal of my public events. My goal is to make everything I post here a substantive contribution to the larger entrepreneurship discussion; I hope to live up to that more often than not. As always, I welcome your feedback. If you have thoughts about the right balance of news, events, and commentary, feel free to leave it as a comment or drop me an email. I truly appreciate your support.

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First up is an interview with Mixergy, about lean startups and what to do if customers don't like your (initial) product. You can watch the whole hour-long discussion here. Here's a little taste from a story I've mentioned on this blog a few times, but haven't discussed in detail, about the decision at IMVU to abandon our IM add-on concept; you can also watch an excerpt on YouTube.

I mean, it requires a lot of explanation. instant messaging add-on - it’s not a category that exists in her mind. But, since she’s in the room with us we can talk her into doing it. So she downloads the product, we have her install it on the computer, and we’re like “okay, it’s time to check it out, you know, invite one of your friends to chat.”

She says, “no way.”

We say, “Why not?”

She says, “I don’t know if this thing is cool yet. You want me to risk inviting my friends to a thing that I don’t think is cool? What are they going to think of me? If it sucks, they’re going to think I suck, right?”

And we say “No, no, it’s going to be so fun. It’s a social product…”

And the look of dubiousness, I mean, you can just see, this is a dealbreaker. And of course the first time you have that experience you say, “All right, it’s just that person, let em out, you know, send them away. Get me a new one.”

So then the second customer comes in. Same thing. Third customer comes in, same thing. You start to see these patterns and you’re like, okay. No matter how stubborn you are there’s got to be something wrong here.

Watch the rest here...

Here's an excerpt from YouTube:






Second, the complete audio (with slides) from my webcast last week is up on YouTube now too:



I hope you'll indulge me as I share some of the testimonials we heard from the participants who opted to answer the post-event survey. I'm trying to get better about taking advantage of the many testimonials you all have written for me. Thank you all so much.

His thinking about the relationship between business and technology is refreshing. His understanding of development problems impressive. I can't think of anyone who would not benefit from the presentation. No wonder Kent B. was there!

-Blaine Wishart

I was pleasantly surprised at how concise, useful and poignant the content was...well worth the time!

-Brian Moelk

Great presentation, as always!

-Sachin Rekhi

Eric is one of the smartest guys in the business.

-Ryan Kuder

Probably the best thing was knowing that Eric has done this and seen it work. It's not just a hypothesis but he has real working knowledge

- Trevor Gerzen

I absolutely loved the closing. "Stop typing, take your hands off the keyboard. Think of one concrete thing you can do in the next 24 hours to move you closer to this." Long pause. "Thanks for listening."

-Kyle Maxwell

Inspiring presentation, makes the daunting process of putting together a startup seem just a bit less daunting.

-Lawrence Green

Thanks for reading, listening, and watching. Your feedback, positive or negative, is always welcome.

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Two new videos are online from recent speeches. The first is my talk on engagement loops and the levers of engagement from the Kontagent/Facebook Developer Garage. Slides from this talk are available here. For more on the subject of engagement loops, you can read my original essay here.

5. Eric Ries - Engagement Loops 3. Justin Smith - Social Gaming Trends - @ Kontagent / Facebook Dev Garage from albert lai on Vimeo.

(This also gives me a chance to clarify that I am no relation to the author of the classic book on positioning, Al Ries)


Next up, here's the video from my talk with Steve Blank at startup2startup. I've embedded the slides below the video feed.

Customer Development at Startup2Startup

Thanks for watching!

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