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Lessons Learned: The four kinds of work, and how to get them done.

Startup Lessons Learned

Another advantage of the early stages is that most dont have to juggle too many competing priorities. If you dont have customers, a product, investors, or a board of directors, you can pretty much stay focused on just one thing at a time. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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How to listen to customers, and not just the loud people

Startup Lessons Learned

The people who are the lifeblood of an early-stage startup are earlyvangelists. These are people who understand the vision of your company even before the product lives up to it, and, most importantly, will buy your product on that basis. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and what's changed since.

Startup Lessons Learned

The economics of these process trade-offs are discussed in the Principles of Product Development Flow.) Heres an excerpt: In a previous article, we called Toyota’s product development system the “second Toyota paradox.&# Labels: product development 5comments: new york web development company said.

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Lo, my 2295 subscribers, who are you?

Startup Lessons Learned

Thanks to those of you who were willing to fill out the survey, I learned my net promoter score (about 25) as well as some clear other segmentation insights: about 80% of you are founders of or work at a startup, you read many of the same other blogs, and many of you would like to engage with Lessons Learned in formats and venues beyond this blog.

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Lo, my 1032 subscribers, who are you?

Startup Lessons Learned

What all these teachers had in common were two things: they were technology early adopters that were willing to take a chance on a new software product, and they all had similar problems organizing their classes and students. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Lo, my 1032 subscribers, who are you?

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10 years of entrepreneurship

Startup Lessons Learned

We were focused on revenue, but we didnt understand that revenue is not important for its own sake in an early stage company. I had the good fortune of working at Intuit in the early years and that is what Scott Cook always talked about and it worked out well for all involved. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.