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See More than 120 Speakers and Mentors at The Lean Startup Conference

Startup Lessons Learned

He’s a founder of Andreessen Horowitz, which has backed Facebook, Skype, Jawbone, and dozens of other companies whose products you use. Bill Gross founded Idealab in 1996, making it the longest-running technology incubator alive today. And the whole site was developed in just 9 weeks. Eric Ries will interview him.

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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). While an undergraduate at Yale Unviersity, he co-founded Catalyst Recruiting.

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The Ultimate Guide to Starting a Software Company

Up and Running

Since the term “cloud computing” was coined in 1996—at least as we have come to understand its meaning—the software as a service industry has exploded. If you want a slice of the pie, there isn’t a better time to get involved. Noah has been a key figure in the making of LivePlan, our own SaaS product. The business model.