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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and in 2009 he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership. He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). So much for timing.

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A Micropreneur's Perspective: Selling Physical Products vs.

Software By Rob

As a developer you have the ability to build/hire out/buy applications and websites, where the margin is huge and you have something unique. Whether you’re selling invoicing software or performance management software your gross margin is going to be close to 100%. However, it all still depends on the audience.

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The Zero Dollar Consultancy

Duct Tape Marketing

No, not 19 2006, not 1996, 2006. So how you can pick, you might say, you know what, I like working with middle managers. I like working with program managers. I like working with software developers. I still have to manage them. Phil (01:40): Well, when I started, I had no clue. I remember back in 19 what?

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Lousy Products Might Break Your Bones – But A Name Will Seldom Hurt You

infochachkie.com

Lousy Products Might Break Your Bones – But A Name Will Seldom Hurt You John Greathouse – Posted in: Entrepreneur , Strategic Planning. With a name like Smucker’s, it has to be good.” I would think that with a name like Smucker’s it has to be a vile disease or possibly a large, poisonous, South American leech.

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How to Start a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

If you work your way down the Forbes 400 making an x next to the name of each person with an MBA, youll learn something importantabout business school. This was not uncommonduring the Bubble, especially in companies run by business types, who thought of software development as something terrifying thattherefore had to be carefully planned.

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Why We Prefer Founding CEOs

Ben's Blog

joined as a General Manager of the Computing Tabulating Recording Company, but renamed the company International Business Machines and turned it into the IBM we recognize today. In retrospect, it seems totally natural that Larry Ellison transformed Software Development Labs from a consulting business into a software company called Oracle.

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How Third-Party Licensing Can Ruin Your Launch

Software By Rob

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← What is the Micropreneur Academy? at 12:45 pm Rob, why aren’t you telling us the name of the company? #8 Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed.