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Lessons Learned: Lean hiring tips

Startup Lessons Learned

One, which is described in great detail in the Mythical Man-Month (in finding that link, I discovered that today is coincidentally the exact 11th anniversary of my first purchasing that book: Jan 19, 1998), is that as you add people to a team or project, there is an increase in communications overhead that makes everyone slightly less productive.

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Datablindness

Startup Lessons Learned

A similar kind of datablindness happened in the US intelligence community in the decades following the launch of photoreconnaissance satellites. In May of 1998, India detonated several nuclear weapons at a test site near New Delhi. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May.

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The Lean Entrepreneur is here

Startup Lessons Learned

BetaBrand building apparel MVPs and testing them quickly with targeted customer communities. My personal background was as an engineer and my companies had been Web-based startups, so that is what I wrote about. A nascent community has blossomed into a full-fledged movement. Social entrepreneurs take note!)

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