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Lessons Learned: Lean hiring tips

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 19, 2009 Lean hiring tips In preparing for the strategy series panel this week, I have been doing some thinking about costs. And all of that cost was caused by one activity: hiring. Hiring is no different from any other company process. Sounds a little abstract, though, doesnt it?

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Datablindness

Startup Lessons Learned

So the product development team was busy creating lots of split-tests for lots of hypotheses. Within a few weeks, they have already discovered that huge parts of their product, which cause a lot of extra work for the product development team due to their complexity, are not affecting customer behavior at all.

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The Lean Entrepreneur is here

Startup Lessons Learned

The Embrace infant warmer was developed - by getting out of the country -- and how Rob Emrich learned and scaled his non-profit, Road of Life. Struggling to explain the successes and failures of those companies, I discussed principles like continuous deployment, customer development, and a hyper-accelerated form of agile.

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