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The Lean Startup Workshop - now an O'Reilly Master Class

Startup Lessons Learned

I joined a financial services tech startup in 1999. We changed our model to B2B and adopted Agile around 2002. Having lived through this, I wholeheartedly agree that if we had not had enough runway, adopted an agile/lean approach or had patience from our investors it would have failed miserably. May 14, 2009 5:23 AM David said.

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Waves of technology platforms

Startup Lessons Learned

I was building a new startup in 1999, and wanted to do it right. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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10 years of entrepreneurship

Startup Lessons Learned

In the summer of 1999, I started working on a startup from my college dorm. Id been on the internet since I was playing MUDs as a kid, but by 1999 I felt Id already missed the boat. You can even see the humiliating evidence of my smug incompetence in this absurd article from 1999.) I pretty much missed all the trends.