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Don’t Roll out the Red Carpet on the Way out the Door

Both Sides of the Table

Before I started my first company in 1999 I worked for Andersen Consulting (now Accenture). Ryan was the most talented technologist we had hired at BuildOnline. We hired Ryan at a really young age and without a tremendous amount of prior experience. So we decided to sponsor Ryan to work out of the US in San Francisco.

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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. So one of the first things we did was to hire an Oracle expert and get to work. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 8, 2008 Waves of technology platforms I still remember the first time I switched to LAMP.

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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. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Expo New York New York, NY Nov 19 The Lean Startup at MIT Boston, MA Nov 20 Lunch workshop at Dogpatch Labs Boston, MA Dec 17 Lean Startup Cohort program begins San Francisco, CA KISSmetrics KISSmetrics is loading.

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One More Time: No NDAs

dashes.com

If someone hired you, would you have your lawyer look over the NDA? Expo San Francisco 2010 ) and a whole lot of them are very well positioned. Im Anil Dash, and Ive blogged half a million words here since 1999, writing about how culture is made. dan.sanderson. | May 8, 2010 12:38 PM. hashimwarren. | May 9, 2010 1:10 AM.

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The Lean Entrepreneur is here

Startup Lessons Learned

A few of the detailed case studies include: Tech legend Bill Gross building an MVP in 1999 to test demand for online car sales, which grew into CarsDirect.com. Eric Ries, San Francisco, December 2012 If you want to read more, you can find an excerpt of Chapter 6, Viability Experiments here.

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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.) April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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Top 30 Startup Technology and Product Posts for September 2010

SoCal CTO

8220; His three things (worth reading his whole post anyway) are set vision/strategy and communicate broadly, recruit/hire/retain top talent, and make sure there’s enough cash in the bank. It’s a San Francisco Bay Area forum for networking, jobs and education for over 500 Product Management professionals. It’s great advice.