Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 30, 2009

In 2002 I became exposed to the idea of “agile software development&# and subsequently was a first round investor in Rally Software which is now the market leader in Agile application lifecycle management software. The visionary’s lament The Superbowl ad test Lo, my 57692 subscribers, who are you? Expo SF (May.

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Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment DC 68

View from Seed

JUNE 17, 2015

But the first real time we had a big celebration and folks felt like we’d “made it” was the party we held in the parking lot on February 14, 2002 when PayPal went public. We’re hearing more about people new to startups asking their seed stage company how many months of severance is included in their package.

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Startup Cofounder Seed Stage IPO 120

Agile VC

JUNE 17, 2015

But the first real time we had a big celebration and folks felt like we’d “made it” was the party we held in the parking lot on February 14, 2002 when PayPal went public. We’re hearing more about people new to startups asking their seed stage company how many months of severance is included in their package.

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Startup Cofounder Seed Stage IPO 188

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

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. This shift allowed us to crank out working software quickly as a service.

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Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment Software Review 60

Agile VC

JUNE 17, 2015

But the first real time we had a big celebration and folks felt like we’d “made it” was the party we held in the parking lot on February 14, 2002 when PayPal went public. We’re hearing more about people new to startups asking their seed stage company how many months of severance is included in their package.

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Startup Cofounder Seed Stage IPO 100

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 19, 2009

We do not develop a product until we get a paying customer," says Orit Pennington , who co-founded the six-employee company with her husband in 2002. We do not develop a product until we get a paying customer," says Orit Pennington , who co-founded the six-employee company with her husband in 2002. Expo SF (May.

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San Francisco Product Lean Continuous Deployment 137

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Teams use the Lean Startup toolkit: the Business Model Canvas + Customer Development process + Agile Engineering. Or the founder, or the product, or the market – no metrics can measure those intangibles. A Lean Startup methodology offers entrepreneurs a framework to focus on what’s important: Business Model Discovery.

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