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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 38: Ryan Smith and Lane Merrifield

Steve Blank

Values – who and what founders and customers hold dear – were the focus on today’s Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show. The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Lane Merrifield.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 38: Ryan Smith and Lane Merrifield

Steve Blank

Values – who and what founders and customers hold dear – were the focus on today’s Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show. The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Lane Merrifield.

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

Startup Lessons Learned

Im working on a future post where Ill share the details of how I used customer development to shape both the content and packaging of this event, so look for that soon. I closed down my first business last November and I am bootstrapping the second one currently. We changed our model to B2B and adopted Agile around 2002.

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From Business Guy to Programmer

Spencer Fry

and How to Bootstrap among others. Back in what seems like forever ago, I started freshman year of college in 2002 with the full intention of majoring in Computer Science. I've co-founded a handful of small businesses as a non-technical co-founder, TypeFrag and Carbonmade being the most successful. More to come.

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10 Tips for Enterprise Software Startups

ReadWriteStart

But you don't have any lords and masters to answer to and the pay out goes entirely to the founders and management team. The big enterprise software companies almost all bootstrapped their way to profitability before they got their first external investors (typically via an IPO). Photo by LotusHead. That is just lipstick on a pig.

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How an experienced Asp.net developer multiplied his productivity.

Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

In the last two years, my productivity also improved when I started developing and experimenting with my own business ideas during my spare time. But after a discussion with Hendro , founder of Moluko , I decided to give Ruby on Rails another go. So far I have developed two projects in Ruby on Rails. I learned Ruby on Rails.

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How an experienced Asp.net developer multiplied his productivity.

Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

In the last two years, my productivity also improved when I started developing and experimenting with my own business ideas during my spare time. But after a discussion with Hendro , founder of Moluko , I decided to give Ruby on Rails another go. So far I have developed two projects in Ruby on Rails. I learned Ruby on Rails.

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