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

Startup Lessons Learned

Twitter about it or post it to a social media site? 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. Would you be willing to link to the Master Class info page from your blog? Cash is tight. It was a disaster.

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10 Tips for Enterprise Software Startups

ReadWriteStart

I started my career in enterprise software in the 1980s and after some years working in other areas (outsourcing and online media) I am back in the enterprise software game. The big enterprise software companies almost all bootstrapped their way to profitability before they got their first external investors (typically via an IPO).

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The Future of Startups 2013-2017

Scalable Startup

So a lot of incumbent business software companies did what a lot of big companies actually did and other industries, media companies after the dot-com crash, which is they said, “Oh, thank God we don’t have to worry about this Internet thing. Stick a fork in it. It’s not going to be a big deal.” The GitHub guys did an amazing job.