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Lean Startup at Scale

Startup Lessons Learned

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. As Lean Startup methods have been used now for a number of years, we’ve become increasingly interested in how companies use them to sustain growth. But we couldn''t have identified this without having clear metrics (that high bug count) to assess our development process.

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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

Venture Capitalists on your board developed the expertise to get your firm public as soon as possible using whatever it took including hype, spin, expand, and grab market share because the sooner you got your billion dollar market cap, the sooner the VC firm could sell their shares and distribute their profits. Warning sign? At best. ~

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

Even though I had done it before, I had never heard the term sharding before joining Google (early 2003) so I always thought the term originated there. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Eric, I stop by regularly!