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Case Study: Rapid iteration with hardware

Startup Lessons Learned

Eric) In a bar in Amsterdam in 2005, my two cofounders and I came to the sad conclusion that startup we tried to built for two years was doomed. My co-founders decided startup life wasn't for them. Continuous deployment of hardware is an exciting new capability. What follows are solely his opinions.

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Lessons Learned: Great open source scalability tools from Danga

Startup Lessons Learned

You can find the 2005 version here. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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The new startup arms race (for Huffington Post)

Startup Lessons Learned

For example, over 25% of the technology companies founded between 1995-2005 had a key immigrant founder. These companies produced over $52 billion dollars in sales in 2005, and employed 450,000 workers that year. Similarly, 24% of all the patents filed in the US in 2006 had a foreign resident as inventor or co-inventor.

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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

Startup Lessons Learned

In fact, the data (www.php.net/usage.php) show that PHP's adoption flattened in the middle of 2005. Well, web development has continued to grow, so it must be growing elsewhere. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Does anyone even believe that >50% of web pages are served by PHP? Excellent article.

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