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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, July 29, 2009 Embrace technical debt Financial debt plays an important and positive role in our economy under normal conditions. The human tendency to moralize about debt affects engineers, too. But there is more to technical debt than just the interest payments that come due.

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Ardent War Story 6: Listen more, talk less

Steve Blank

Getting Out of the Building Wasn’t Entertainment – Discovery and Validation Now that I was the master of the “facts” about customer needs in these specialized vertical markets , and with my team of vertical marketers , I thought I had achieved absolution and redemption. Did the customers know they had a problem?

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How to Compete Against Open Source Competition

Software By Rob

This lasted for about three months. I remember riding across campus, about a 15 minute ride (each way) to save $.50 And yes, I know about Ubuntu. Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Why would someone pay $299 per user when there’s a perfectly suitable alternative available for free?!