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Building a new startup hub

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, August 26, 2009 Building a new startup hub Last week, I had a unique opportunity to spend some time in Boulder at the behest of TechStars. The companies I spoke to all agreed that the community there was extremely supportive, especially in the critical ulta-early-stage.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Validated learning about customers Would you rather have $30,000 or $1 million in revenues for your startup? In an early-stage startup especially, revenue is not an important goal in and of itself. In fact, this company hasn’t shipped any new products in months.

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Techstars brings The Lean Startup to Boulder

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, July 30, 2009 Techstars brings The Lean Startup to Boulder Im very excited to announce a pair of events that will kick off a very busy fall speaking tour. A discounted price is available for early stage entrepreneurs and students. July 30, 2009 7:35 AM Hazem Awad said. Read the rest.

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Lessons Learned: Don't launch

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, March 13, 2009 Dont launch Heres a common question I get from startups, especially in the early stages: when should we launch? This is the usual reason given for a marketing launch, but for most early stage startups, its a failure. March 13, 2009 1:50 PM dan simard said.

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Lessons Learned: The four kinds of work, and how to get them done.

Startup Lessons Learned

Another advantage of the early stages is that most dont have to juggle too many competing priorities. If you dont have customers, a product, investors, or a board of directors, you can pretty much stay focused on just one thing at a time. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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How to listen to customers, and not just the loud people

Startup Lessons Learned

The people who are the lifeblood of an early-stage startup are earlyvangelists. These are people who understand the vision of your company even before the product lives up to it, and, most importantly, will buy your product on that basis. September 25, 2009 5:23 PM jchunter said. Dont confuse passion with volume.

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Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and what's changed since.

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, August 8, 2009 Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and whats changed since then) My recent article on technical debt and its positive uses generated a fair bit of controversy. The economics of these process trade-offs are discussed in the Principles of Product Development Flow.)