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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. So far, I have found "lean startup" works better with the entrepreneurs Ive talked to than "agile startup" or even "extreme startup.") Of course, many startups are capital efficient and generally frugal.

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The Lean LaunchPad – Teaching Entrepreneurship as a Management Science

Steve Blank

I’ve introduced a new class at Stanford to teach engineers, scientists and other professionals how startups really get built. There are few courses which teach aspiring entrepreneurs the skills (business models, customer and agile development, design thinking, etc.) ——————– Engineering 245.

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Lessons Learned: CPI > CPC

Startup Lessons Learned

This model has not translated well to the world of social networking, because customers of social networks engage sites in a different way than customers of search engines. Other than that, you know their IP address, maybe their browser version or what country they are in. In other words, not very much. Expo SF (May.

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Twitter Link Roundup #71 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

The Top 20 VC Power Bloggers Of 2010 – [link]. Is Your Service Agile? Interesting foursquare infographic on check-ins in 2010 – [link]. British Engineer Designs Own Heart Valve Implant, Saves Own Life – [link]. With increasing numbers of mobile apps, IP theft is becoming more common – [link].

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The Sharp End of the Stick « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

And the same time we were also going to do all the other strategic stuff about pricing, positioning, promotion and customer discovery and validation to help engineering understand customer needs. In an IP licensing business, legal and finance are the sharp end of the stick. But sales came first. (By

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An Extensive Guide To Web Form Usability

uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com

For example, pre-select the user’s country based on their IP address. It should be possible to switch the formatting based on location, either by prompting for location or by IP lookup. From what I have seen in conferences where Amazon engineers gave talks, they seriously test *everything* on their UX/UI. Publishing Policy.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

You can measure this yourself: go to any list of startups, maybe look at YCombinator’s recent graduate class , or Scoble’s list of picks for 2010 , or Sequoia’s list of seed companies — or go find a list you like better. It’s also missing the point of engineering anything. How about ABAPer? Elaine Kenny.

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