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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

Another topic we debated early in the program was “lean startup” vs. “ fat startup ” where we both took the obvious hedge and said “it depends.” But truthfully both Dana and I are more aligned with the lean startup principles and believe you only go FAT when you’ve really proved out your product / market fit. Employees: 20.

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

I hope to show why lean and agile techniques actually reduce the negative impacts of technical debt and increase our ability to take advantage of its positive effects. In addition, third-party services and API’s enabled us to do more with less, but at a cost: taking on the technical debt of products and teams outside our direct control.

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Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development

Steve Blank

However the Customer Development Model and the Lean Startup work equally well for startups on the web. The first question to ask is: “Does your startup have market risk or is it dominated by technical risk?” Lean Startup /Customer Development is used to find answers to the unknowns about customers and markets. Keep teaching!

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Why Continuous Deployment?

Startup Lessons Learned

Of all the tactics I have advocated as part of the lean startup , none has provoked as many extreme reactions as continuous deployment , a process that allows companies to release software in minutes instead of days, weeks, or months. January 29, 2010 11:18 AM Eric said. > January 29, 2010 12:55 PM Gareth Evans said.

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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

The idea is that once we move to the new system (or coding standard, or API, or.) I now believe that the "pick two" concept is fundamentally flawed, and that lean startups can achieve all three simultaneously: quickly bring high-quality software to market at low cost. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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Continuous deployment for mission-critical applications

Startup Lessons Learned

A typical "new feature" release is, in my experience, about 80% changes to underlying APIs or architecture. A typical "new feature" release is, in my experience, about 80% changes to underlying APIs or architecture. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Thats because of the anatomy of a release. Expo SF (May.

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Lessons Learned: Product development leverage

Startup Lessons Learned

Its a key lean startup concept. Open APIs and data-oriented architecture (aka "web 2.0"). For example, I recently created a customer validation exercise around the Lean Startup Workshop. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. The much-promised era of component reuse in software is finally upon us.