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The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development

Startup Lessons Learned

Brant and Patrick undertook a difficult challenge: to provide a generally accessible introduction to Customer Development, without diluting its impact or dumbing-down its principles. On the minus side, that has made it a wee bit hard to understand. I think theyve succeeded. The Entrepreneur’s Guide is an easy read.

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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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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

Despite all the energy invested in talking to authors about the size of their platform, very few gatekeepers have a rigorous set of metrics for measuring it. And as everyone’s attention starts to focus on those same indicators, their value is being diluted. My blog has over 14000 subscribers, for example. Is that a lot?

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A real Customer Advisory Board

Startup Lessons Learned

Every time you listen to customers, you fear diluting your vision. Every time you listen to customers, you fear diluting your vision. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, That’s natural. That’s natural. Expo SF (May.

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90 Things I've Learned From Founding 4 Technology Companies

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On October 27, 2010 I wrote a blog post about the “ 57 Things I Learned Founding 3 Tech Companies.”. A couple of dilution points here or there wont matter in the long run but working with the right people will.? Don’t skimp on fundraising because of dilution fears.?. Find one person, make them your sherpa, and lean on them.

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People-First Capitalism

Reid Hoffman

So you met me in 2010. We can either try to step forward and be progressive and really try to lean forward, or we can get dragged in the future. The burden [should] just be that we care; that if we learn something, we improve it, and that we don’t only use single output metrics and its growth at all costs. And it was 2007.

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People-First Capitalism

Reid Hoffman

So you met me in 2010. We can either try to step forward and be progressive and really try to lean forward, or we can get dragged in the future. The burden [should] just be that we care; that if we learn something, we improve it, and that we don’t only use single output metrics and its growth at all costs. And it was 2007.