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Hear how the Lean Startup began — and helped one company find success: Episode 2 on Sirius XM Channel 111: Eric Ries and Jon Sebastiani

Steve Blank

My guests on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on Sirius XM Channel 111 were: Eric Ries , entrepreneur and author of the New York Times bestseller, The Lean Startup. Eric was the very first practitioner of my Customer Development methodology which became the core of the the Lean methodology.

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Case Study: Lean UX at work

Startup Lessons Learned

Jeff has been promoting the use of Lean UX as an effective method to spur greater innovation, quality and productivity in startups as well as within teams in larger organizations. Lean Startups need to make snap decisions, iterate quickly and pivot when needed. I’m happy to report the answer is “yes” as we’ve proven at TheLadders.

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Finding a Technical Cofounder

bizthoughts.mikelee.org

BizThoughts Thoughts about business, technology, the web & entrepreneurship About Booklist Contact Nov 15 2011 Finding a Technical Cofounder By Mike Lee Categories: Entrepreneurship , Leadership Since I have a technical background, I get about one offer a month to join some engineering team, or to be a technical cofounder.

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Crowdsourcing: a 7+7 Primer (Pt. 1)

crowdSPRING Blog

We write often about small businesses and startups and lean approaches to marketing and other business functions. A great example of this is General Electric which in 2010 launched their Ecomagination challenge develop viable ideas for smart grid technologies. Related posts: The State of the Crowdsourcing Union, 2011.

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Finding Technical Cofounders Is Hard

rob.by

He argued that software engineers don’t finish what they start, and that you’re better off paying a technical person than partnering with one. Michael’s second problem comes from holding software engineers to an unprecedented standard of business savviness: Most software engineers aren’t business people.

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@altgate » Blog Archive » Outsourcing For Startups

Altgate

The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded). Engineering/QA. For the vast majority of software startups, the actual code / development process is infrequently a competitive advantage; ergo, you ought to consider outsourcing.

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Why you can('t) recruit a technical cofounder

blog.launchbit.com

March 10, 2011. While the reponses for both leaned toward more important, both had a significant number of people saying it wasnt such a big deal. Some people suggested proven success in marketing or business development and possibly even an MBA. « Back to blog. Viewed times. Favorited 4 times. Fans of this post.