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Never Mind the Valley: Here's Paris

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If you're capable of seeing past the old stones of Paris and the picturesque rural villages, you'll realize that France is every bit as technologically advanced as any other Western country - more so in some areas. Want to start up in France? billion online in the first quarter of this year. So what are you waiting for?

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Qunb wins the LeWeb 12 startup competition, helps users find and visualize numerical data

The Next Web

And the winner is … Qunb , a Paris, France-based startup that wants to help users – both individuals and corporations – find, share, visualize and download numerical data. And it wasn’t their fault, I think.

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Travel Tech Company Stay22 Raises $750K As Event Travel Industry Calls for Change

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Recent funding is being used to develop its product using predictive booking pattern algorithms and to expand its sales and development teams. Stay22’s product is an interactive map created for consumers, ticketers and organizers in the event travel industry. Business is progressing well for Stay22.

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It's a startup, not a spreadsheet

Startup Lessons Learned

Sometimes an early negative result from an experiment is a harbinger of doom for that product, and means it should be abandoned. Imagine a general manager that has read The Innovator’s Dilemma and related books, and is therefore trying hard to help her organization make a transition to a new product category via disruptive innovation.

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Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases non-events

Startup Lessons Learned

Continuous Flow Manufacturing is a Lean technique that boosts productivity by rearranging manufacturing processes so products are built end-to-end, one at a time (using singe-piece flow), versus the more prevalent batch and queue approach. No one wants to be solely responsible for bringing a production system down.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

This may sound crazy, coming as it does from an advocate of c harging customers for your product from day one. Their product definition fluctuates wildly – one month, it’s a dessert topping, the next it’s a floor wax. In fact, this company hasn’t shipped any new products in months. What’s going on?

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

And once you have a relationship with an author, musician, or journalist, it will be quite easy for them to offer new products and services – and for you to give them feedback that helps them shape ever more interesting (and ever more profitable) offerings. There are too many products clamoring for attention. Is that a lot?