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Lessons Learned: Combining agile development with customer development

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, March 16, 2009 Combining agile development with customer development Today I read an excellent blog post that I just had to share. Jim Murphy is a long-time agile practitioner in startups. But startups sometimes have trouble applying agile successfully.

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Five common misconceptions about building a startup in New York City

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It’s really difficult for me not to get into the thick of discussions about whether or not you can and/or should build a company in New York City. If your first resort when you have trouble raising money is to complain about New York on a tech blog, you’re really doing yourself a disservice in the relationship building area.

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Crisis versus Opportunity: 6 Ways to Bootstrap a Startup in a Post-COVID-19 World While Navigating the New Normal

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Governor Cuomo, governor of New York State, USA, highlighted the quintessential issue with the coronavirus pandemic in his conversation with Howard Stern on 13 April 2020. In other words, you must start bootstrapping an online startup , because the future of the global business world is online. Ways to bootstrap a startup.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

It should be even more important to the founders themselves, because it demonstrates that their business hypothesis is grounded in reality. These founders have not managed, to borrow a phrase from Steve Blank , to create a scalable and repeatable sales process. Go on an agile diet quickly. More on that in a moment.

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The lean startup @ Web 2.0 Expo (and a call for help)

Startup Lessons Learned

The Lean Startup is a practical approach for creating and managing a new breed of company that excels in low-cost experimentation, rapid iteration, and true customer insight. It uses principles of agile software development, open source and web 2.0, Labels: events 2comments: Andrew Meyer said. I am extending it to all start-ups.

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The Lean Startup Workshop - now an O'Reilly Master Class

Startup Lessons Learned

I closed down my first business last November and I am bootstrapping the second one currently. We changed our model to B2B and adopted Agile around 2002. I would love to attend one of the Lean Start-up Workshops, but unfortunately that would be difficult for me to do so financially. Cash is tight. Expo SF (May.

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Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases non-events

Startup Lessons Learned

Ash Maurya is the founder of WiredReach , a bootstrapped startup that he has been running for seven years. My transition to Continuous Deployment Prior to adopting continuous deployment, I used to release software on a weekly schedule (come rain or shine) which I viewed as pretty agile, disciplined, and aggressive. Expo SF (May.