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SuperMac War Story 9: Sales, Not Awards « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

And the final lesson was that we were keeping score on our packaging with the wrong metrics – it wasn’t about awards, it was about sales in the retail channel. Hopefully you and your co-founders are experts in one or two parts (agile development, SEO/SEM, etc.) demand creation strategy).

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Sneak preview, KISSmetrics (and more)

Startup Lessons Learned

Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets. Learning is better than optimization (the local ma.

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Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets

Startup Lessons Learned

Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? Microsoft will be making scholarships available to companies in their BizSpark program; stay tuned for details. Expo SF (May.

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Lessons Learned: Built to learn

Startup Lessons Learned

Thats the essence of so many of the lean startup techniques Ive evangelized: customer development , the Ideas/Code/Data feedback loop , and the adaptation of agile development to the startup experience. Creating a company-wide feedback loop that incorporates both customer development and agile development is a challenge.

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10 years of entrepreneurship

Startup Lessons Learned

Be sure that you´ve already helped me and some friends a lot (down here in Brazil) to become better entrepreuneurs. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down?

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The Steve Jobs method

Startup Lessons Learned

So I don't think the Apple experience should be used to discount lean, agile, or customer development-type approaches. Best wishes, Miguel Cavalcanti, from Brazil @mcavalcanti August 19, 2009 3:08 PM Andykiteman said. They do lots of prototypes internally. Tks a lot for sharing. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Tools

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Github - Free public repositories, collaborator management, issue tracking, wikis, downloads, code review, graphs Pivotal Tracker – Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. I have recently been doing some research on Entrepreneurship in Brazil, while also trying to start my own company.