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Why Founders Should Know How to Code

Steve Blank

While he correctly understood how to frame his hypotheses with a business model canvas, and he was doing a good job in customer development – the third component of Lean is using Agile Development to rapidly and iteratively build incrementally better versions of the product – in the form of minimal viable products (MVP’s).

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On deployment

Startup Lessons Learned

And the same is true in reverse - a lone brilliant coder can build a great widget, but it takes a system of people working well together to produce consistently great results. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Mechanical mistakes are the result of human mistakes.

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Why Continuous Deployment?

Startup Lessons Learned

So developers stuck in this world tend to think the other developers on their team are either, deep in their souls, plodding pedants or sloppy coders. At IMVU, we would occasionally hire someone from a more traditional organization who had a hard time letting go of their “best practices&# and habits. Expo SF (May.

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Lessons Learned: Throwing away working code

Startup Lessons Learned

This builds on a lot of great thinking that has come before, like the agile movements insistence that only the creation of working code counts as progress for a software development team. As a fellow coder, I empathizes with you about having to throw away work that wasnt broken in anything but a business sense. Expo SF (May.

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Lean Startup webcast post-game

Startup Lessons Learned

LIKED: Y startups fail, cont deployment vs waterfall vs agile, small batches & learn fr biz metrics #leanstartup As concise a summary as Ive ever seen. How many people - coders - do you think a small startup with a 6mm pages/month site should have? farazq : Awesome session @ericries. but Im always short in hands. Expo SF (May.

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Lessons Learned: The App Store after the gold rush

Startup Lessons Learned

The App Store is a channel for customer acquisition. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R. ► May (3) Thank you Philosophy Helps Start-Ups Move Faster (WSJ on the. . Expo SF (May.

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Women 2.0 » FounderDating: How I Found My Co-Founder

www.women2.org

After quitting my job and starting Sorced , I spent a few months validating my business concept by creating the product mockups and doing customer development. I first spent time trying to build it myself leveraging open source tools, applying my skills from a single CS class, and trying to be an autodidactic coder.