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Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Harvard Business.

Startup Lessons Learned

Behind this analysis is a spreadsheet model, complete with detailed metrics for a set of customer behaviors that show just how valuable the new product will be. They are on-schedule and on-budget, but their gross metrics are way off. They are on-schedule and on-budget, but their gross metrics are way off. Expo SF (May.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

Every board meeting, the metrics of success change. This wasn’t very impressive, but we had two things going for us: A hockey stick shaped growth curve. People often forget the most important part of the hockey stick: the long flat part. Go on an agile diet quickly. Great post!

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Lessons Learned: A hierarchy of pitches

Startup Lessons Learned

Most important slide: hockey stick Micro-scale results Key questions: who is the customer, and how do you know? 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?