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Thank you

Startup Lessons Learned

When I first encountered customer development , it was considered pure lunacy by mainstream entrepreneurs and VCs. If thats true, its primarily due to your hard work, building companies and testing new ideas. Entrepreneurship is the life-blood of our global civilization. We all owe him our thanks for persevering.

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New conference website, speakers, agenda

Startup Lessons Learned

Each part of the program is organized around one phase of the Build-Measure-Learn feedback loop and begins with a keynote address from a heavy hitter: Steve Blank on Customer Development, Randy Komisar on "Getting to Plan B" and - a third person, not-yet-announced-but-extremely-cool-trust-me. People, not as much. People, not as much.

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

I hope to show why lean and agile techniques actually reduce the negative impacts of technical debt and increase our ability to take advantage of its positive effects. Just as a business incurs some debt to take advantage of a market opportunity developers may incur technical debt to hit an important deadline.

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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

As I evolved my thinking, I started to frame the problem this way: How can we devise a product development process that allows the business leaders to take responsibility for the outcome by making conscious trade-offs? When I first encountered agile software techniques, in the form of extreme programming , I thought I had found the answer.

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Lessons Learned: Please teach kids programming, Mr. President

Startup Lessons Learned

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? 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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International tour about to begin

Startup Lessons Learned

Exact dates for all events arent yet pinned down, but heres what Im working on so far: October 28 for a TBA event in Paris, November 2-7 for a series of events in Malmo, Sweden including Øredev , and ending with a workshop at the Martti Ahtisaari Institute of Global Business and Economics at the University of Oulu. Expo SF (May.

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Join the lean startup discussion at Facebook on Thursday

Startup Lessons Learned

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? 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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