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Lessons Learned: The product manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

But I have a special sympathy for the "product manager" in a startup that is bringing a new product to a new market, and doing their work in large batches. I met one recently that is working on a really innovative product, and the stories I heard from their development team made me want to cringe. Expo SF (May. . Expo SF (May.

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Lessons Learned: What is customer development?

Startup Lessons Learned

This theory has become so influential that I have called it one of the three pillars of the lean startup - every bit as important as the changes in technology or the advent of agile development. You can learn about customer development, and quite a bit more, in Steves book The Four Steps to the Epiphany. Heres the catch.

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Lessons Learned: The four kinds of work, and how to get them done.

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, November 17, 2008 The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: part one Ive written before about some of the advantages startups have when they are very small, like the benefits of having a pathetically small number of customers. A "startup within the startup" feeling is a good thing.

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How To Create a Web App

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In part one, How To Bootstrap Your Startup , we outlined the process of bootstrapping your company into existence. These serve to ensure that everyone who ends up on the development team knows what the system is for. More than one person can review it, but only one person can author. Write them as a chronological story.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

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oz burgers as fast as possible, and commit the rest of your career to an endless series of McDonalds menus. You become so steeped in tools and techniques that have absolutely no relevance outside of.NET that you are actually less valuable to a startup than had you just taken a long nap. But what they do is very, very rarely startups.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

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Save the rest for later. No need to even tell people about the rest unless theyre really really interested. They log in to translate the documents, one at a time, marking each finished when done, which sends the file back to the company for review.” Decline bids from providers without many great reviews.