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Pragmatism with Flavor

TechEmpower

Does it help our clients sell more widgets or deliver with fewer headaches? Besides, more development time means the client can be more agile with functionality and has a greater potential for success. We've learned to think about how this really fits with the business needs of our clients. Not to downplay developer happiness.

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StartupRoar.com – A Source Of Aggregated, Curated Entrepreneurial Content

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Fear of Failure and Lack of Speed In a Large Corporation

Steve Blank

I just spent a day working with Bob, the Chief Innovation Officer of a very smart large company I’ll call Acme Widgets. More agile competitors are starting to eat into our business. Bob summarized Acme’s impediments to innovation. “At At our company we have a culture that fears failure. How can we restart our innovation culture?”.

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Andrew Chen: Growing renewable audiences

Startup Lessons Learned

vs. sustainable: Compare this to the renewable strategies, like viral marketing, SEO, widgets, and ads, which can scale into 10s of millions of users but are primarily centered around tough, non-user centric work. Problem is, you inevitably become yesterday’s old news. Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets.

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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. One person making a mistake may be a deranged lone wolf, but systematic mistakes are the result of systemic problems. Expo SF (May.

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Video update on the Startup Visa Act

Startup Lessons Learned

(<30 sec) Write your local newspaper & tell them you support the Startup Visa Act Call your senators & let them know you support Startup Visa legislation Add the Startup Visa Widget to your blog or website Follow the #startupvisa hash tag on Twitter and voice your support Contribute to Startup Visa so we can spread the word!

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Startup Visa update

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.