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The cardinal sin of community management

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, September 11, 2009 The cardinal sin of community management Once you have a product launched, you will the face the joys – and the despair – of a community that grows up around it. This probably sounds illogical. After all, people rarely say they are mad because they are not being heard.

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Towards a new entrepreneurship

Startup Lessons Learned

On the whole, this is a good thing for America and for our civilization. Steve Blank has asked me to co-teach his MBA entrepreneurship class at Berkeley Haas, starting January 19, and to revamp the curriculum to make it a full introduction to the lean startup. On the whole, this is a good thing for America and for our civilization.

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Lessons Learned: Please teach kids programming, Mr. President

Startup Lessons Learned

Im not offering extensive studies or research to support this conclusion; the evidence from my peers right here in the innovation capital of America, Silicon Valley, is absolutely overwhelming. We also learned that law is code , and that leadership was needed to build thriving communities in a digital age. They are nerds. Good Post.

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A Different Kind of Entrepreneurship Conference

Startup Lessons Learned

This post was co-written by Sarah Milstein & Eric Ries, co-hosts of The Lean Startup Conference. But as the community of Lean Startup practitioners has matured, so has our event. John Goulah will show you how Etsy gets engineers on board with continuous deployment, an important technical environment that many resist.

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What would you want to tell Washington DC about startups?

Startup Lessons Learned

So heres my simple question: What do folks in Washington need to know about the global community of entrepreneurs? Its impossible to resist the urge to plug Virgin America as much as possible. The new administration has helped some of their ranks to cross over into the Federal community too. There are and we do.

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