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Watching Larry Ellison become Larry Ellison — The DNA of a Winner

Steve Blank

The choice of the SQL a way to ask questions (queries) in an easy-to-understand language. Pragmatic and Lean. Angel investor Don Lucas had his office above ours. Portability (databases had previously been shackled to the specific machines they ran on). What a gift! I’m not sure it’s true, but it’s what Larry said.

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

blog.expensify.com

If someone comes to you with Ruby on Rails experience, do you assume they are ignorant of SQL? I learned C# and.NET (along with HTML/CSS/JS/SQL/etc) because that’s what they used. I’ll put my MVC/C#/SQL Server against your LAMP any day. March 25, 2011 at 2:27 pm. FYI It’s not April yet. Matt Sherman.

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Startup Resources

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Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Part 3- Lean Cust. Steve Blank’s Lean Startup Resources. Lean Startup Circle â?? SQL database hosting from browser.Python/Javascript APIs. Lean project management. List of Angel/SuperAngel Investors for entrepreneurs.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

AgileZen – project management visually see and interact with your work Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.