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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

A new employee is more likely to make a mistake than an experienced one, but everyone makes mistakes. Of course, we wouldnt have a new employee write a huge new feature on their first day - usually wed start with a simple cosmetic change or bug fix. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Software Eng.

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Join the lean startup discussion at Facebook on Thursday

Startup Lessons Learned

Priority will be given to employees of companies participating in the fbFund REV program, but I am confident that there will be room for members of the general public who want to attend. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Pivot, don't jump to a new vision Why Continuous Deployment?

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Support the Startup Founders Visa with a tweet

Startup Lessons Learned

In fact theyd cause there to be more jobs for Americans, because the companies they started would hire more employees as they grew. Recently, hes been engaged in a customer validation exercise around a new concept for a political action-oriented social network. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Lessons Learned: Don't launch

Startup Lessons Learned

I wont recount what happened next (although your can hear us recount it in audio ). They spend so much of their time trying to convince everyone around them that their idea is great and the company is doing well: employees, investors, partners, friends, family, significant others - its a long list. Thats how to "launch".

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10 years of entrepreneurship

Startup Lessons Learned

Could we have built the first college-based social network five years before Facebook ? Then I wouldnt have the chance to work with the incredible employees and mentors from whom I learned so much. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Maybe, but the thought never even entered our minds.

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The Steve Jobs method

Startup Lessons Learned

You make me think of something I've been pondering for a while but haven't been able to articulate: the realignment of company and "customer" in the age of pervasive social networks and innovation. The videos are Steve explaining the company's path forward to Next employees.

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Lessons Learned: When NOT to listen to your users; when NOT to.

Startup Lessons Learned

The site is now a sad footnote in the history of Social Networking Services. Its pretty easy to optimize our business to serve one of employees, customers or shareholders. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. How did they do it? By listening to their users. I think Drucker said it best.