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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

Although it costs to pay down the principal, we gain by reduced interest payments in the future. In addition, third-party services and API’s enabled us to do more with less, but at a cost: taking on the technical debt of products and teams outside our direct control. For example, how fault tolerant should it be?

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Lessons Learned: Built to learn

Startup Lessons Learned

So instead of having sales, marketing, and business development, we have a problem team implementing customer development. I have been using various forms of Agile development -- mainly XP and Scrum -- for many years, but only recently came across "customer development" which makes a whole lot of sense to me. Excellent post.

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Startup Resources

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