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The Value of Paying Down Technical Debt

OnlyOnce

Our Engineering team has a great term called Technical Debt, which is the accumulation of coding shortcuts and operational inefficiencies over the years in the name of getting product out the door faster that weighs on the company’s code base like debt weighs on a balance sheet. measure, analyze, forecast).

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What Is a Business Plan?

Up and Running

While there are common components that are found in almost every business plan, such as sales forecasts and marketing strategy, business plan formats can be very different depending on the audience and the type of business. Operations. A typical financial plan includes: Sales forecast. Balance sheet.

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How to Start a Construction Company

Up and Running

Infrastructure: also known as heavy engineering, heavy/highway, or heavy civil, and usually encompasses large-scale public works projects, highways, roads, bridges, dams, utilities, and water/wastewater systems. Some small-scale construction companies can operate out of a pickup or modified box utility truck.

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Out of the Crisis #4: Carl Liebert, crisis veteran and radical optimist

Startup Lessons Learned

13:58) Advice for companies who think it's too late to start looking for new ways to operate, including some examples from Austin, Texas. (15:55) We can't make a 5-year plan or a 10-year forecast right now, but we know there are investments we can make today that will set ourselves up for success in the future. And you're touching on.

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The Energy Revolution is (Finally) Here

Version One Ventures

So much cheaper, in fact, that mainstream financial publications are projecting that building new solar will soon be cheaper than merely operating existing coal or natural gas plants. His forecast was the most aggressive to date – and even he overestimated the 2020 cost by >2x. . 3) Innovation in Financial Engineering .

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9 Deadliest Start-up Sins

Steve Blank

Traditionally, engineering, sales, and marketing have all focused on the immovable launch date. Established companies execute business models where customers, problems, and necessary product features are all knowns; start-ups, on the other hand, need to operate in a “search” mode as they test and prove every one of their initial hypotheses.

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Out of the Crisis #7, Brian Chesky Part 1: running Airbnb in crisis mode, being multi-stakeholder, and re-founding the company

Startup Lessons Learned

One by one the markets in which you operate shut down. Brian Chesky : And also humans are not good at forecasting or creating a mental model around something that's never happened before. I'm perhaps an oddity of Silicon Valley because I'm not an engineer by training. You can't really operate. Eric Ries : Yeah.