Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 27, 2009

The full formula works like this: runway = cash on hand / burn rate # iterations = runway / speed of each iteration Very few successful companies ended up in the same exact business that the founders thought theyd be in (see Founders at Work for dozens of examples). Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 117

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Figuring this out takes time, and few entrepreneurs have the patience to wait it out, because the business plan does such a good job of explaining what customers are going to think. And even worse, wed cranked up the burn rate in order to be ready to handle all those millions of mainstream customers we anticipated.

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San Francisco PR Lean Early Stage 168

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 30, 2009

The passionate early adopters who flocked to the product at its launch could not sustain this outsized burn rate. Departments were built and were even metrics-driven. But there was no feedback loop to help the company find the right metrics to focus on. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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San Francisco Lean Agile Continuous Deployment 150