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The Lean Startup at SXSW 2012

Startup Lessons Learned

Lean Startup ideas will be a big part of the festival this year. Last year SXSW invited me to produce an official Lean Startup track for the conference, which I did in partnership with 500 Startups. And so I've once again partnered with 500 Startups in an effort to bring you the most comprehensive Lean Startup event ever.

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

Platform selection and technical design - if your business strategy is to create a low-burn, highly iterative lean startup, youd better be using foundational tools that make that easy rather than hard. But I think in a lean startup, the development methodology is too important to be considered "just management." I dont think so.

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SXSW Update

Startup Lessons Learned

Saturday March 10 Dave McClure and I will kick off the official Lean Startup track at the Hilton. 11am: Do you host or run a Lean Startup community event, such as a Lean Startup Meetup? 7pm: I'll be doing a brief Q&A with Jeff Gothelf at the DeLUX Lean UX event at Adaptive Path.

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7 Things Remarkably Happy People Do Often #blindpost

Jeff Hilimire

To come up with my list, I thought about the remarkably happy people in my life – people like Ann, Jewel, Chad, Stanley, Katie, Adam, John, and Joe – and thought about the things I observe them doing on a daily basis. They listen, they lean in, and they really care. Thanks for inspiration! They use big, expressive words.

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Is Your Next Startup an Ultralight?

Up and Running

Funny how the labels work: The lean startup tends to be called that because of a trendy and fast strategy, a lot of flexibility, and a high-powered startup mentality. Image credit: Chad Zemendorf/The Chronicle. Emphasize the phrase “high-powered.&# But ultralight startups? I like the image it conjures.

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Lessons Learned: Continuous deployment and continuous learning

Startup Lessons Learned

Luckily, Chad Austin has recently weighed in with an excellent piece called 10 Pitfalls of Dirty Code. So that you can learn from our mistakes, Chad has helpfully listed ten reasons why you want to manage this dirty-code (sometimes called "technical debt") problem proactively. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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Burnout « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Reply The Chad , on July 23, 2009 at 2:45 pm Said: As a young professional looking towards the future and trying to cut my own path, I love hearing about how others built up a stable work-life. Reply LW , on August 6, 2009 at 2:00 am Said: Agreed with The Chad. The Chad poses a very good point.