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Lessons Learned: The hacker's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, December 7, 2008 The hackers lament One of the thrilling parts of working and writing in Silicon Valley is the incredible variety of people Ive had the chance to meet. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. I am basically a one-man shop.

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Lessons Learned: Don't launch

Startup Lessons Learned

In fact, we often felt frustrated when new startups with a fraction of our success got terrific write-ups in Silicon Valley-centric venues. And, more often than not, wed watch those companies flame out and die while we continued to grow steadily every month. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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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 ? And then, at my first Silicon Valley startup , I watched friends get laid off in successive waves as it started to fail. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. No business model, either.