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Lessons Learned: A hierarchy of pitches

Startup Lessons Learned

Their idea was to build a next-generation autonomous robot, that could be used by defense and security agencies around the world. can the team bring the product to market? Most important slide: about the founders In a pitch meeting, try to spend as much time as possible talking about the key questions for your pitch.

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Why Continuous Deployment?

Startup Lessons Learned

As a consumer internet company with millions of customers, it may seem to have little relevancy for an enterprise software company with only a handful of potential customers, or a computer security company whose customers demand a rigorous audit before accepting a new release. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

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John Doerr's 10 lean startup tips

Startup Lessons Learned

All cash in most secure possible instruments. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Minimum Viable Product: a guide

Startup Lessons Learned

Refreshing to finally see lean and agile thinking emerge in product/business-floors and not only in technology. Critical also, as the lean company/start-up can not be lean by just using lean principles in IT and not in Product Development/Management - a common misinterpretation of the Toyota Production System.

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Lessons Learned: The ABCDEF's of conducting a technical interview

Startup Lessons Learned

The technical interview is at the heart of these challenges when building a product development team, and so I thought it deserved an entire post on its own. I remember once being asked in a Microsoft group interview (and dinner) about the ActiveX security model. I remember answering "What security model?"

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Lessons Learned: Where did Silicon Valley come from?

Startup Lessons Learned

In true startup form, the world was forever changed when the CIA and the National Security Agency acted as venture capitalists for this first wave of entrepreneurship. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

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Lessons Learned: Five Whys

Startup Lessons Learned

Most of this was code that not scalable, not secure, and not particularly extensible. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.