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Beyond the garage

Startup Lessons Learned

It may be hard to remember that there was a time when people in the agile software development community thought Lean Startup was incompatible with agile practices. Yes, you really can use continuous deployment – even in an SEC regulated environment. Design + Lean Startup = Lean UX. We’re just getting started.

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Building a new startup hub

Startup Lessons Learned

Ive written a little bit about the origins of Silicon Valley because I think its important for us to understand how we got here in order to make sure we preserve what is best about our community. The companies I spoke to all agreed that the community there was extremely supportive, especially in the critical ulta-early-stage.

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New conference website, speakers, agenda

Startup Lessons Learned

Doesnt the communication overhead of a large team lead to chaos of overlapping experiments and continuously-deployed bugs?" "If If you just throw a minimum viable product out the door to see what sticks, wont that necessarily be ugly and badly designed? Is design important to lean startups? What does viable mean, anyway?"

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A real Customer Advisory Board

Startup Lessons Learned

And, as you can see in my previous post on “ The cardinal sin of community management &# the feedback could be all over the map. But we had some super-active customers who would act as editors, collecting feedback from all over the community and synthesizing it into a report of the top issues. It was absolutely worth it.

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Datablindness

Startup Lessons Learned

It was pretty ugly, the marketing and design sucked, and I was embarrassed by it. Now that I put on events with official hosts and sponsors, my experience is different. A similar kind of datablindness happened in the US intelligence community in the decades following the launch of photoreconnaissance satellites.

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Lessons Learned: Product development leverage

Startup Lessons Learned

Most importantly, there is almost no niche or trend that is unserved by this community. When you participate in an open community like these you take advantage of tremendous amounts of effort. Even as "just a user" you make the community better by adding momentum. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Lessons Learned: Please teach kids programming, Mr. President

Startup Lessons Learned

We also learned that law is code , and that leadership was needed to build thriving communities in a digital age. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ▼ 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. Expo (and a call for he.