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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

Today, the transformations are often from migrating all those rudimentary legacy systems into a technological windtunnel described by Ray Kurzweil in The Singularity is Near. Cost and time are effectively absolutes (The Caretaker's high finance schenanigans and 20th century Physics aside). Computing was a closed society.

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What is a startup?

Startup Lessons Learned

And yet, we so often loose sight of the fact that startups are not their products, their technological breakthroughs, or even their data. Even the most radical new inventions always build upon previous technology. Even the most radical new inventions always build upon previous technology.

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Myth: Entrepreneurship Will Make You Rich

Startup Lessons Learned

So why become an entrepreneur instead of developing technology in an R&D lab? But lots of lawyers and finance kids in New York thought they had stable jobs that would make them rich. So why become an entrepreneur instead of developing technology in an R&D lab? Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Lessons Learned: Where did Silicon Valley come from?

Startup Lessons Learned

Among those: plentiful financing and nerds , a culture that celebrates both failure and success, and an ethos of openness and sharing. Learn about the key players and the series of events that contributed to this dramatic and important piece of the emergence of this world renowned technology mecca.