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Minimum Viable Product: a guide

Startup Lessons Learned

First, a definition: the minimum viable product is that version of a new product which allows a team to collect the maximum amount of validated learning about customers with the least effort. Second, the definitions use of the words maximum and minimum means it is decidedly not formulaic. Definitely highlights the beauty of the web.

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Founder personalities and the “first-class man” theory of management

Startup Lessons Learned

And that narrow definition of entrepreneurship doesn’t count all of the managers inside established companies who are effectively engaged in the same process of building an internal startup (see What is a startup? for my more expansive definition). for my more expansive definition). What motivates all these entrepreneurs?

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

What does your Chief Technology Officer do all day? We lack a consistent and clear definition of the job. I figured wed bring in a professional to do the managing and scheduling-type stuff, and I could stay focused on making sure we built really awesome technology. Ive tried hard not to live up (or down?) Heres my take.

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Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

Startup Lessons Learned

I havent had to work this model under those conditions, so I cant say anything definitive. Labels: agile , continuous deployment , customer development , events , listening to customers , slides 3comments: Sean Murphy said. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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The free software hiring advantage

Startup Lessons Learned

Ignore the famous people who are busy giving lots of speeches about how technology X will change the world. Given how many startups complain bitterly about how hard it is to find qualified programmers, Im surprised more dont engage more fully with the people who make their technology stack possible. Try it, you just might like it.

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Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

Examples of this are well-known, and (in my definition) include any product that causes new customers to sign up as a necessary side-effect of existing customers normal usage: Facebook, Myspace, AIM/ICQ, Hotmail, Paypal. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Ha.

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Lessons Learned: A hierarchy of pitches

Startup Lessons Learned

Now there was nothing wrong with their analysis: anyone who invents a technology as sophisticated as The Transformers is definitely going to make a lot of money. Turns out, they were incredibly well-credentialed graduate students who had, in fact, developed some interesting new robotics technology. is this team the one to back?