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Hands-on Lessons for Advanced Topics in Entrepreneurship

Startup Lessons Learned

Starting on the evening of December 11 and running through December 13—for VIP pass holders only—we’re partnering with UP Global’s Startup Weekend to offer a two-day Lean Startup immersion program , specially designed to teach you how to put Lean Startup theory directly into practice. Thus we reduce the risk of deployments.

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A new field guide for entrepreneurs of all stripes

Startup Lessons Learned

Brant and Patrick have set out to write and design a book that not only describes practical steps for implementing Lean Startup principles in your innovative endeavors – but to inspire your creativity as well by sharing diverse examples of what works, and more importantly, what often doesn’t work. It will be published by Wiley this fall.

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Why vanity metrics are dangerous

Startup Lessons Learned

If you never have, you can create your own using Google Finance. All very reasonable, well designed, well argued. If you never have, you can create your own using Google Finance. All very reasonable, well designed, well argued. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Lessons Learned: Product development leverage

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, April 26, 2009 Product development leverage Leverage has once again become a dirty word in the world of finance, and rightly so. Making UGC work requires good tools, open standards, and proper incentive design. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

Their product development team is hard at work on a next-generation product platform, which is designed to offer a new suite of products – but this effort is months behind schedule. And yet their numbers continue to grow, month after month. but few step back and really examine the underlying assumptions of startup finance.

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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

Most of the other processs changes - mandatory design reviews (prelimninary, critical, etc), - documenting all our procedures, and so on - were to support those two factors. It might be more precise to categorize them of two kinds of flaws: flaws in implementation, and flaws in design. Im keen on the two-kinds-of-bugs thing.

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Fear is the mind-killer

Startup Lessons Learned

I spent some time with his company before the conference and discussed ways to get started with continuous deployment , including my experience introducing it at IMVU. Moreover, approaching the problem from the direction that I had intuitively is a recipe for never reaching a point where continuous deployment is feasible.