Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 21, 2010

It also causes them to miss the numerous other kinds of startups that appear in less-glamorous settings: inside enterprises, non-profits, and even governments. A startup is a human institution designed to deliver a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty. Wrong again. Wrong again.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Every bit as true for government as for enterprise - and even the two guys in a garage. A lot of conversation was about what "the federal government" should do. But its all too easy to lose sight of the fact that any government, even one as large as the US, is made up entirely of people. Federal government should do nothing.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Im writing this post from an airplane headed to Washington DC, where Ill be presenting at the Government 2.0 Im especially curious to gauge the reaction of the civilian and military representatives of our government. Ive been in a few government-themed meetings recently, so I know some of the standard answers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2010

On the other extreme, modern web-based applications face almost no technical risk, and are governed by high market uncertainty. Slow-moving cycles, like drug discovery or new automobile models, govern the slow part of the axis. Continuous deployment of hardware is an exciting new capability. It turned out we indeed could.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 16, 2013

As Shutterstock has grown, there are a few key elements to our continued development speed: Small, autonomous teams: The more a team can do on their own, the faster they can go. Continuous deployment: A key component of speed is to keep pushing out work. But that doesn’t mean that we don’t take these ideas seriously.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

To an early observer, it would have seemed obvious that Route 128 had all the advantages: a head start, more government and military funding, and far more established companies. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Learning is better than optimization (the local ma. for Harvard Business Revie.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2008

Some products, like Habbo Hotel or World of Warcraft, employ professional artists and designers to create compelling virtual goods that players want to buy. The government doesnt assign each clothing brand its own level of benefit. WoW designers control the size of the assets, thus control the performance of the game.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

or their privileging of only certain designers featured in Showcase and promos. I can't do anything for the hurt you experienced in the past, other than to apologize on behalf of all platform designers out there. I cannot sink any more money into a program that is still having community problems. No gain without pain.

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