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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

In an early-stage startup especially, revenue is not an important goal in and of itself. Let’s start with a simple question: why do early-stage startups want revenue? This approach is fundamentally non-scalable. If youre still very early stage, then you need to know what a true early adopter looks like.

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Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and what's changed since.

Startup Lessons Learned

This simple three-part framework underlies almost all discussions about technical design today, and it was clearly on display in the recent debates over technical debt. Worse of all, the plaintext codes we were used to sending were considered non-authoritative, since they could be pulled off a third-party network.