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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.

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Why vanity metrics are dangerous

Startup Lessons Learned

If you never have, you can create your own using Google Finance. If you never have, you can create your own using Google Finance. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ▼ 2009 (88) ▼ December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica.

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Case Study: Rapid iteration with hardware

Startup Lessons Learned

The first hire The first hire was critical. Hiring him was a no brainer, and he didn't disappoint. Product Launch After some financing-related delays, the products went on sale in Europe and Asia in the summer of 2008. Continuous deployment of hardware is an exciting new capability.

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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. Other companies accomplish this by hiring a large staff of content production experts - and get a very good result. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

Perhaps they’ll be able to hire someone especially skilled in the marketing skills needed to find this positioning. but few step back and really examine the underlying assumptions of startup finance. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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Lessons Learned: Refactoring yourself out of business

Startup Lessons Learned

My most important lesson in refactoring is that small changes, if applied continuously and with discipline, actually add up to huge improvements. Compounding is not a process that most people find intuitive, and thats as true in engineering as it is in finance, so it requires a lot of encouragement in the early days to stay the course.

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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

Cost and time are effectively absolutes (The Caretaker's high finance schenanigans and 20th century Physics aside). Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. Bring your questions.