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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

extraneous SHIMMER reference spotted; you are dating yourself eric. but few step back and really examine the underlying assumptions of startup finance. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. We just couldnt scale, so recently we ended up downsizing the company in order to find the Product/Market fit.

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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

The time, money and quality dimensions are referred to, in the project management world, as the triple constraints. Some people refer to scope as effectiveness, Units, availability or quality. Cost and time are effectively absolutes (The Caretaker's high finance schenanigans and 20th century Physics aside).

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Myth: Entrepreneurship Will Make You Rich

Startup Lessons Learned

Take this fictional example of a Seedcamp attendee (actually a composite), which I will refer to as Hairbrush 2.0. But lots of lawyers and finance kids in New York thought they had stable jobs that would make them rich. Take this fictional example of a Seedcamp attendee (actually a composite), which I will refer to as Hairbrush 2.0.