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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. I am heavily indebted to earlier theorists, and highly recommend the books Lean Thinking and Lean Software Development. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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How to Get Picked as a Speaker for The Lean Startup Conference

Startup Lessons Learned

You may have to pay the writer and photographer, and perhaps you’ll spend some money on training the writer to use blogging software and social media tools that help them build a following. Maybe you’ve got technical advice for getting the most out of A/B testing on software projects. Note that this isn’t a free process.

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Lean Startup at Scale

Startup Lessons Learned

We work in prototypically four-week iterations, with quality engineers and software developers working in close collaboration. This finally bit us after a four month stint of development blew through its testing schedule by a factor of four: two scheduled weeks turned into two months before the product reached stability.

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What would you want to tell Washington DC about startups?

Startup Lessons Learned

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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Lessons Learned: Where did Silicon Valley come from?

Startup Lessons Learned

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. Just to pick one: will software patents, NDAs and trade secrets laws make it harder for people to share knowledge outside of big companies?

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The cardinal sin of community management

Startup Lessons Learned

In a history of totalitarian governments, there's one common thing. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ▼ 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. It's not all about communicating. It's all about respect.

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