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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. The lean startup is an application of Lean Thinking. Expo SF (May.

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Working with Developers

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Time Wasters - Don''t talk too much. If your developers have a better machine, screen, internet connection, or chair at home than they do in the office, then there’s a problem. As compared to the cost of a developer, these are relatively inexpensive items. I.e., they need a developer more than they need a CTO.

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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) Although Catalyst folded with the dot-com crash, Ries continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com, leading efforts in agile software development and user-generated content.

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Lessons Learned: Just-In-Time Scalability

Startup Lessons Learned

We wanted an agile approach that would allow us to build our software architecture as we needed it, without downtime, but also without large amounts of up-front cost. After all, the worst kind of waste in software development is code to support a use case that never materializes. Expo SF (May.

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Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. Thank you very much for the video. Ive attempted to embed the relevant slides below. Expo SF (May.

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On deployment

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 2, 2008 On deployment My favorite question to ask a software development team is "how do you do a release." Certainly no faster than the time it takes to release. The mechanical steps, the culture of how its done, how they evaluate success, how they cope with failure.

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Bad returns be damned: Venture capital fundraising jumps 31 percent in U.S

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VIDEO GAMES. Software Developer. Senior Software Engineer - Web-based Applications. at Tableau Software. Front-end UI Software Engineer. Voted “Next Tech Titan” at the 2012 GeekWire Startup Awards, Tableau Software is on a huge growth trajectory. E-COMMERCE. AMAZON WEB SERVICES. WINDOWS PHONE.