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Presidential Innovation Fellows, round two

Startup Lessons Learned

Yes, there are Lean Startups even in the United States federal government. For my take on how this is possible, you can see my previous post on Lean Government here. These platform technologies will leverage advances in control systems and process engineering, big data and cloud computing, broadband communications, and cybersecurity.

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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

I now believe that the "pick two" concept is fundamentally flawed, and that lean startups can achieve all three simultaneously: quickly bring high-quality software to market at low cost. Cost and time are effectively absolutes (The Caretaker's high finance schenanigans and 20th century Physics aside). Excellent post Eric.

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How to Build a Startup Team

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Tech Cocktail Connecting, educating and amplifying the startup technology community and having fun doing it since 2006. But while you are small and lean, take advantage of everyone skills; if someone on your team is a great writer, have them take charge of your press releases and marketing content.

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Founder's Dilemmas: Equity Splits

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At Ockham Technologies, all of the founders were aware of the imminent arrival of idea-person Ken’s first child. When the remaining cofounders were about to close their first round of financing, their potential funder, Mayfield, was not willing to close until Kaleil and Tom bought Chieh out and reclaimed his equity. Older Post.

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Finding a Technical Cofounder

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Right now you could sign up for a Twitter account and search for every person in MD, DC, VA, and DE who has the words “software&# or “programmer&# or “hacker&# in their bio. In the exact words of Nike, “Just Fucking Do It!&# [link] Robby Grossman To elaborate on #1, be as technologically agnostic as possible.

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What is a startup?

Startup Lessons Learned

And yet, we so often loose sight of the fact that startups are not their products, their technological breakthroughs, or even their data. Even the most radical new inventions always build upon previous technology. I emphasize this point because it is necessary to motivate large amounts of the theory of the lean startup.

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Myth: Entrepreneurship Will Make You Rich

Startup Lessons Learned

So why become an entrepreneur instead of developing technology in an R&D lab? But lots of lawyers and finance kids in New York thought they had stable jobs that would make them rich. So why become an entrepreneur instead of developing technology in an R&D lab? The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.