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Why Real Learning is Outside the Building, Not Demo Day

Steve Blank

While our teams have mentors, socialize a lot and give great demos, the goal of our class final presentations is “ Lessons Learned ” – about product/market fit, pricing, acquisition/activation costs, pricing, partners, etc. We had a killer team and all the right skillsets.

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Replay launches out of beta – record and replay web applications to fix bugs faster!

Version One Ventures

Knowing this problem firsthand (even if not in my day-to-day work), I immediately fell in love with Replay’s time-travel debugger demo when I first met the team in July 2020. The more “stuck” developers are in fixing bugs, the more printf statements they add in hopes to “see” the problem… and as you can imagine, it can get quite messy. .

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Awesome Austin Tech Events, May 8–15

Austin Startup

Some of the most interesting events in Austin for the week of May 8 through May 14 are as follows: Mon, May 8 thru Thurs, May 11: OSCON OSCON brings the software engineering and developer community together to explore what’s new and useful in open source languages, tools, and techniques. At Capital Factory at 5:45 pm.

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Boston’s WebInno Is Now BIG

Genuine VC

Now Boston’s largest regular tech conference, every few months it draws hundreds of attendees from the entrepreneurial ecosystem – including founders, software engineers, startup executives, and investors.

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Case Study: Lean UX at work

Startup Lessons Learned

Demos have become our design reviews.” The most effective way we’ve found to mitigate this is by holding live, weekly demos of working (unfinished) code to which these business owners are invited. Given that we push code live every two weeks, these demos have become our design reviews.

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SuperMac War Story 10: The Video Spigot « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

But Apple had planned to announce and demo QuickTime without a way to get video into the Mac. The Cinepak codec was written by the engineer who would become my cofounder at Rocket Science Games.) Up until that moment Quicktime had been an abstract software concept to me. We must have made them play the demo twenty times.

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Mentoring the mentors: Advice and inspiration for startup mentors

siliconflorist.com

I saw David at the recent Microsoft Accelerator Demo Day and was reminded to go back and reread both of these posts. Senior Systems Engineer. Front-End Engineer. Distributed Systems Software Engineer. Platform Software Developer. Software Cloud Engineer III. Software Cloud Project Manager.