Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 28, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, December 28, 2009 Continuous deployment for mission-critical applications Having evangelized the concept of continuous deployment for the past few years, Ive come into contact with almost every conceivable question, objection, or concern that people have about it. The most common reaction I get is something like, "that sounds great - for your business - but that could never work for my application.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 30, 2009

No posts until January. Time off for the holidays, out hiking at the ranch and getting ready for Stanford (E-145 and MS&E 178/278) and Berkeley (MBA 295) classes.

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Rembrandt Communications

DECEMBER 31, 2009

We are starting 2010 in a challenging, economic environment. But it’s not the time to give up and stop pursuing your career goals and dream lifestyle. Instead, use this negativity as a driving force to promote yourself and make things better for you and your family in the future. “Companies always need people who know how [.].

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 29, 2009

Wibiya's toolbar gets a massive upgrade, goes public. Initially Wibiya launched with a small but well designed selection of built in “apps” into its toolbar including recent posts, sharing options, Facebook fan page and Twitter functionality. Today, after months of work and partnership negotiations, Wibiya is available to the public.

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Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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Tim Keane

DECEMBER 30, 2009

'Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. Home. Archives. Profile. Subscribe. « Starting Startups | Main. | Power of Angel Investing in Milwaukee » December 30, 2009. How To Change The World. Top Ten Ways To Change The World. (from a new social entrepreneurship Honors Symposium, “How To Change The World,” Fall, 2009 at Marquette University).

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 30, 2009

In past insights, we explored the need for a tangible goal and strategies that are measurable as steps toward achievement of the goal. This insight calls to account tactics to accompany each strategy, and even suggests a number for each. . Tactics support strategies and allow your individual managers and departments to contribute to strategies in measurable ways that are more short term and procedural than are the strategies they support.

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A Crowded Space

DECEMBER 28, 2009

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entrepreMusings

JANUARY 1, 2010

Last night, December 31, 2009, we had a blue moon. Most years have 12 full moons but every 2 to 3 years we have an extra full moon and it’s called a blue moon. We saw it coming back from the airport after a really nice visit with my cousin and her family. On the way out, after getting up at 3:30 a.m. to make a flight that was 3 hours delayed, we ended up being almost 7 hours late getting to our final destination because of an issue we had leaving Austin having to do with de-icing our pl

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Spencer Fry

DECEMBER 30, 2009

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Babbling VC

DECEMBER 31, 2009

It's funny how much time people actually can spend categorizing things. At the same time, I believe this discussion is relevant from an entrepreneur's standpoint as you want to know whom you are dealing with. Brad has an interesting post about what defines a business angel. He's also bringing up the term "Super Angel" which I don't believe he's coined but I am hearing ever more.

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