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Lessons Learned: Achieving a failure

Startup Lessons Learned

Without conscious process design, product development teams turn lines of code written into momentum in a certain direction. This is why agility is such a prized quality in product development. As far as I know, there are no products that are immune from the technology life cycle adoption curve.

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The new startup arms race (for Huffington Post)

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Luckily for the rest of us, he was able to find his path to a green card, and now employs 24 Americans in West Lafayette, Indiana. For example, over 25% of the technology companies founded between 1995-2005 had a key immigrant founder. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Lessons Learned: The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time

Startup Lessons Learned

For example, by making this button green, did more people click on it? That green button was part of a customer flow, a series of actions you want customers to complete for some business reason. I had the opportunity to pioneer this approach to funnel analysis at IMVU, where it became a core part of our customer development process.

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

So what does CTO mean, besides just "technical founder who really cant manage anyone?" Labels: product development 15comments: mukund said. The green arm is the best. ;) October 2, 2008 10:27 PM Andrew Badera said. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Support the Startup Founders Visa with a tweet

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, September 19, 2009 Support the Startup Founders Visa with a tweet Its been an exhilarating first day here in Washington DC for the Geeks on a Plane tour. We can remedy it by creating a special visa for startup founders. I think the benefits are a no-brainer. 2gov.org will take care of the rest.

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The Steve Jobs method

Startup Lessons Learned

Having so few products means Apple can dedicate enormous resources to each project once it gets the green light. For startups that are tempted to mimic this behavior, I suggest reading the great account of the early Apple in Founders at Work.) It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. Great post Eric.

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Lessons Learned: Continuous integration step-by-step

Startup Lessons Learned

Generally, if all tests pass, its happy (a green build) and if any tests fail, it will notify you by email. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. Amazon PostRank