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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, July 29, 2009 Embrace technical debt Financial debt plays an important and positive role in our economy under normal conditions. Technical debt works the same way, and has the same perils. I won’t pretend that there aren’t teams that take on technical debt for bad reasons.

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The Endless Frontier: U.S. Science and National Industrial Policy (part 1)

Steve Blank

Post WWII the responsibility for investing in research split between agencies focused on weapons development and space exploration (being completely customer-driven) and other agencies charted to fund basic and applied research in science and medicine (being driven by peer-review.). Department of Research and Development.

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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. So how can I help the engineering manager in pain?

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Thank you

Startup Lessons Learned

And a special thanks is due to all of our presenters, panelists, and mentors. Although many of the non-technical folks in the room didnt understand what was happening in the moment, plenty of hackers were on high alert. If thats true, its primarily due to your hard work, building companies and testing new ideas. We all owe you.

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The new startup arms race (for Huffington Post)

Startup Lessons Learned

Part of this is due to their determination to overtake us, but part is due to structural changes in the nature of entrepreneurship. Like other industries -- from publishing to automobiles -- entrepreneurship is in the process of being disrupted by globalization. But today, it is getting harder and harder to maintain.

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Lessons Learned: Continuous deployment and continuous learning

Startup Lessons Learned

Code reviews and pairing Great practices. They’ll increase code quality, prevent defects and educate your developers. You cant make these global efficiency improvements until you get clear about the goal of your development process. It would be hard to argue against this product development strategy, in general.

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Lessons Learned: Please teach kids programming, Mr. President

Startup Lessons Learned

That data is completely consonant with the people I know who are successful technologists today, and similar patterns are documented in each recent wave of technology innovation. There would be no Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, or countless other job-creating tech companies today if early computers required corporate authorization to use.