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The Science of Tech Startups – Especially Lean Ones

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Several years ago, there was a lot more about “how to startup a company&# , especially around product, vision, and team. It was with this backdrop that I read The Lean Startup by Eric Ries over the weekend. Now a lot of that focus has shifted to deal making and exits.

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What’s Your Product Cadence?

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I love the product vision – it’s in an area that I’ve been working in for a while across a variety of companies and will take a new approach to a very old and persistent problem. It’s an ambitious product vision that will take a while to fully roll out. However, they are faced with two choices.

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Q&A With The Founders Of AgileZen

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Recently AgileZen has topped the leaderboard for TwtPick.in’s survey on tools and services for a lean startup. And, if you are a software developer using Lean or Agile methodologies, take a look at Rally and AgileZen. To this end, we’re focusing on improving the product to make it as intuitive as possible.

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Eric Ries’ Foreword to The Startup Community Way

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This was his sequel to The Lean Startup , which created the phrase “lean startup” and the lean startup movement. He did an outstanding job of connecting the lean startup and startup communities to complex systems. Every entrepreneur continues to iterate on their original product, and Brad is no exception.

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Sayahh’s Financial Statements For August 2011

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Now that Dick and Jane have added a CTO to SayAhh’s founding team, they’ve turned their full attention to working on their product. They also haven’t launched a product, so there is no corresponding “cost of goods sold” – the direct cost of delivering their product.

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Create Structure out of the Gate and You’ll Thank Yourself Later

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They need to raise money before building anything substantial after determining that they needed a little dough to follow the Lean Startup methodology. ASC starts building product, but as they get into the thick of it, the team realizes executing on their vision is going to be extremely hard. Heads down on product, they say.

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The Illusion of Product/Market Fit for SaaS Companies

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“We have product/market fit.” ” “We are searching for product/market fit.” ” “We are raising this financing to find product/market fit.” ” “Our customer traction demonstrates product/market fit.” ” Product/market fit.

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