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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

I would add -- think of your development and running your business like a PM/Developer uses Agile or Scrum in software development. For example, one angel investor reportedly invested in several hundred social networking ventures employing this philosophy. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. No more, no less.

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Sprint Like An Egyptian: A Tech Entrepreneurship Revolution in Alexandria

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” Then we needed a permit to go unescorted, or something. ”But my credentials are for a television network. English has become the lingua franca for doing business, while the technical jargon is as familiar (or cryptic) in Alexandria as in Mountain View: Scrum, sprints, Git, Cassandra, Hadoop. . ”Why?

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

For example, I’ve talked often about our belief that an instant messaging add-on product would allow IMVU to take advantage of a network effects strategy. When we became a standalone network, it didn't matter how easy it was to add new networks, since we never did. This happened quite often in the early days of IMVU.