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8 Ways The Maker Movement Turns Ideas Into Businesses

Startup Professionals Musings

This new culture builds on hobbyist technologies, extends the open-source inventory of hardware and software, and bridges the gap into real business solutions with other advantages, as follows: Shortens the time and cost from idea to prototype. There are already more than 2000 hackerspaces worldwide, as listed on the Hackerspace Wiki.

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Lessons Learned: Product development leverage

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, April 26, 2009 Product development leverage Leverage has once again become a dirty word in the world of finance, and rightly so. But I want to talk about a different kind of leverage, the kind that you can get in product development. Its a key lean startup concept.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. I am heavily indebted to earlier theorists, and highly recommend the books Lean Thinking and Lean Software Development. (So The lean startup is an application of Lean Thinking.

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

If not, whos going to insist we switch to free and open source software? Labels: product development 15comments: mukund said. For example, how are you going to explain that component drive architecture like.NET isn't going to work for cross platform open open source business models?

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Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

Startup Lessons Learned

In a startup, both the problem and solution are unknown, and the key to success is building an integrated team that includes product development in the feedback loop with customers. 2008 09 06 Eric Ries Haas Columbia Customer Development Engineering View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. Bring your questions.

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Lessons Learned: Just-In-Time Scalability

Startup Lessons Learned

Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you? Waves of technology platforms The lean startup Customer Development Engineering Greasemonkey compiler Great open source scalability tools from Danga Ideas. Seth Godin: How often should you publish? April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

Sometimes we have the attitude that the Product Development team is the one responsible for Activation and Retention (hey, a great product would do that naturally) or that the Marketing team is responsible for Revenue and Referral (hey, go get me some money or free customers already). Seth Godin: How often should you publish?