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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. One that is powered by three drivers, each of which is a part of a major trend: The use of platforms enabled by open source and free software. What are the characteristics of a lean startup?

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Finding a Technical Cofounder

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Or even contribute to an open source project. This is a relatively slow method, however, depending on how quickly you can connect with someone. But such a connection can be long-lasting and meaningful. Learn to write code yourself. Then go to hacker events and developer meetups.

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How to listen to customers, and not just the loud people

Startup Lessons Learned

This was 2004, and we had never even heard of MySpace, let alone had any understanding of social networking. It required hearing customers say it over and over again for us to take a serious look, and eventually to realize that social networking was core to our business. But the early customers all compared it to MySpace.

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Web Sites and Books for Novice Programmers

Feld Thoughts

While they like sites like Stack Overflow and Github’s wiki pages on different open source projects, Nate and Natty never found a great site on the web that has comprehensive documentation on how to program. They felt the HTML/CSS book was so-so but it was enough to get them started.

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Lessons Learned: Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you?

Startup Lessons Learned

Pick a similar product that they do use, and ask them "who was the first person you know who started using [social networking, mobile phones, plasma TV, instant messaging.]? Waves of technology platforms The lean startup Customer Development Engineering Greasemonkey compiler Great open source scalability tools from Danga Ideas.

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Bridging the Gap: How Semantic Web can move into the mainstream through SXSW

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One promising direction involves leveraging established wiki techniques crowdsource raw data, in a way that supports collaboration over the structure and schema of the data as well as its values and instances. The web has gone social and is rapidly going semantic. 4) social network anaysis enabled by Annotations and linked data.

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RWW Recommends: The Startup Toolkit

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You can certainly find open-source alternatives for less, but while other tools can challenge BaseCamps functionality, they cant touch its UI. List Yours, Find Others' on This Wiki. startup tools wiki. social media. social networks. social networking. Cormac Foster. and tagged with.

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