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Lessons Learned: Lean hiring tips

Startup Lessons Learned

One, which is described in great detail in the Mythical Man-Month (in finding that link, I discovered that today is coincidentally the exact 11th anniversary of my first purchasing that book: Jan 19, 1998), is that as you add people to a team or project, there is an increase in communications overhead that makes everyone slightly less productive.

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Datablindness

Startup Lessons Learned

In May of 1998, India detonated several nuclear weapons at a test site near New Delhi. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ▼ 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. Great post and great ideas.

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The Lean Entrepreneur is here

Startup Lessons Learned

As we head into 2013, it's a good time to reflect on how far the Lean Startup movement has come: When I first started blogging in August of 2008, I had no idea what to expect. Startup blogging was hardly "cool" back then. There's even a classic Wizard of Oz minimum viable product that dates back to 1998!

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