Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and in 2009 he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership. Thanks to Suns amazing PR blitz, there was tremendous demand for experts on Java, and I did my best to convince people that I was one of that mythical breed.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

Im confident of that last statement, because I made the same mistake again a few years later, when I won an award in 2007. We go to mixers, buy fancy offices, focus on PR, and try to one-up each other. Instead, lets focus on building companies that matter , on creating real value for customers, and learning.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

I agree that listening and communicating is a key to success, but customer development can only do so much. In fact, one of your own mods, told another customer to literally go f themselves. Compared to 2007, the chat client runs whole lot smoother (well, right before 2.0 Eric September 13, 2009 11:32 AM Joel Andren said.

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