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Working Remotely: Is work From Home Good for Everyone?

Transformify

Nampora is based in Washington, DC area (where Neville is from), but he’s currently working from Tbilisi, Georgia. I started working remotely as a freelancer back in 2007, and then became a digital nomad in 2012, traveling to/living in over 120 cities in 50 countries since then. How does it feel to work and travel?

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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) 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. Looking forward for your future posts.

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Lean startup tools for Rails apps

www.subelsky.com

Mike Subelskys Blog Wednesday, November 11, 2009 Lean startup tools for Rails apps A few months ago I was invited to dinner with the Geeks on a Plane crew when they stopped in Washington, and had the opportunity to meet one of my heroes, Eric Ries , author of the Startup Lessons Learned blog. Email This BlogThis!

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US Economic Risks (Sept 2010): Impact on Investors & Entrepreneurs

Both Sides of the Table

Washington is in no mood to take stimulatory action – for a long time : While there was a momentary unity in the US government for bailouts & stimulus spending that were initiated in the Bush administration (many people conveniently forget this now) and continued under Obama, it is clear that this era of consensus is over.

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The cardinal sin of community management

Startup Lessons Learned

Eric, When I came to IMVU back in 2007, I had really enjoyed the actual product (the chat client) and getting to know the regulars on the forum. Compared to 2007, the chat client runs whole lot smoother (well, right before 2.0 The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. but she was never punished, and kept her mod status.

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Jack be Nimble

This is going to be BIG.

It was a sunny September morning in Washington Square Park. In a world of lean startups, we too often mistake MVP for Minimum Viable Problem instead of Minimum Viable Product. It's been very cool to be around early for Jack's successes--from watching Twitter blow up at SXSW in 2007 to being dollars number 476 and 477 swiped on Square.

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Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium

Startup Lessons Learned

First, SlideShare is a fantastic product (that I use on a regular basis) and an impressive company example of Lean Startup practices in action. Second, their story illustrates a key Lean Startup idea: proving the business in micro-scale. SlideShare, founded in 2007, started experimenting with MVPs and A/B testing this year.