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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. Great post!

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How to Use Frugal Innovation to Grow Your Startup

ReadWriteStart

As the global economic situation deteriorates amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine and soaring energy costs, many aspiring entrepreneurs might be tempted to give up and wait for better days. However, a crisis can also be a golden opportunity to launch a new product or service, as long as the startup at the origin applies specific methods.

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Old Entrepreneurs Perform Better Than Their Young Counterparts?

Mike Michalowicz

Small Business Association (SBA) and AARP announced they are teaming up to train entrepreneurs over the age of 50 who want to start a business. Old entrepreneurs are in fact the winners. She was one of the greatest entrepreneurs of all time, and controlled billions of dollars. Old Entrepreneurs Rule. Us old(er) guys?

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16 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Side Hustles

Hearpreneur

We asked entrepreneurs and business owners what their side hustles are and here are the responses. #1- My background comes from owning my own photography business when I became an entrepreneur back in 2008. I love helping creative entrepreneurs get found online. They mainly sprout out of a simple idea or hobbies.

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The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development

Startup Lessons Learned

Instead of that naive approach, I wish Id had a book like this one, to help me figure out how to get started with customer development step-by-step. Brant and Patrick undertook a difficult challenge: to provide a generally accessible introduction to Customer Development, without diluting its impact or dumbing-down its principles.

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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

Most entrepreneurs today don’t remember the Dot-Com bubble of 1995 or the Dot-Com crash that followed in 2000. And if their initial guesses were wrong, they needed a process that would permit them to change early on in the product development process when the cost of changes was small – the famed “pivot”. And it may work.

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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. October 20, 2008 9:34 PM Nivi said. But, it is so worth it.