Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 25, 2011

It may be hard to remember that there was a time when people in the agile software development community thought Lean Startup was incompatible with agile practices. Design + Lean Startup = Lean UX. SLLCONF 2011 is happening on May 23 in San Francisco. Like last year, we’ll have three huge keynote speakers.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

Their engineering teams didn’t have the expertise using off-the-shelf microprocessors (back then “real” computer companies designed their own instruction sets and operating systems.) They couldn’t keep up with the fast product development times that were enabled by using standard microprocessors.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2010

It is the ultimate product development get-started guide to Lean Startup. Because of the traditional publishing industrys commitment to rapid iteration, the book wont come out until Fall, 2011. It is the ultimate product development get-started guide to Lean Startup. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2010

I have: Im going to mark the occasion at SXSW Interactive in March, 2011. Id love to know what you think: The Lean Startup: innovation through experimentation 2011 will mark the one-hundredth anniversary of Frederick Winslow Taylor s " Principles of Scientific Management." We owe that movement an incalculable debt of gratitude.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2011

The finished book will come out on September 13, featuring an amazing cover designed by my IMVU co-founder Marcus Gosling and refined and tested by so many of you. It enables a company to shift directions with agility, altering plans inch by inch, minute by minute. page proofs, and mailing (!) them back to my publisher.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 26, 2012

Although we got some early traction, we were unable to prevent a bankruptcy from happening in October 2011. Keep the team small, agile and up-to-date. As Apple’s design chief Jonathan Ive said in a recent interview in the Daily Telegraph : “The quest for simplicity has to pervade every part of the process.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Clearly it'd be more accurate to say "sometime in Q1 2011." Today, brands are hiring social media specialists for customer support, crowdsourced product development, promotions and even leads generation. We're looking to choose a design put together by one of our readers as the official t-shirt for OnStartups.

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