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The Lean Startup SXSW 2013

Startup Lessons Learned

Once again, along with my partners at 500 Startups, we are proud to present the most substantive track at SXSW: [link] There was a running joke last year that "the Lean Startup track was the only place at SXSW you couldn't get out of the building." 1,000 startup founders, investors, and press! We're back! See you there!

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You Don’t Need To Be An Engineering Genius To Start A Billion-Dollar Company

ReadWriteStart

.” Kraus was talking about the economics of startups—the cheapness of servers, networks, and other raw ingredients of computing. So, too, is the level of competence required to engineer a product. In other words, even an engineering nobody can start a company. Software was expensive. No Problem! infrastructure].”

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It’s Time To Ship

Eric Friedman

Photo by Thomas Park on Unsplash In 2020, Marc Andreessen published a profound essay in response to the COVID-19 pandemic that became a rallying cry for startups called; It’s Time To Build. Why Shipping Is Important When Building Shipping defines software engineering in a magical way that is challenging to understand.

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One Reason Why Your Technical Recruiting Isn't Working

This is going to be BIG.

Time and time again, I hear how hard of a time startups are having recruiting, especially for software developers. When I was a startup founder, I had this same issue. The other day, I was in a board meeting and we were talking about the need for a software engineer. The team already had a lead on board.

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Why Real Learning is Outside the Building, Not Demo Day

Steve Blank

Over the last three years our Lean LaunchPad / NSF Innovation Corps classes have been teaching hundreds of entrepreneurial teams a year how to build their startups by getting out of the building and testing their hypotheses behind their business model. The next customer segment we tried was startup founders.

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Troubled media sharing startup Color Labs said to be acquired by Apple

The Next Web

We’ve heard through trusted sources that the startup was nabbed for a price that is in the ‘high double digits’, as in millions, and that the deal is ‘done’, though papers have yet to be signed. But this wouldn’t be Apple’s first time buying one of Nguyen’s startups.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Exciting Companies Lined Up For Microsoft Startup Grant Finals

ReadWriteStart

During today's roundtable, we had four Microsoft BizSpark Startup India Challenge grant finalists present. Freshdesk First, Girish Mathrubootham from Chennai, India, pitched Freshdesk , a SaaS company that provides small and medium businesses with on-demand customer support software that offers multi-channel social support.

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