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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

Like a financial debt, the technical debt incurs interest payments, which come in the form of the extra effort that we have to do in future development because of the quick and dirty design choice. Startups especially can benefit by using technical debt to experiment, invest in process, and increase their product development leverage.

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Vision versus Hallucination – Founders and Pivots

Steve Blank

He turned his PhD thesis into a killer product, got it funded and now was CEO of a company of 30. It was great to watch him embrace the spirit and practice of customer development. We’re building the wrong product!” And the rule was we weren’t changing anything about the product architecture until Ben and I agreed.

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28 Entrepreneurs Reveal the Organization, Communities or Associations they Belong to That Help Support Their Business

Hearpreneur

I am a lifetime member of the National Association of Business Executives (NABE), and their resources greatly help me in managing both personal and professional development. I also support various non-profit organizations such as the Small Business Development Center (SBDC). Thanks to Kreisel Jaquish, Hello Vein !

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The curse of prevention

Startup Lessons Learned

It’s important to invest in good architecture so that your website will scale once customers arrive. If you make that investment, and then customers arrive, and the site stays up, most companies will reward the people who built the architecture and, thus, prevented the scaling problems. Why do they harbor that paranoia?

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Talk to your target customer in 4 easy steps

andrewchenblog.com

If you haven’t finished developing your product yet, that’s no excuse! In fact, in many ways talking to your customer and understanding them great detail is often much more powerful before you even go through the product development process. Choice architecture is among the most complex worlds one could study.