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The Lean Startup at Agile Vancouver April 21st

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, March 25, 2009 The Lean Startup at Agile Vancouver April 21st A surprising number of respondents in the latest Lessons Learned survey hail from one of the flourishing startup hubs in Canada. Combining agile development with customer developm. And when did there get to be 3000 of you?

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The Customer Development Manifesto: Reasons for the Revolution.

Steve Blank

The first hint lies in its name; this is a product development model, not a marketing model, not a sales hiring model, not a customer acquisition model, not even a financing model (and we’ll also find that in most cases it’s even a poor model to use to develop a product.) So what’s wrong the product development model? Where Are the Customers?

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[Interview] Robert Tallack, CEO of ConversionPoint Technologies, Inc.

YoungUpstarts

First, hire slow, but fire fast. His first effort came when he co-founded a martial arts school, Tallack Martial Arts, something which was natural to him, given that his father was a pioneer in the martial arts industry in Canada. I’ve learned to be tough, agile and durable. Two of his most important guiding principles?

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Join the Lean Startup discussion at Web 2.0 Expo for free

Startup Lessons Learned

I am wondering if your event will be streamed live (or at least you will blog about it) as I will not be able this summer to visit the US (i am currently in Canada). Although Im not a developer, I am captivated by the lean and agile start-up model that you write about. Combining agile development with customer developm.

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@altgate » Blog Archive » Outsourcing For Startups

Altgate

PlentyOfFish has 11 million registered users, is the #1 dating site in the UK and Canada and the #2 in the US by audience share. World class In-house UX is one of the most challenging hires you’ll make. The key is to get the outsourced team locked in for the long term and to build your own lean/agile culture. Branding/Copy.

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Tapping The Cloud To Grow Your Business

YoungUpstarts

This allows them to be agile in meeting changes in the business environment or in internal changes. We also perform security audits and use industry-standard encryption technology – going as far as to perform extensive background checks on staff before hiring. He currently manages teams in India, Canada, Singapore and the UK.

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Sneak preview, KISSmetrics (and more)

Startup Lessons Learned

Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets. Learning is better than optimization (the local ma.