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Lean Startup at Scale

Startup Lessons Learned

One good example is the way in which we''ve adjusted the length of different phases of our agile sprints. We don''t follow a set agile methodology, but rather follow a more home-grown, minimal version of various approaches. Continuous deployment: A key component of speed is to keep pushing out work.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. So far, I have found "lean startup" works better with the entrepreneurs Ive talked to than "agile startup" or even "extreme startup.") Of course, many startups are capital efficient and generally frugal.

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What would you want to tell Washington DC about startups?

Startup Lessons Learned

Im writing this post from an airplane headed to Washington DC, where Ill be presenting at the Government 2.0 Im especially curious to gauge the reaction of the civilian and military representatives of our government. Ive been in a few government-themed meetings recently, so I know some of the standard answers.

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Lean Startup fbFund wrap-up

Startup Lessons Learned

If your practice is not designed to cope with uncertainty, it has no place in a startup - even if your startup is located in government or enterprise. ericries #leanstartup Another new idea in the section on continuous deployment and the cluster immune system. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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A real Customer Advisory Board

Startup Lessons Learned

What we call “community management&# is actually governance. It is our obligation to govern well, but – as history has repeatedly shown – this is incredibly hard. What we call “community management&# is actually governance. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Expo SF (May.

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Datablindness

Startup Lessons Learned

It was pretty ugly, the marketing and design sucked, and I was embarrassed by it. "Spy satellites produced far more raw information than the government's battalion of overworked analysts could handle. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Yet it had one huge advantage. Expo SF (May.

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The Lean Entrepreneur is here

Startup Lessons Learned

Struggling to explain the successes and failures of those companies, I discussed principles like continuous deployment, customer development, and a hyper-accelerated form of agile. Therefore, we needed a new management toolkit designed explicitly for iteration, scientific learning, and rapid experimentation.

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