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Hands-on Lessons for Advanced Topics in Entrepreneurship

Startup Lessons Learned

The site visits include stops at Square (the payments startup founded by Twitter co-creator Jack Dorsey), WeWork Soma (an amazing co-working space) and Pivotal Labs (leaders in Lean and Agile consulting), along with one more super-interesting location we’ll announce shortly. Thus we reduce the risk of deployments.

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Fear is the mind-killer

Startup Lessons Learned

I spent some time with his company before the conference and discussed ways to get started with continuous deployment , including my experience introducing it at IMVU. Moreover, approaching the problem from the direction that I had intuitively is a recipe for never reaching a point where continuous deployment is feasible.

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Why vanity metrics are dangerous

Startup Lessons Learned

If you never have, you can create your own using Google Finance. If you never have, you can create your own using Google Finance. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ▼ 2009 (88) ▼ December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica.

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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

When I first encountered agile software techniques, in the form of extreme programming , I thought I had found the answer. I explained it to people this way: agile lets you make the trade-offs visible to whole company, so that they can make informed choices. Even worse, agile wasnt really helping me ship higher quality software.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

Go on an agile diet quickly. With a product development team that is not shipping, any agile methodology will surface major problems quickly. Labels: agile , customer development 15comments: Scott Shapiro said. but few step back and really examine the underlying assumptions of startup finance. Great post! Expo SF (May.

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Lessons Learned: Refactoring yourself out of business

Startup Lessons Learned

My most important lesson in refactoring is that small changes, if applied continuously and with discipline, actually add up to huge improvements. Compounding is not a process that most people find intuitive, and thats as true in engineering as it is in finance, so it requires a lot of encouragement in the early days to stay the course.

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Lessons Learned: Product development leverage

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, April 26, 2009 Product development leverage Leverage has once again become a dirty word in the world of finance, and rightly so. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. But I want to talk about a different kind of leverage, the kind that you can get in product development.