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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and in 2009 he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership. I help lead the Engineering Leadership SIG at SDForum and wonder if you would be interested in speaking to our group about lean starups. hope to hear from you.

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The Steve Jobs method

Startup Lessons Learned

We might be a ways away from the reality of a Chief Engineer or Product Director role commonly in software development, but ultimately it's going to be a matter of getting the culture right so that people stick around long enough to develop not only the tactical skills, but also the honed instincts and senses. Expo SF (May.

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Lessons Learned: The hacker's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

Without requiring a lot of meetings, it changes the perspective of the team (and its leadership) from fire-fighting to prevention. Thats the ultimate task for the companys technology leadership. Our CTO is the CEO himself, but he lacks the understanding of the new software development processes and the new technologies.

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Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business)

Startup Lessons Learned

I want to especially recognize Vivek Wadhwa and Brad Feld for their leadership.) Even if men have an innate advantage at software development, the gap would have to be massive in order to explain why startup after startup has an all-male team. I want to especially recognize Vivek Wadhwa and Brad Feld for their leadership.)