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6 Strategies To Anticipate And Survive New Entrants

Startup Professionals Musings

You will be amazed to see what you can find on the Internet about competitors performance. Establish individual and team recognition events to celebrate successes. Real industry leaders, such as Google and Microsoft , will tell you that there is nothing like great competitors to push you beyond what even you thought you could achieve.

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Lessons Learned: Combining agile development with customer development

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, March 16, 2009 Combining agile development with customer development Today I read an excellent blog post that I just had to share. Jim Murphy is a long-time agile practitioner in startups. But startups sometimes have trouble applying agile successfully.

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Lessons Learned: Stevey's Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, November 6, 2008 Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile I thought Id share an interesting post from someone with a decidedly anti-agile point of view. Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile : "Google is an exceptionally disciplined company, from a software-engineering perspective.

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Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond"

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, April 4, 2010 Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Kent Beck will give the opening keynote at the Startup Lessons Learned conference on April 23. Labels: sllconf Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Kent Beck will give the opening keynote at the Startup Lessons Learned conference on April 23.

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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

As a reminder, the Dot Com bubble was a five-year period from August 1995 (the Netscape IPO ) when there was a massive wave of experiments on the then-new internet, in commerce, entertainment, nascent social media, and search. Then the cycle repeats with a new set of technologies. Every startup is in a race against time.

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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. Please register to attend this event as space will be limited. Labels: events 4comments: Simon said.

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16 Entrepreneurs Share Advice That’s The Complete Opposite of What They Learned Before Starting Their Venture

Hearpreneur

2- Be real Photo Credit: Bex Harris When I started my business in 2016, I was told repeatedly “Fake it till you make it” by many people in the events and hospitality industry who thought they were providing sound advice. Thanks to Bex Harris, On Brand Events ! #3- Thanks to Brian David Crane, Spread Great Ideas ! #2-