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Thank you

Startup Lessons Learned

Entrepreneurship is the life-blood of our global civilization. Entrepreneurship is the life-blood of our global civilization. Although many of the non-technical folks in the room didnt understand what was happening in the moment, plenty of hackers were on high alert. Together, I believe we are changing the face of entrepreneurship.

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New conference website, speakers, agenda

Startup Lessons Learned

The Lean Startup movement is already global ( see the map ). Thats as it should be, as the new era of entrepreneurship that is now dawning is intrinsically global. Startups may be intellectually global but they are physically local, which explains the increasing importance of startup hubs around the world. People, not as much.

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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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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

I hope to show why lean and agile techniques actually reduce the negative impacts of technical debt and increase our ability to take advantage of its positive effects. Yet other agile principles suggest the opposite, as in YAGNI and DoTheSimplestThingThatCouldPossiblyWork. Reconciling these principles requires a little humility.

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Lessons Learned: Please teach kids programming, Mr. President

Startup Lessons Learned

When I was a kid, the way I logged onto the internet for the first time (to play MUDs, naturally) was through an open dial-up console at San Diego State University. No logins, no codes, just raw uncensored internet access. School hostility to phones, nerds, and other things they dont understand. , etc. Expo SF (May.

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International tour about to begin

Startup Lessons Learned

Exact dates for all events arent yet pinned down, but heres what Im working on so far: October 28 for a TBA event in Paris, November 2-7 for a series of events in Malmo, Sweden including Øredev , and ending with a workshop at the Martti Ahtisaari Institute of Global Business and Economics at the University of Oulu. Expo SF (May.

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Join the lean startup discussion at Facebook on Thursday

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? If youd like to reserve a spot, please RSVP. Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets.

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