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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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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. It was absolutely worth it. Passionate online communities are real societies.

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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. I think it makes explicable why so-called "best practices" that people bring to startups from other contexts fail so miserably. Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets.

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Datablindness

Startup Lessons Learned

"Spy satellites produced far more raw information than the government's battalion of overworked analysts could handle. When a Deputy Secretary of State official called the CIA to find out more, he was shocked to realize they had little to no information about the event. The CIA relied so heavily on [these]. Expo SF (May.

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Support the Startup Founders Visa with a tweet

Startup Lessons Learned

We met a number of policy makers from the White House and State Department, and had a solid Startup2Startup all about government policy and entrepreneurship. In a previous post , I asked readers for suggested topics that the US government needs to know about startups and entrepreneurs, and got some really interesting responses.

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What is a startup?

Startup Lessons Learned

It also causes them to miss the numerous other kinds of startups that appear in less-glamorous settings: inside enterprises, non-profits, and even governments. This is equally true of a packaged good in a grocery store, an ecommerce website, a non-profit social service or a variety of government programs. Wrong again. Wrong again.

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Startup Visa update

Startup Lessons Learned

Our trip was bipartisan, bicameral, and bi-branches-of-government. Our trip was bipartisan, bicameral, and bi-branches-of-government. This follows Congressman Jared Polis, who has introduced a similar bill as part of comprehensive immigration reform in the House. Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets.