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Pragmatism with Flavor

TechEmpower

Although we spend plenty of time researching and developing with new technologies based on desire and need, we don't want our clients to be guinea pigs (unless that's the nature of their business, of course). A site with a million users is much easier to manage today than it was in 2000. Those requests had better be worth it!

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A New Way to Teach Entrepreneurship – The Lean LaunchPad at Stanford: Class 1

Steve Blank

It was designed to bring together many of the new approaches to building a successful startup – customer development, agile development, business model generation and pivots. Could we even could find 40 Stanford graduate students interested in being guinea pigs for this new class? This post is part one. What if I was wrong?

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

These founders have not managed, to borrow a phrase from Steve Blank , to create a scalable and repeatable sales process. Go on an agile diet quickly. With a product development team that is not shipping, any agile methodology will surface major problems quickly. They are closing orders. They are gaining valuable customer data.

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