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Twitter Link Roundup #130 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Better Agile Than Smart – [link]. Six Myths of Product Development – [link]. The Scarcest Resource at Startups is Management Bandwidth – [link]. Unlimited Vacation Doesn’t Create Slackers–It Ensures Productivity – [link]. Better Agile Than Smart – [link]. Who’s Next?

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Lean Startup fbFund wrap-up

Startup Lessons Learned

The same has been true of an unfortunate number of startups, they manage to generate a lot of hype, raise a lot of money, and sometimes make some of their investors, employees, or founders rich. bigs : @ericries says Stealth dev is a (undesirable, failure-presaging) customer-free zone. Use some customer development to find out.

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Lessons Learned: Using AdWords to assess demand for your new.

Startup Lessons Learned

Now were not exactly in stealth-mode - weve pitched at Techcrunch - but Id rather not go dancing in my competitors faces. 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?

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How to conduct a Five Whys root cause analysis

Startup Lessons Learned

The person running the meeting does not have to be a manager or executive. You can almost hear a manager now: “sure, if you want me to spend the next six weeks setting this up, just let me know. Even in that case, we can ask the manager involved to simply spend the first hour of the six-week ideal solution.

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Lessons Learned: Achieving a failure

Startup Lessons Learned

Build the product in stealth mode to build buzz for the eventual launch. It was considered naive that the "next AOL" would ship a product that wasnt ready for prime time. Stealth is a customer-free zone. This is why agility is such a prized quality in product development. We can skip the chasm.

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16 Common Mistakes Young Startups Make

mashable.com

You are small and agile, which means you have a high rate of innovation and growth, and with that comes work! If you dont manage this expectation upon hiring, you will be managing employee issues six months down the line. Not Embracing Agility. "If Often times, that work eventually goes beyond your job description.

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