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Lessons Learned: Product development leverage

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, April 26, 2009 Product development leverage Leverage has once again become a dirty word in the world of finance, and rightly so. But I want to talk about a different kind of leverage, the kind that you can get in product development. Its a key lean startup concept. Yeah, weve got that.

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What would you want to tell Washington DC about startups?

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So heres my simple question: What do folks in Washington need to know about the global community of entrepreneurs? I started my last company with 100% off-shore resources because I could never have completed Customer Development at a reasonable cost of money or regulatory burden had I employed US Citizens. There are and we do.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

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If someone had been there and just told me “join a great founding team, focus on the product, and forget everything else,” I would have saved a lot of time and heartache. The “business person&# should be working non-stop validating the product/service well before the first version is ready. Love the guest post TechCrunch!