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The new startup arms race (for Huffington Post)

Startup Lessons Learned

Luckily for the rest of us, he was able to find his path to a green card, and now employs 24 Americans in West Lafayette, Indiana. The cost of creating new companies is falling rapidly, and access to markets, distribution, and information is within the reach of anyone with an Internet connection. He started Passageways Inc.

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Lessons Learned: The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time

Startup Lessons Learned

For example, by making this button green, did more people click on it? That green button was part of a customer flow, a series of actions you want customers to complete for some business reason. And we were fortunate to have Steve Blank , the originator of customer development, on our board to keep us honest.

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Lessons Learned: Achieving a failure

Startup Lessons Learned

I myself didnt understand it until I had the opportunity to view that failure through the lens of the customer development theory. I had a big advantage, because Steve Blank , the father of customer development, got to see the failure up close and personal too as an investor and board member.

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

The green arm is the best. ;) October 2, 2008 10:27 PM Andrew Badera said. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Waves of technology platforms The lean startup Customer Development Engineering Greasemonkey compiler Great open source scalability tools from Danga Ideas.

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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. May 16, 2009 1:52 PM Todd Green said. Not all programmers are entrepreneurs, granted there are exceptions.

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Lessons Learned: Continuous integration step-by-step

Startup Lessons Learned

Generally, if all tests pass, its happy (a green build) and if any tests fail, it will notify you by email. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? It runs all the automated tests youve written, and keeps track of the results. Startup Lessons Learned - the Conference (April 23.

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The Steve Jobs method

Startup Lessons Learned

Having so few products means Apple can dedicate enormous resources to each project once it gets the green light. Not everything has to follow lean startup and customer development principles, and I write that as a devoted practitioner of both. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are.