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Building a new startup hub

Startup Lessons Learned

Ive written a little bit about the origins of Silicon Valley because I think its important for us to understand how we got here in order to make sure we preserve what is best about our community. The companies I spoke to all agreed that the community there was extremely supportive, especially in the critical ulta-early-stage.

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A real Customer Advisory Board

Startup Lessons Learned

And, as you can see in my previous post on “ The cardinal sin of community management &# the feedback could be all over the map. But we had some super-active customers who would act as editors, collecting feedback from all over the community and synthesizing it into a report of the top issues. It was absolutely worth it.

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Beyond the garage

Startup Lessons Learned

It may be hard to remember that there was a time when people in the agile software development community thought Lean Startup was incompatible with agile practices. For readers of this blog, Steve needs no introduction. Yes, you really can use continuous deployment – even in an SEC regulated environment.

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New conference website, speakers, agenda

Startup Lessons Learned

Doesnt the communication overhead of a large team lead to chaos of overlapping experiments and continuously-deployed bugs?" "If Of course, readers of this blog know that the lean in "lean startup" doesnt refer to cost, but - rather - to Lean Thinking. Is design important to lean startups? I think this is a fair question.

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Lessons Learned: Please teach kids programming, Mr. President

Startup Lessons Learned

We also learned that law is code , and that leadership was needed to build thriving communities in a digital age. If you find it worthwhile, we'd appreciate a post on the blog to help us spread the word. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Can I send you a review copy? Expo (and a call for he.

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Lessons Learned: Lean hiring tips

Startup Lessons Learned

You are doing the startup community a great service by sharing your insights via your blog. The blog is fantastic as well. Particularly the Continuous Deployment and Split testing posts. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. January 21, 2009 6:39 AM Kevin Merritt said. Keep them coming.

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Lessons Learned: Product development leverage

Startup Lessons Learned

Most importantly, there is almost no niche or trend that is unserved by this community. When you participate in an open community like these you take advantage of tremendous amounts of effort. Even as "just a user" you make the community better by adding momentum. Yeah, weve got that. Leverage is work, though. Very useful post.