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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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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 My hope for this conference is that it will benefit the global community of entrepreneurs. My hope for this conference is that it will benefit the global community of entrepreneurs.

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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. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ▼ 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. Expo (and a call for he.

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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. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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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. Particularly the Continuous Deployment and Split testing posts. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Labels: hiring , lean startup 4comments: Tamar said. This post has been removed by the author.

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The Lean Startup Workshop - now an O'Reilly Master Class

Startup Lessons Learned

Im open to being the coffee and snack technician :-) On another note, I live in Atlanta and believe that we have a strong enough start-up community that would greatly benefit from your lessons learned. I have contacts within the university and entrepreneurial communities and would be happy to help you set up something if interested.

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