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Lessons Learned: Cash is not king

Startup Lessons Learned

The full formula works like this: runway = cash on hand / burn rate # iterations = runway / speed of each iteration Very few successful companies ended up in the same exact business that the founders thought theyd be in (see Founders at Work for dozens of examples). Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Lessons Learned: Don't launch

Startup Lessons Learned

Figuring this out takes time, and few entrepreneurs have the patience to wait it out, because the business plan does such a good job of explaining what customers are going to think. And even worse, wed cranked up the burn rate in order to be ready to handle all those millions of mainstream customers we anticipated.

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Lessons Learned: Achieving a failure

Startup Lessons Learned

Without conscious process design, product development teams turn lines of code written into momentum in a certain direction. This is why agility is such a prized quality in product development. As far as I know, there are no products that are immune from the technology life cycle adoption curve.