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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

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Of course this is not at all true of many profitable small businesses, but they are not what I mean by startups.) It should be even more important to the founders themselves, because it demonstrates that their business hypothesis is grounded in reality. They are busy too, but they are not creating value for the company.

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What would you want to tell Washington DC about startups?

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Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 8, 2009 What would you want to tell Washington DC about startups? Im writing this post from an airplane headed to Washington DC, where Ill be presenting at the Government 2.0 Hope your presentation here in Washington, DC reaches a few new minds today. There are and we do.

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What is a startup?

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And because both small businesses and startups have a high mortality rate, sometimes these images lead us to believe that any small business is a startup. And because both small businesses and startups have a high mortality rate, sometimes these images lead us to believe that any small business is a startup.

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

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interesting post March 20, 2009 5:26 PM Small business web site design said. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Lessons Learned: What is a market? (a guide for hackers)

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Having worked with dozens of founders over the past few months, I think I can safely say, without naming any names, that most of us are not too clear on what were talking about when it comes to markets. Founders are constantly being barraged by incoherent and contradictory advice. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.