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Speed up or slow down? (for Harvard Business Review)

Startup Lessons Learned

Heres an excerpt: The Startups Rules of Speed - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review Every startup that achieves success eventually faces a critical moment — whether to speed up or slow down. Hence, cutting corners often paid huge dividends. Hence, cutting corners often paid huge dividends.

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

Startup Lessons Learned

Thats when this approach can pay huge dividends. You need to make sure you dont get away from trying bold new things, using some combination of your vision and in-depth customer conversations to come up with the next idea to try. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Lessons Learned: Refactoring yourself out of business

Startup Lessons Learned

I thought we were having a successful conversation. If thats not a team-wide phenomenon, then its still a form of waste, because everyone has to learn every lesson before it starts paying dividends. Back to my conversation with the company I met recently. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.