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Hands-on Lessons for Advanced Topics in Entrepreneurship

Startup Lessons Learned

And Don Reinertsen will teach you how to calculate and weigh the implications of Cost of Delay —the monetary value of a week of cycle time for experiments—information that will change the way your organization runs experiments. Thus we reduce the risk of deployments. How do you address that?

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The curse of prevention

Startup Lessons Learned

Or, if it really was prevented, what was the opportunity cost of choosing to prevent it ahead of time? And in most situations, there is significant cost involved in negotiating over the right estimates to plug in. How much will it cost to solve this problem now? They are usually among the most heated arguments a company has.

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How to Get Picked as a Speaker for The Lean Startup Conference

Startup Lessons Learned

Not to mention $200,000 in staff time and hard costs. Generously, it might cost you $20,000. In other words, you could test ten book ideas for the cost of publishing one. So if you’ve got advice to share on implementing a continuous deployment framework, for example, we’re all eyes.

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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

Startup Lessons Learned

At the cost of a little extra indirection, you can organize your code around a series of long-lived objects, each of whom communicates with the other objects in simple, easy-to-understand ways. PHP can do what no other language or framework can (albeit django). Yes, Python developers DO tend to cost more.

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New conference website, speakers, agenda

Startup Lessons Learned

Tactics were discussed out of context, and there wasnt an overarching framework for figuring out what works for what kinds of companies, industries, and stages of growth. Doesnt the communication overhead of a large team lead to chaos of overlapping experiments and continuously-deployed bugs?" "If Is design important to lean startups?

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Product Discovery in Established Companies

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We’ve got more techniques than ever to do this, including many techniques for creating very low-cost and low-risk MVP Tests, and for proving things work with minimal investment and limited exposure, we love Live-Data Prototypes and A/B Testing Frameworks. See Product Discovery with Live-Data Prototypes.

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Lessons Learned: A new version of the Joel Test (draft)

Startup Lessons Learned

But if you want to practice rapid deployment, you need to be able to deploy that build in one step as well. If you want to do continuous deployment, youd better be able to certify that build too, which brings us to. For more on continuous deployment, see Just-in-time Scalability. Can you make a build in one step?