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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. Do you have a bug database?

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

Massive proprietary databases? The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Ha. Lean Startup Circle - a mailing list of dedicated and helpful entrepreneurs.

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Lessons Learned: Lean hiring tips

Startup Lessons Learned

They maintain a huge database of passive candidates, by offering to pay them when they interview. Thanks for taking the time to pass all this wisdom on to entrepreneurs. Particularly the Continuous Deployment and Split testing posts. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Bring your questions.

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Do lean startup principles have a place in the enterprise?

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Zappos could have gone off and built distribution centers, a large database of footwear, and inventory systems for shipping shoes. Entrepreneur Insider tnwcontributors' They didn’t validate their business model before investing so much in it and under-estimated the “last mile” problem. Contrast this to Zappos. Plus it’s good karma.

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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

*All* of the factors involved in delivering software are affected by starting with baseline requirements that are constrained to what the system should do and the process artifacts desired (say 5 forms reading and writing a database store). The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Lean startup tools for Rails apps

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Because it has an RSS feed, one could also use "Unresolved Hoptoad Errors" as a metric influencing the continuous deployment system. This keeps us from having to hit our database too much. If a release goes out and suddenly there are new errors, thats a sign that the batch was bad and needs to be reverted.

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Lessons Learned: Inc Magazine on Minimum Viable Product (and a.

Startup Lessons Learned

Thats why some entrepreneurs are trying another approach to product launches: marketing a product online before spending much on research and development or inventory. Then, the company spends no more than a few hundred dollars marketing the product through search engines and to the contacts in its sales database and LinkedIn.