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Amsterdam-based Rockstart Accelerator’s first graduates head to Silicon Valley

The Next Web

If you’re going to the Demo Day in Silicon Valley, these are the startups you’ll be hearing from: Peerby : Peerby enables people to rent goods in their neighborhood and just won over 100,000 euros at the Green Challenge. Wercker : a continuous deployment solution for software developers, hosted in the cloud.

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The Awesomeness of a Hackathon

Feld Thoughts

I’ve become a big advocate of true Agile development (partly because of my experience with Rally Software – the leader in Agile software development environments) and – more recently – the notion of trying to get to continuous deployment which has been popularized by Eric Ries. Demos and awards start at 5:30pm. Food is included.

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Lessons Learned: A hierarchy of pitches

Startup Lessons Learned

Most important slide: live demo Prototype product Key questions: what will it take to ship a working product? Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. whats the launch plan?

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Good enough never is (or is it?)

Startup Lessons Learned

The team was demoing their AJAX-powered map solution, the first of its kind, to senior management at Google. The team was demoing their AJAX-powered map solution, the first of its kind, to senior management at Google. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Ha.

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

Startup Lessons Learned

in many cases an example is required - demo, or in my case video guitar lesson along with google ads for quick test data. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica.

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Startup Stories: Looking back on the acquisition of our first 1,000 customers

The Next Web

Support via mail, phone, live demos and basically everything the customer wants. Yeah, I’m a big believer at being lean and to always practice continuous deployment. Here are my 2 cents on how we got here and what I would have done differently: Customer support is a company effort. For a while it was enough.

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A Different Kind of Entrepreneurship Conference

Startup Lessons Learned

The difference matters, because while there are more than enough conferences aimed at startups—more of them every year it seems—so many of them look the same: a succession of speakers who are on the conference circuit, and a series of fast pitches and demos from early-stage startups.

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