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Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and what's changed since.

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Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, August 8, 2009 Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and whats changed since then) My recent article on technical debt and its positive uses generated a fair bit of controversy. The argument itself got me thinking a lot about design and its role in building products.

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Building a new startup hub

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The companies I spoke to all agreed that the community there was extremely supportive, especially in the critical ulta-early-stage. As a result, for a lot of these companies, Boulder is just a gateway to San Francisco. Then, create an encouraging environment for early-stage companies.

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Lessons Learned: The four kinds of work, and how to get them done.

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Another advantage of the early stages is that most dont have to juggle too many competing priorities. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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Techstars brings The Lean Startup to Boulder

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A discounted price is available for early stage entrepreneurs and students. Building on this, I’ve recently become fascinated with the notion of continuous deployment , a concept that has been popularized by Eric Ries and others. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Read the rest.

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How to listen to customers, and not just the loud people

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The people who are the lifeblood of an early-stage startup are earlyvangelists. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

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In an early-stage startup especially, revenue is not an important goal in and of itself. Let’s start with a simple question: why do early-stage startups want revenue? And yet their numbers continue to grow, month after month. But all things are never equal. And yet revenue alone is not a sufficient goal.

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Lessons Learned on Mashable today

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Unfortunately, they are disinterested in doing the hard work to help early stage entrepreneurs and companies. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ▼ 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. Bring your questions.