Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 15, 2010

They are long-term bets on the development of a new line of business, a new technology platform, or the creation of a new market. For a little while, the team can resort to the last defense of entrepreneurs in trouble: the promised hockey-stick. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Hockey Stick San Francisco Entrepreneur Lean 105

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Their product development team is hard at work on a next-generation product platform, which is designed to offer a new suite of products – but this effort is months behind schedule. And what of the product development team? This wasn’t very impressive, but we had two things going for us: A hockey stick shaped growth curve.

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Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 28, 2008

Turns out, they were incredibly well-credentialed graduate students who had, in fact, developed some interesting new robotics technology. Most important slide: hockey stick Micro-scale results Key questions: who is the customer, and how do you know? Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 128