Remove Continuous Deployment Remove Early Stage Remove Engineer Remove Forecast
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It's a startup, not a spreadsheet

Startup Lessons Learned

I think this idea is particularly appealing to those of us from an engineering background. Companies that reliably fail to make their forecasted numbers are exceptionally prone to “management retooling.&# Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. The solution is to change our focus from outputs to inputs.

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The Lean Entrepreneur is here

Startup Lessons Learned

Telecom O2 learning to move at the speed of the internet 500 Startups and their accelerated feedback loops on what works, and what doesn't work in early-stage investing. PayPal, under the leadership of David Marcus and Bill Scott, re-defining and re-engineering itself by embracing Lean Startup to improve the product experience.

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10 years of entrepreneurship

Startup Lessons Learned

We were focused on revenue, but we didnt understand that revenue is not important for its own sake in an early stage company. Talking about trends is more about trying to forecast the future, like a guru, sometimes it works, sometimes not. Google was not the first search engine, but it's the one that succeeded.