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

Startup Lessons Learned

Companies that reliably fail to make their forecasted numbers are exceptionally prone to “management retooling.&# One way to conceive of our goal in an early-stage venture is to incrementally “fill in the blanks&# for the business model that we think will one day power our startup.

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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. BetaBrand building apparel MVPs and testing them quickly with targeted customer communities. The result: a new idea I called The Lean Startup.

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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. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. About spot trends.