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Hands-on Lessons for Advanced Topics in Entrepreneurship

Startup Lessons Learned

For instance, Brant Cooper will lead you through applying Lean Startup in HR, IT and finance teams. We asked him a few questions to learn about continuous delivery, why it’s useful, and what engineers and management need to do to implement it. Thus we reduce the risk of deployments. How do you address that?

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A new field guide for entrepreneurs of all stripes

Startup Lessons Learned

Or will you need to staff and finance a whaling ship to be out at sea for months at a time to catch two or three whales (enterprise sales model)? Like Continuous Deployment, whereby IMVU deployed changes to their web application +50 times per day, BetaBrand's aim is to put out a new product every day.

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Why vanity metrics are dangerous

Startup Lessons Learned

If you never have, you can create your own using Google Finance. If you never have, you can create your own using Google Finance. 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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Lessons Learned: Product development leverage

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, April 26, 2009 Product development leverage Leverage has once again become a dirty word in the world of finance, and rightly so. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. But I want to talk about a different kind of leverage, the kind that you can get in product development.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

but few step back and really examine the underlying assumptions of startup finance. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ▼ 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Ha.

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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

Cost and time are effectively absolutes (The Caretaker's high finance schenanigans and 20th century Physics aside). 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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Fear is the mind-killer

Startup Lessons Learned

I spent some time with his company before the conference and discussed ways to get started with continuous deployment , including my experience introducing it at IMVU. Moreover, approaching the problem from the direction that I had intuitively is a recipe for never reaching a point where continuous deployment is feasible.