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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)? The problem is when you’re chasing revenue; any and all customers will seem like the right customer. Will you need a big net (full-page ads in the WSJ) to catch lots of small sardines?

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Validated learning about customers Would you rather have $30,000 or $1 million in revenues for your startup? All things being equal, of course, you’d rather have more revenue rather than less. And yet revenue alone is not a sufficient goal. More on that in a moment.

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Why vanity metrics are dangerous

Startup Lessons Learned

If you never have, you can create your own using Google Finance. They were accustomed to measuring their progress primarily by gross revenue compared to their targets. If you never have, you can create your own using Google Finance. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Lessons Learned: Refactoring yourself out of business

Startup Lessons Learned

They asked for my advice, and we went through a number of recommendations that readers of this blog will already be able to guess: adding revenue opportunities, engagement loop optimization, and some immediate split-testing to figure out whats working and whats not. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.