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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

This is a philosophy that governs my daily life as well as my entrepreneurial activities. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. September 11, 2008 2:06 PM Editor said.

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The Lean Entrepreneur is here

Startup Lessons Learned

Scott Summitt iteratively leveraging the emerging technologies of digital fabrication and 3d-scanning to change people's lives. Struggling to explain the successes and failures of those companies, I discussed principles like continuous deployment, customer development, and a hyper-accelerated form of agile. It's a big tent.

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What is a startup?

Startup Lessons Learned

It also causes them to miss the numerous other kinds of startups that appear in less-glamorous settings: inside enterprises, non-profits, and even governments. And yet, we so often loose sight of the fact that startups are not their products, their technological breakthroughs, or even their data. Wrong again. Wrong again.

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Gov 2.0 Summit wrap-up

Startup Lessons Learned

whorunsgov : Eric Ries: Startups fail not because the technology works, but because no one wants the tech. Every bit as true for government as for enterprise - and even the two guys in a garage. Its natural at a gathering like this to focus on new technology and applications. Federal government should do nothing.

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Lessons Learned: Where did Silicon Valley come from?

Startup Lessons Learned

Its an academic treatise that tries to answer a seemingly straightforward question: after World War II, why did Silicon Valley become the undisputed leader of the technology world, while Bostons Route 128 corridor did not. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Ha.

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What would you want to tell Washington DC about startups?

Startup Lessons Learned

Im writing this post from an airplane headed to Washington DC, where Ill be presenting at the Government 2.0 Im especially curious to gauge the reaction of the civilian and military representatives of our government. Ive been in a few government-themed meetings recently, so I know some of the standard answers.

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Case Study: Rapid iteration with hardware

Startup Lessons Learned

On the other extreme, modern web-based applications face almost no technical risk, and are governed by high market uncertainty. Slow-moving cycles, like drug discovery or new automobile models, govern the slow part of the axis. Continuous deployment of hardware is an exciting new capability. Better yet, he plays drums.