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Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Harvard Business.

Startup Lessons Learned

For a little while, the team can resort to the last defense of entrepreneurs in trouble: the promised hockey-stick. One thing that is often overlooked about the hockey-stick growth shape: its most distinctive characteristic is the long, flat part. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May.

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Lessons Learned: A hierarchy of pitches

Startup Lessons Learned

Ill exclude those non- lean startups who basically exist for the purpose of raising bigger and bigger sums of money. Most important slide: hockey stick Micro-scale results Key questions: who is the customer, and how do you know? How does a lean start-up find the all-star team worthy of pitching? Expo SF (May.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

This wasn’t very impressive, but we had two things going for us: A hockey stick shaped growth curve. People often forget the most important part of the hockey stick: the long flat part. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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