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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). Eventually, I came to summarize these themes with the phrase " the lean startup."

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

I hope to show why lean and agile techniques actually reduce the negative impacts of technical debt and increase our ability to take advantage of its positive effects. Leverage product development with open source and third parties. In such cases, you're better off experimenting or investing in lean process.

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Revenue Development

K9 Ventures

SneakerLabs’ first product was a Java-based chat server and client. The hosted offering worked by having users place an “HTML-snippet” on their own website, which would retrieve the Java Applet from our servers and connect back to our servers. I tell these stories to lay the groundwork for what I am going to call Revenue Development.

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Lessons Learned: The ABCDEF's of conducting a technical interview

Startup Lessons Learned

At the time, I was a die-heard Java zealot. and going into a long diatribe about how insecure the ActiveX architecture was compared to Javas pristine sandbox. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May.

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Quick Update

Guy Nirpaz

Many of GigaSpaces ‘ ISV customers are moving to SaaS. The motivation behind the move varies, however, one clear motive is customer demand. In addition, I’ve used lean practices to run a product development for years now. To me this sounds as: business opportunity.

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Lessons Learned: What is a market? (a guide for hackers)

Startup Lessons Learned

In the world of startups, this is like trying to sell a product to a very demanding customer who needs to see a lot of features before buying. Remember Java? The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Part 3- Lean Cust. Mobile Tools: If you are a web developer, you donâ??t t have time to learn iOS or Java during the weekend. Aptana Cloud (svn, IDE, php, java, rails etc…). Steve Blank’s Lean Startup Resources.