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This Weekend

Startup Lessons Learned

Product management and customer development, KISSmetrics. One caveat: if you come by, you are automatically volunteering to be subjected to some intense customer development. Also: booze. The evening's slate: 20 Ways to Not Build Stuff Cindy Alvarez. Co-founder, Backblaze.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

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The rest can be outsourced to wherever (Estonia – Skype; someone mentioned digg above; you can even send this junk to India and get it with questionable quality). So frequently embarrassing failures are masked by spinning PR or fudging numbers to give the illusion of success. Alex The critical stuff MUST be done in-the-house.