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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

The application of agile development methodologies which dramatically reduce waste and unlock creativity in product development. See Customer Development Engineering for my first stab at articulating the theory involved) Ferocious customer-centric rapid iteration, as exemplified by the Customer Development process.

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Should You Co-Found Your Company With a Software Development Shop (2 of 2)?

David Teten

Customer development would be reduced to a single person exercise that could be repeated in parallel dozens of times over, ultimately yielding 30+ companies a year. Many industries are very difficult to penetrate from the outside, e.g. healthcare, education, government services, and more. Our model at Casual Corp. Rock Health).