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Why Real Learning is Outside the Building, Not Demo Day

Steve Blank

While our teams have mentors, socialize a lot and give great demos, the goal of our class final presentations is “ Lessons Learned ” – about product/market fit, pricing, acquisition/activation costs, pricing, partners, etc. Filed under: Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad , Teaching.

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Replay launches out of beta – record and replay web applications to fix bugs faster!

Version One Ventures

Today we’re excited to share the official launch of Replay , a browser that records all of the context that developers and engineers need to fix bugs faster. Despite being decades into coding, most developers still debug with “printf” statements, essentially adding code to generate specific output while the program is executing.

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Awesome Austin Tech Events, May 8–15

Austin Startup

Some of the most interesting events in Austin for the week of May 8 through May 14 are as follows: Mon, May 8 thru Thurs, May 11: OSCON OSCON brings the software engineering and developer community together to explore what’s new and useful in open source languages, tools, and techniques. At Capital Factory at 7:00 pm.

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Case Study: Lean UX at work

Startup Lessons Learned

Originally a waterfall shop, we transitioned to Agile development about two years ago. The approach demystifies the design process by involving the other team members (yes, developers too!) Demos have become our design reviews.” Initially, the biggest challenge was to increase developers’ comfort level with such low-fi assets.

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SuperMac War Story 10: The Video Spigot « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Present at the Creation It was early 1991 and Apple’s software development team was hard at work on QuickTime , the first multimedia framework for a computer. But Apple had planned to announce and demo QuickTime without a way to get video into the Mac. The software was idiot proof. My first IPO at Convergent.

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The Evolution of Testing With Your Codebase

Austin Startup

If you just need a demo to work to show investors or you’re pivoting what you’re building every week, adding lots of tests provides very little value for how much it slows you down. You’ve increased the number of features as well as the number of developers working on them and it’s quite likely that not everyone knows everything anymore.

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The Evolution of Testing With Your Codebase

Austin Startup

If you just need a demo to work to show investors or you’re pivoting what you’re building every week, adding lots of tests provides very little value for how much it slows you down. You’ve increased the number of features as well as the number of developers working on them and it’s quite likely that not everyone knows everything anymore.