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9 Women Can’t Make a Baby in a Month

Both Sides of the Table

I’m a very big proponent of the “lean startup movement&# as espoused by Steve Blank & Eric Ries. You hire people too fast, you over build your products, you try to force market adoption and you do PR blitzes before your product is really ready for prime time. This post originally appeared on TechCrunch.

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Lessons Learned: What is customer development?

Startup Lessons Learned

But too often when its time to think about customers, marketing, positioning, or PR, we delegate it to "marketroids" or "suits." Steve Blank has devoted many years now to trying to answer that question, with a theory he calls Customer Development. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Heres the catch. Expo SF (May.

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Guest Post: Staying Innovative as Your Business Grows (Part Two)

OnlyOnce

In this article, I’ll talk about the process we’re using in our product management-and-development teams to stay innovative. As the team grew, we knew we had to be more systematic about how we innovated to get less experienced product managers and developers up to speed and having an impact quickly. The Process.

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Lessons Learned: Product development leverage

Startup Lessons Learned

Its a key lean startup concept. The idea of leverage is simple: for every ounce of effort your product development team puts into your product, find ways to magnify that effort by getting many other people to invest along with you. Making UGC work requires good tools, open standards, and proper incentive design.

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The Stealth Mode: Trada’s Position on Staying Stealth

trada.com

Conversely, a willing customer might not have the time to give you consistent feedback in the design stage – they just want the benefits of what you’re offering when it actually works. and we've been leaning towards remaining in stealth mode a bit longer. Great to hear a well thought out argument for that approach. Great post!

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

Because.NET is designed to extend, not disrupt. NET is designed to tightly integrate with and seamlessly extend the Microsoft stack in extremely powerful but ultimately incremental ways. Some us have evolved past the visual designers. Did you confused the Visual Studio WinForms designer with C#, then accidentally call it.NET?

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Blood, sweat, and tears: How we got from 0 to 500K downloads on a budget

The Next Web

Instagram launched into a community of influential design oriented Twitter users, which allowed it to generate 25K downloads on launch day as it reveal in this excellent video. A tip from our dev team: don’t hard-code strings in your app. If your update is buggy, users will be intolerant and trash you in reviews and ratings.

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