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Lessons Learned: Product development leverage

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Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, April 26, 2009 Product development leverage Leverage has once again become a dirty word in the world of finance, and rightly so. But I want to talk about a different kind of leverage, the kind that you can get in product development. Its a key lean startup concept. Amazon PostRank

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How to pick a co-founder

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Two founders works because unanimity is possible, there are no founder politics, interests can easily align, and founder stakes are high post-financing. Engineer heavy startups are common now, so doubling or tripling your development team at the outset is incredible. Read some fun reviews of this site. Date first.

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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

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Most of the other processs changes - mandatory design reviews (prelimninary, critical, etc), - documenting all our procedures, and so on - were to support those two factors. A project usually has an absolute duration and budget whereas the time and money dedicated to development within the project is where the tradeoffs are made.