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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. In the late 90′s I saw a dangerous trend creeping into the startup world, which was that companies were suddenly raising huge amounts of money too early in their existence. You have a hunch.

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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." This theory has become so influential that I have called it one of the three pillars of the lean startup - every bit as important as the changes in technology or the advent of agile development.

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Lessons Learned: Product development leverage

Startup Lessons Learned

But I want to talk about a different kind of leverage, the kind that you can get in product development. Its a force that allows startups to build products at parity with much larger companies - cheaper and much faster. Its a key lean startup concept. Open APIs and data-oriented architecture (aka "web 2.0").

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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. We stole a lot of our process from some of the leading thinkers in the “Lean Startup” space – particularly Gary Blanks’ Four Steps to the Epiphany and Randy Komisar’s Getting to Plan B. The Process.

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The Stealth Mode: Trada’s Position on Staying Stealth

trada.com

One of my favorite startup debates is about stealth mode. Vivek Wadhwa ( @vwadhwa ) TechCrunch even published a piece decrying the end of startup stealth mode. Which is in direct contradiction to his earlier blog post, “ Why you shouldn’t keep your startup idea secret.&#

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

blog.expensify.com

You become so steeped in tools and techniques that have absolutely no relevance outside of.NET that you are actually less valuable to a startup than had you just taken a long nap. Two things: If you ever want to work in a startup, avoid.NET. But what they do is very, very rarely startups. It does you no favors.

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

The Next Web

When I started my startup journey two years ago, one word came to my mind whenever I thought about marketing: liars. As time passed and I took on the marketing role for my startup (while everybody else was busy coding), I started to see marketers differently. When you’re marketing a startup, you don’t have a fat marketing budget.

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