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Why Continuous Deployment?

Startup Lessons Learned

Of all the tactics I have advocated as part of the lean startup , none has provoked as many extreme reactions as continuous deployment , a process that allows companies to release software in minutes instead of days, weeks, or months. One is used by engineers to refer to the process of getting code fully integrated into production.

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The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development

Startup Lessons Learned

Brant and Patrick undertook a difficult challenge: to provide a generally accessible introduction to Customer Development, without diluting its impact or dumbing-down its principles. At the heart of Brant and Patricks interpretation of Customer Development is their belief that its fundamental teaching is to question assumptions.

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A real Customer Advisory Board

Startup Lessons Learned

The key to successful integration of customer feedback is to make each kind of collection part of the regular company discipline of building and releasing products. Anyone who has worked in a real-world product development team can tell you how utopian that sounds. That’s natural. That’s natural.

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

When I reviewed a recent product development book, it immediately shot up to Amazon sales rank 300. And as everyone’s attention starts to focus on those same indicators, their value is being diluted. If they don’t, there are a new breed of lean startups who understand this deep in the bones ready to take their place.

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

David Teten

At the same time, a direct equity investment (one where the dev shop acquires a share in the company immediately) puts the founders in a potentially uneasy position of having to dilute their company before a product is built. Second, the company must eventually own the product development and maintenance functions in-house.

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90 Things I've Learned From Founding 4 Technology Companies

betashop.com

I firmly believe that in this age where the product development life-cycle is so short and user feedback comes so quickly, you will know within a year whether you are focusing on a worthwhile one thing. A couple of dilution points here or there wont matter in the long run but working with the right people will.? This is tricky.

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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

maplebutter.com

How to stay lean and iterate quickly while you’re building a two sided marketplace, especially when “network effect” and “critical mass” are the two main focuses? Near shoring development with your team (ex: your team is based in Canada / India) is cool, but not outsourcing. Should I require and NDA?