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Lessons Learned: Product development leverage

Startup Lessons Learned

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. Great post!

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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

As a reminder, the Dot Com bubble was a five-year period from August 1995 (the Netscape IPO ) when there was a massive wave of experiments on the then-new internet, in commerce, entertainment, nascent social media, and search. It has to find product-market fit before running out of cash. Every startup is in a race against time.

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8 Advantages To Building Your Own Startup Prototypes

Startup Professionals Musings

The movement has long since spread across the country and across the globe, spawning innovative products such as the MakerBot Digitizer and all the things you can access from Thingiverse.com. Events for enthusiasts, formerly called Maker Faires, now stretch across the USA and into many other countries.

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8 Ways The Maker Movement Turns Ideas Into Businesses

Startup Professionals Musings

This Maker Movement has now spread across the world, spawning hundreds of events and companies, including Maker Faires, Makerspaces, Hackerspaces, and Maker Film Fests. In today’s fast moving market, the basic product development cost and time are critical to survival. Facilitates building skills and familiarity with new tools.

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Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases non-events

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 18, 2010 Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases non-events The following is a case study of one entrepreneurs transition from a traditional development cycle to continuous deployment. I also identified a set of events that would indicate something terribly going wrong (e.g.

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Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – Steve Gilison

SoCal CTO

I have about 11 years in the technology sector including roles doing market research, sales and product development. My focus has been marketing strategy and product development. Most people think they can do product design. What networking events in Los Angeles or Southern California do you go to?

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The Golden Age of the Boston Internet Entrepreneur

Genuine VC

There are a couple classic archetypes of internet/software founders, including the genius college student cooking up something quirky but ultimately disruptive in his dorm room who launches his company straight out of undergrad. Reactions when I told people I was an “internet entrepreneur” ranged from smirks to blank stares.

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