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The Principles of Product Development Flow

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, July 13, 2009 The Principles of Product Development Flow If youve ever wondered why agile or lean development techniques work, The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development by Donald G. Reinertsen is the book for you.

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The Next 10 Years Of Infocomm Technology

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Painting the scenario of how things will evolve, Cort Isernhagen of IDC Insights forecasted at the recent Infocomm Technology Roadmap Symposium 2012 that the ICT landscape over the next 10 years needs to consider four macro trends supported by four key pillars of technology. What will the future of InfoComm Technology (ICT) be like?

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

Own the development methodology - in a traditional product development setup, the VP Engineering or some other full-time manager would be responsible for making sure the engineers wrote adequate specs, interfaced well with QA, and also run the scheduling "trains" for releases. Labels: product development 15comments: mukund said.

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It's a startup, not a spreadsheet

Startup Lessons Learned

Companies that reliably fail to make their forecasted numbers are exceptionally prone to “management retooling.&# Certainly venture-backed startups don’t have this luxury – every business plan has a model in it. Just because entrepreneurs tend to forget about these models doesn’t mean their investors do.

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John Doerr's 10 lean startup tips

Startup Lessons Learned

Get 18 months or more of cash (runway) in the business against a conservative forecast. Act now, act with speed. Protect the vital core of the business.Use a scalpel to make strategic cuts. Defer all facilities expansions, capital expenditures. Use Google Apps. Reprioritize & rerationalize all R&D.

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10 years of entrepreneurship

Startup Lessons Learned

Talking about trends is more about trying to forecast the future, like a guru, sometimes it works, sometimes not. Of course, will be hard to turn in future your free success onto money success, but maybe it´s a to go. About spot trends. i dont believe we can do thinks like that. What we do is to build the future WITH the users.

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Lessons Learned: Five Whys

Startup Lessons Learned

Because five whys kept turning up a few key metrics that were hard to set static thresholds for, we even had a dynamic prediction algorithm that would make forecasts based on past data, and fire alerts if the metric ever went out of its normal bounds. You can even read a cool paper one of our engineers wrote on this approach).