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Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Ive attempted to embed the relevant slides below.

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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and in 2009 he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. Bring your questions. Amazon PostRank

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

Aren’t some of the recent successes in Los Angeles just emblematic of the overall long tech boom we’ve seen nationally and has led to growth in funding in NY, Boston, Seattle and San Francisco? But our best Internet software engineers have historically been exported on a net basis to the Bay Area. Structural.

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Meet Manu Kumar, Chief Firestarter at K9 Ventures

K9 Ventures

He holds a Bachelors in Electrical and Computer Engineering with University Honors and a Masters in Software Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University; and a Ph.D. Hyper-Local, meaning the entire team should be based in the San Francisco Bay Area. MK : I chose the name K9 for two reasons.

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18 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Did Prior to Starting Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

With a wealth of financial knowledge, I took a risk and became the CFO of a clean tech startup and eventually moved to San Francisco where my entire high end wardrobe became obsolete. Another benefit was that I was able to complete two master’s degrees, one in Software Engineering, and another in Engineering Management.

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What Businesses Need To Know In The Wake Of The Equifax Breach

YoungUpstarts

And the Equifax breach is likely to exacerbate this trend, potentially flooding the dark web with names, addresses, Social Security numbers, and other personal information that fraudsters can leverage to gain access to a legitimate user’s account. They then make purchases with a stored payment method or drain value from the user’s account.

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Middle-East-Meets-West Provides An Edge For B2B Tech Companies

YoungUpstarts

San Francisco and Tel Aviv are two of the greatest cities in the world for tech, each with a distinct culture and unique benefits to offer. Leadspace was founded in 2010 and maintains offices in both San Francisco and just outside Tel Aviv in Hod HaSharon, Israel. Let’s start with San Francisco.

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