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Lessons Learned: Five Whys

Startup Lessons Learned

A new bit of code contained an infinite loop! why did that code get written? Hes a new employee, and he was not properly trained in TDD So far, this isnt much different from the kind of analysis any competent operations team would conduct for a site outage. Most engineers would ship code to production on their first day.

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Twitter Link Roundup #227 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

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This map reveals exactly where Silicon Valley gets its talent | VentureBeat – crowdspring.co/1kLpblq. Entrepreneurs Need a Better Way to Cash Out | Kanyi Maqubela – Harvard Business Review – crowdspring.co/SKltNW. You just need some smart bots | MIT Technology Review – crowdspring.co/1hLIBY3.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. s the new way to code, and quite easy to learn. You can write back end code in javascript, one language conquers all! PHP-FPM (a patch for php4/5 to greatly improve FastCGI SAPI usage). cakePHP (PHP).

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Lies Entrepreneurs Tell Themselves « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Convergent Technologies When I was in my 20’s I worked at Convergent Technologies , a company that was proud to be known as the “Marine Corps of Silicon Valley.” What is your advice to someone who has financial strain due to a startup? It was a brawling “take no prisoners,” work hard, party hard, type of company.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

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Out of the Crisis #26: Brian Armstrong of Coinbase on cryptocurrency, being mission-oriented, and institution building

Startup Lessons Learned

For many of us in Silicon Valley, one of the notable events of the crisis was Brian's public stance about the role of corporate leadership in social issues. And I started to learn simpler languages like HTML, PHP. I was writing some software, I was doing some product management stuff. This is Out Of the Crisis.

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Lessons Learned: Achieving a failure

Startup Lessons Learned

Without conscious process design, product development teams turn lines of code written into momentum in a certain direction. As with many Silicon Valley failures, a flawless PR launch turned into a flawed customer acquisition strategy. After years of engineering effort, changing these assumptions was incredibly hard.