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See More than 120 Speakers and Mentors at The Lean Startup Conference

Startup Lessons Learned

Bill Gross founded Idealab in 1996, making it the longest-running technology incubator alive today. Bob Sutton is a Stanford professor and the author of several best-selling books on standout management, including Scaling Up Excellence , an investigation of high-growth companies.

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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). Although Catalyst folded with the dot-com crash, Ries continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com, leading efforts in agile software development and user-generated content.

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

Sharding for startups To support a single partitioning scheme is easy, especially if you design for it from the start. It also doesnt make sense to design your app for scalability from the start, since you may have to create many iterations before you find a version that requires any scalability at all. 21comments: Imran said.

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Revenue Development

K9 Ventures

In 1996, when I started my first company, SneakerLabs, Inc., As someone who is trained in Human Computer Interaction, I had followed the concept of User Centered Design. I tell these stories to lay the groundwork for what I am going to call Revenue Development. In a nutshell, Product Development is about building something.

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Why Internal Ventures are Different from External Startups

Steve Blank

A corporation, by contrast, is a permanent organization designed to execute a repeatable, scalable business model. But Xerox instead chose to shut XTV down in 1996, despite its external success. Worse, the potential new product might give customers a reason to delay the purchase of today’s products).

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Clients First: Move You Beyond The Cliché And Change Your Business Forever

YoungUpstarts

JoAnn and I entered real estate in 1996 when interest rates were almost 9 percent. Whether you give free popcorn to moviegoers or a free grooming to pet boarding clients or a gorgeous framed print to your interior design clients, you make them feel special. I should know. HOW-TO HINT: Look for something to give away.

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The Ultimate Guide to Starting a Software Company

Up and Running

Since the term “cloud computing” was coined in 1996—at least as we have come to understand its meaning—the software as a service industry has exploded. I used a freelance web designer and I only created the core functions to create, send, and manage invoices. Branding isn’t only a design-oriented initiative.