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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 36: Jim Semick and Peter Arvai

Steve Blank

The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Peter Arvai , co-founder of Prezi , an interactive presentation platform. And a founding team needs more than a complementary skill set. Jim Semick.

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Thank you

Startup Lessons Learned

I am grateful to everyone who helped make this event a success, especially my co-organizers Charles Hudson and David Sachs. When I first encountered customer development , it was considered pure lunacy by mainstream entrepreneurs and VCs. Entrepreneurship is the life-blood of our global civilization. We all owe you.

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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. October 20, 2008 9:34 PM Nivi said. October 20, 2008 10:36 PM Nathan said.

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New conference website, speakers, agenda

Startup Lessons Learned

Weve gone from total obscurity to something people are beginning to misunderstand and even co-opt. The Lean Startup movement is already global ( see the map ). Thats as it should be, as the new era of entrepreneurship that is now dawning is intrinsically global. Congratulations. People, not as much. Congratulations.

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Lessons Learned: Please teach kids programming, Mr. President

Startup Lessons Learned

Then you set up a web app to co-ordinate volunteers who can wipe a hard drive and install Ubuntu. You can find out more at: manning.com/sande Many thanks in advance, Todd -- Todd Green Manning Publications Co. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Good Post.

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

Instead, techniques like Five Whys teach us to view the entire application and product development team as one integrated system. Once we can see opportunities for truly global efficiency gains, all that remains is to ensure our team actually makes room for those investments. From this holistic viewpoint, we can optimize accordingly.

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International tour about to begin

Startup Lessons Learned

Exact dates for all events arent yet pinned down, but heres what Im working on so far: October 28 for a TBA event in Paris, November 2-7 for a series of events in Malmo, Sweden including Øredev , and ending with a workshop at the Martti Ahtisaari Institute of Global Business and Economics at the University of Oulu.