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How We Fooled Ourselves into Delaying Our Startup’s Launch

viniciusvacanti.com

Soon after, I started attending the Lean Startup meetup in New York and reading Eric Reis’s writings. But, despite being all in on the Lean Startup movement, we didn’t do that. After we re-launched as a daily deal aggregator, we got exactly one email from a user saying they missed the sample sales. I was believer.

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The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 2: Business Model Hypotheses

Steve Blank

Our new Stanford Lean LaunchPad class was an experiment in a new model of teaching startup entrepreneurship. We graded them on a scale of 1-5, posted our grades and comments to a shared Google doc, and had our Teaching Assistant aggregate the grades and feedback to pass on to the teams.). This post is part two. Part one is here.

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90 Things I've Learned From Founding 4 Technology Companies

betashop.com

I firmly believe that in this age where the product development life-cycle is so short and user feedback comes so quickly, you will know within a year whether you are focusing on a worthwhile one thing. If it’s done right, feedback and postmortems are regular activities and reviews are just the official aggregation of such feedback.?.

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Four Tips For Aspiring Entrepreneurs

YoungUpstarts

In addition to giving our customers the power to generate and aggregate audience response data in real time, Turning Technologies has been able to collect and use customer feedback to hone our product development efforts. Business leaders who achieve sustained growth have invariably found a way to do this effectively.

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“Coming for the Content, Staying for the Community” Started With Video Games (Or Maybe Religion?) But Will Define Media This Decade

Hunter Walker

The “absolutely yes” category was dominated by creators who had branched beyond their initial piece of content and created some persistent space for the community to aggregate. For example, Lenny Rachitsky writes a newsletter devoted to technology and product development. Most typically in Slack, Facebook, WhatsApp or Discord.

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Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business)

Startup Lessons Learned

Two others – that each team member give their input independently and that the results be objectively aggregated – are also key parts of building a meritocracy. The work product is a more realistic test, although it requires much more work on the part of the candidate. So why is demographic diversity important?

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There’s more to generative AI than picks and shovels

VC Cafe

As David Sacks from All in put it: On aggregate, a lot of funding was also deployed to startups in the application layer – investing in founders leveraging generative AI to either solve narrow tasks, or bring automation to tasks to reduce costs, increase accuracy, speed etc.