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Fear is the mind-killer

Startup Lessons Learned

As the product matured, they were able to ratchet up the quality to prevent regression on features that had been truly embraced by their customers. Starting instead from a position where feedback cycle time is the priority and allowing quality to ratchet up as the product matures provides a more natural lead in to continuous deployment.

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Lessons Learned: The hacker's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

This is one of the bedrock practices of any lean startup , and so its a common piece of advice I give out. It also helps ratchet down the pressure, since so many of the interruptions that plague the typical hacker are actually the same bugs recurring over and over. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May.

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Introducing New Lean Startup Practitioners

Startup Lessons Learned

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. In building the program for this year’s Lean Startup Conference , we’ve tried to strike a balance. To give you a sense of these practitioners, we asked some our new speakers to talk about how they use Lean Startup methods. Below are three of their takes on MVPs.

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