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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. In school I was being pounded day and night with anything that has to do with agile software development. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. However, its particularly helpful in this situation. Expo SF (May.

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The fundamental lesson of the forces governing scaling startups

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Consider the timeline of adding a technical support team member. Since that takes four months, we have to be able to predict the demand for technical support at least four months in advance, because we have to be hiring for that future demand right now. Predictability is also required for healthy team-growth.