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Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

I lived through the time when working in my first job in Ann Arbor Michigan we had to get out a map to find out that San Jose was not only in Puerto Rico but there was a city with that same name in California. And that’s where my plane ticket ought to take me to install some computer equipment.

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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

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. While an undergraduate at Yale Unviersity, he co-founded Catalyst Recruiting. I will come back for more. Expo SF (May.

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Women 2.0 » FounderDating: How I Found My Co-Founder

www.women2.org

San Jose, CA. During this talk, well discuss the most effective techniques from Customer Discovery, Product Discovery, Lean Startups, Lean UX, Agile Development and Design Thinking to create real value for our customers. Learn how to create, launch, and manage your start-up over complimentary beer and wine.

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The Great Winnowing of World Cup & The Startup Ecosystem

Agile VC

Those of you who know me are probably aware that I’m a rabid soccer (football) fan.

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Urbanization of Startups ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Note (1): For those not familiar with the geography of the SF Bay Area, the city of San Francisco proper sits at the north end of a peninsula that stretches down to the smaller city of San Jose. Just a minor nitpicky point: San Jose is actually much larger than SF, in both population and land area. link] Chris G.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

ALT.NET is a large sector of the.NET community that isn’t satisfied with the status quo and wants to find the best, most agile way to do things. This is about the mental agility, inquisitiveness and determination of a coder. One prominent example: Stack Overflow. What would you say to an ALT.NET developer?

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