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A new field guide for entrepreneurs of all stripes

Startup Lessons Learned

TLDR: Brant Cooper and Patrick Vlaskovits , authors of The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development are back with a new book called The Lean Entrepreneur. It took the idea of Customer Development and made it accessible to a whole new audience. Illustrations by FAKEGRIMLOCK. You can pre-order it starting today.

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Lessons Learned: Using AdWords to assess demand for your new.

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, November 7, 2008 Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online service, step-by-step If you want to build an online service, and you dont test it with a fake AdWords campaign ahead of time, youre crazy. Oops - there went several precious weeks of development effort down the drain.

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Lessons Learned: Please teach kids programming, Mr. President

Startup Lessons Learned

After volunteering for the Obama campaign last year, a friend of mine insisted that I write a letter to our new President telling him what I thought he should do. But its not very open, and not very programmable, unless you have an expensive Mac and an approved developer license. Ill explain in a moment. This post is the result.

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

All successful media companies had at their heart a series of editors, producers, and agents tasked with discovering and developing new talent. When I reviewed a recent product development book, it immediately shot up to Amazon sales rank 300. Look at the stories of the current generation of aging superstars in any industry.

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Video update on the Startup Visa Act

Startup Lessons Learned

As bills in both chambers of Congress pick up supporters and co-sponsors, its more important than ever for citizens who care about this issue to call, write, and tweet their representatives. We have a list of ways on the StartupVisa website: Go to our campaign page & tweet your support NOW! (<30 Want to get involved?

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Tell your Startup Visa story

Startup Lessons Learned

Whether youre a US citizen or an immigrant, entrepreneur or investor, founder or employee, theres something you can do. If you are an immigrant founder who has helped build a company that has created jobs in the US, we need you to tell your story. I know that sometimes campaigns like this can seem overwhelming.

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Startup Visa update

Startup Lessons Learned

After so many of you stepped forward to show your support in last years 2gov campaign , I got a call out of the blue from a member of Senator Lugars staff. After so many of you stepped forward to show your support in last years 2gov campaign , I got a call out of the blue from a member of Senator Lugars staff.