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Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 4, 2008
(Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). Thanks much.
www.startuplessonslearned.com
MAY 4, 2012
Founders Dilemmas: Equity Splits. The following is an excerpt from HBS Professor Noam Wasserman’s new book, The Founders Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup. On average, the founders who keep the most control over their company make the least amount of money. Lessons Learned.
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Steve Blank
MAY 11, 2009
The Cinepak codec was written by the engineer who would become my cofounder at Rocket Science Games.) My first IPO at Convergent. It still shocks me that marketing people in general don’t want to talk to customers, at all. I was the Senior Technical Writer for SMac from 1988-1991. It was fun watching it happen.
Startup Lessons Learned
JULY 3, 2009
The same has been true of an unfortunate number of startups, they manage to generate a lot of hype, raise a lot of money, and sometimes make some of their investors, employees, or founders rich. bigs : @ericries says Stealth dev is a (undesirable, failure-presaging) customer-free zone. Use some customer development to find out.
Startup Lessons Learned
APRIL 9, 2009
Thats the essence of so many of the lean startup techniques Ive evangelized: customer development , the Ideas/Code/Data feedback loop , and the adaptation of agile development to the startup experience. Creating a company-wide feedback loop that incorporates both customer development and agile development is a challenge.
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