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Building a new startup hub

Startup Lessons Learned

Ive written a little bit about the origins of Silicon Valley because I think its important for us to understand how we got here in order to make sure we preserve what is best about our community. The companies I spoke to all agreed that the community there was extremely supportive, especially in the critical ulta-early-stage.

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New conference website, speakers, agenda

Startup Lessons Learned

Doesnt the communication overhead of a large team lead to chaos of overlapping experiments and continuously-deployed bugs?" "If And do I still need to get out of the building if Ive got great metrics and surveys?" My hope for this conference is that it will benefit the global community of entrepreneurs.

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A real Customer Advisory Board

Startup Lessons Learned

And, as you can see in my previous post on “ The cardinal sin of community management &# the feedback could be all over the map. But we had some super-active customers who would act as editors, collecting feedback from all over the community and synthesizing it into a report of the top issues. It was absolutely worth it.

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Datablindness

Startup Lessons Learned

That’s because many of our reports feed us vanity metrics: numbers that make us look good but don’t really help make decisions. Yet even among those who have access to good actionable metrics, I’ve noticed a phenomenon that prevents taking maximum advantage of data. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Lessons Learned: Please teach kids programming, Mr. President

Startup Lessons Learned

We also learned that law is code , and that leadership was needed to build thriving communities in a digital age. When I was a kid, the way I logged onto the internet for the first time (to play MUDs, naturally) was through an open dial-up console at San Diego State University. No logins, no codes, just raw uncensored internet access.

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Lessons Learned: Lean hiring tips

Startup Lessons Learned

This is another sub-optimization caused by incentivizing the wrong metric. You are doing the startup community a great service by sharing your insights via your blog. Particularly the Continuous Deployment and Split testing posts. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Keep them coming.

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

And thanks to the radical transparency enabled by the internet, the quality of these proposals is actually constantly rising, to the point that it’s almost impossible to judge the quality of the final product – because all the proposals look polished and professional, even the terrible ones. Is that a lot?