Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

Because of IMVUs reputation, Ive also had the opportunity to serve as an advisor or board member for more than a dozen startups. It is encouraging to know someone with your reputation and connections is evangelizing truly valuable information for start-ups. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 2, 2008

What I tell most startups we fund is that if someone reputable offers you funding on reasonable terms, take it. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica.

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SVPG

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

But one of the real advantages from a product point of view is that there’s no legacy to drag along, there’s no revenue to preserve, and there’s no reputation to safeguard. This is why we use Gentle Deployment Techniques including assessing customer impact. That said, we need to do this in a responsible way.

Product 67

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2010

Despite Google’s reputation as an innovative company, they seem to me to be counted as one of the last of the old breed. Despite Google’s reputation as an innovative company, they seem to me to be counted as one of the last of the old breed. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

IPO 166

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SVPG

JULY 31, 2013

If you want to see evidence of this sort of dogmatic thinking going on right now, all you need to do is look at all the people out there that built their reputation on Scrum, and how resistant and defensive they are about so many teams now moving to Kanban. Or Six Sigma. I could go on.

SCRUM 60

SCRUM Continuous Deployment Agile Lean 60

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 31, 2009

Need to build a good reputation system to rate both the startups and candidates, and then a matching engine that can make the matching. This is a machine learning problem and it can be solved as long as some relevant signals can be captured in the reputation rating. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

San Francisco 68

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

When IMVU instigated a policy of banning users from voicing their thoughts, however, even more damage was done to the company's reputation in the eyes of many. People felt themselves to be subject to censorship, a perception that continues to this day. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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