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How To Build a Web Startup – Lean LaunchPad Edition

Steve Blank

As part of our Lean LaunchPad classes at Stanford, Berkeley, Columbia and for the National Science Foundation, students build a startup in 8 weeks using Business Model Design + Customer Development. How To Build a Web Startup – The Lean LaunchPad Edition. Craft Your Company Hypotheses (use the Lean LaunchLab ).

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Lessons Learned: Lean hiring tips

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 19, 2009 Lean hiring tips In preparing for the strategy series panel this week, I have been doing some thinking about costs. Fundamentally, lean startups do more with less, because they systematically find and eliminate waste that slows down value creation. Another terrific post, Eric.

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Lessons Learned: Five Whys

Startup Lessons Learned

Wish I could figure out how to apply it to the average data warehousing project which has a single shareed database right at the heart of the entire solution. my data warehouse project has a "single shared database" in it too (the warehouse), and plenty of databases too (post-processing stages, marts). Expo SF (May.

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

Platform selection and technical design - if your business strategy is to create a low-burn, highly iterative lean startup, youd better be using foundational tools that make that easy rather than hard. Massive proprietary databases? The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

Data storage is becoming a specialized function, delegated most often to relational databases. If you are storing all of your data in a relational database, and the load on that database exceeds its capacity, there is no automatic solution that allows you to simply add more hardware and scale up.

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Lessons Learned: A new version of the Joel Test (draft)

Startup Lessons Learned

Do you have a bug database? Plus, as product development teams in lean startups become adept at learning-and-discovery (as opposed to just executing to spec), its clear that some bugs shouldnt be fixed. Just like in lean manufacturing, its generally more efficient to drive down the batch size. Its incredibly hard to do.

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Lessons Learned: The hacker's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

This is one of the bedrock practices of any lean startup , and so its a common piece of advice I give out. For this product, I later realized that I was the software architect, the frontend engineer, the backend engineer, the database administrator, the systems administrator, the QA engineer, and lastly I was the only technical support guy.