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Fear is the mind-killer

Startup Lessons Learned

As the product matured, they were able to ratchet up the quality to prevent regression on features that had been truly embraced by their customers. Starting instead from a position where feedback cycle time is the priority and allowing quality to ratchet up as the product matures provides a more natural lead in to continuous deployment.

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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. It also helps ratchet down the pressure, since so many of the interruptions that plague the typical hacker are actually the same bugs recurring over and over. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May.

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Introducing New Lean Startup Practitioners

Startup Lessons Learned

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. In building the program for this year’s Lean Startup Conference , we’ve tried to strike a balance. To give you a sense of these practitioners, we asked some our new speakers to talk about how they use Lean Startup methods. Below are three of their takes on MVPs.

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Thriving In A World Of Constant Change

Duct Tape Marketing

To some degree there is this active, like leaning in and it's changed, but it's also uncertainty. And that makes a lot of people nervous and anxious and uncertainty just ratchets up your portfolio is yours forever. April Rinne (05:38): Yes. And it's also from a leadership perspective, for sure. So partly it is seeking it out.

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Focus on awareness and metrics are keys to success

Up and Running

These same entrepreneurs read blog posts by Mark Suster, Nic Brisbourne, Eric Ries, and perhaps even Steve Blank, while wholeheartedly embracing the Lean Start-up methodology. With continuous development it can lead to percentage improvements at each step, which ratchet up and can have a profound impact on the final revenue tally.

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