Eric Ries
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I went many places doing research for my new book including factories. I want to tell you what I learned on one of these visits.1/22
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No-code is continuing to grow, and allowing more and more entrepreneurs to test ideas quickly and grow sustainably. If you have an idea for a web app you want to build, check out
@Bubble
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This is still the tweet of the day
House Rs voted over 60x to repeal Obamacare while Obama was president. They voted 0 times on it under Trump, and are now ready to move on.
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I can't believe we call them driverless cars, knowing they were once called horseless carriages.
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I've been working on a new startup behind the scenes for several years. I'm excited to finally be able to share it:
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This kind of says it all, doesn't it?
I cannot believe I live in a country that forced Barack Obama to show his birth certificate but won't make Donald Trump show his taxes.
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The Long-Term Stock Exchange is closed after its first full day of trading. You can see a summary of what was traded here (Notional Value Summary is very similar to GMV):
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Would you do me a favor and read + retweet this article about the crisis in Puerto Rico? Thank you
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Are you a US citizen who wants an easy way to be heard by Congress? I'm looking for alpha testers for a new app. @ me if interested
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Our
@botresist
servers are melting down under the load. About to cross 10000 faxes to Congress for just today. Bear with us!
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Appreciate the support of the whole YC community in achieving this milestone
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1/I've been working on an idea to stop abusive messages on social media without the cooperation of the platforms themselves. I'm looking for software engineers to work on a prototype. I can provide initial funding or a stipend if needed.
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Rest In Peace one of the last true giants of the management field:
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LTSE built a free, visual tool to help founders understand, manage and extend cash runway. Chime in
@ProductHunt
!
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"Almost all CEOs know where the problems are, but only the truly elite ones run towards the fear." Great post from
@bhorowitz
explaining how to take on serious problems
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I have never felt anything like this before. I've had my preferred candidate lose, but this is totally different.
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To all of my fellow citizens feeling scared and marginalized right now, I want to say: I am with you and will keep fighting
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These lists are unbelievable. If you published these in 2007 as a sci-fi short story in diary format, it would have read as a dystopia
Experts in authoritarianism advise to keep a list of things subtly changing around you so you'll...
Week 33 (1/2):
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Why doesn't twitter sell news subscriptions? If I could bypass paywalls in twitter I'd never use any other app or browser
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Have always enjoyed working with my friends at
@pivotal
and
@pivotallabs
& their clients
Pivotal Teams With Lean Startup Founder Eric Ries To Help Big Companies Get More Innovative | TechCrunch
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Today, the Long-Term Stock Exchange welcomes
@Twilio
and
@Asana
as the first two companies to list on the exchange. I’m thrilled to join hands with these leaders who are champions of a new way of business.
#AsanaxLTSE
#TwilioxLTSE
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Compensation is your startup’s greatest expense - don’t wing it. Our new tool Hiringplan is live on
@ProductHunt
.
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It's heartbreaking that schools will not be able to reopen in the fall, but the sooner we have a reality check about this, the sooner we can get to helping the millions of working families that will need assistance. Kids and parents both
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Must-read. Jocelyn is my favorite new writer about software engineering:
http://t.co/Xzuz2OtJwB
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When companies are distracted from serving customers, everyone makes less money. That's why we're building the LTSE.
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Have questions about LTSE and what the SEC approval as a national securities exchange means? I’m answering questions on HN:
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I'm really looking forward to tweeting about startups and not politics for a while
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"If you don’t methodically set your culture, then two-thirds of it will end up being accidental and the rest will be a mistake." Love this quote from
@bhorowitz
and highly recommend his new book that dives into this topic in more detail, coming out 10/29
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If you just do the minimum and iterate blindly, you're almost sure to get stuck in a local maximum. Experimentation tied to vision is key
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This research seems like the tip of a very interesting iceberg
Anybody chasing a User Active Minutes metric should spend time with this chart. It's a trap!
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My heart goes out to all the employees of OpenAI who are caught in the crossfire
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Has anyone tried
http://t.co/y5GYD9g83P
to validate an idea in 5 minutes? Curious if it worked for you.
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There's almost nothing I wouldn't do if asked to help a candidate running against someone who voted for today's AHCA bill
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Committees are horrible
“You know how many committees we have at Apple? Zero. We are organized like a startup.”
—Steve Jobs via
@AngelList
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I remember talking to people at FB about this almost ten years ago. Amazing to see it scale:
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Shout out to my friends at Adobe
Adobe's pivot to SaaS is one of the most impressive tech stories that I haven't heard many talk about. Now a 110+ billion dollar company ($20b more than Salesforce for context).
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Browser cache is fhe World's largest distributed datastore - only a matter of time before someone wires it up with p2p
“Planktos enables websites to serve their static content over bittorrent from the users of the website”
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Please let this be true. vaccination theory of Trump
US democracy will survive Trump and come out stronger for the test. Americans are rediscovering what they took for granted for too long.
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It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory. - Peter Drucker
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For those who couldn't get into the room, full video of today's
#LeanStartup
#sxsw
sessions will be available
@Udemy
http://t.co/PJaJSd5P
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There’s an unprecedented opportunity to jumpstart the recovery and invest in our future by reskilling America and insourcing manufacturing of critical medical equipment. Factories are idle but ready to work
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I’m mostly off twitter and social media as part of an effort to preserve my sanity. I just realized I signed off without letting anyone know, so I’m missing a lot of messages. To reach me, please use email. Thanks!
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A guide to cap tables for the busy founder:
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Dune, 50 years on: how a science fiction novel changed the world
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I'm working on a new book about everything I've learned since
#LeanStartup
was published in 2011.
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This bill would be especially terrible for entrepreneurs, in case that's not obvious
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Most product teams have absolutely no idea if they are busy making their products better or worse
The only thing we actually KNOW about building digital products is that we DON’T KNOW HOW TO BUILD digital products. It’s time we learn. 22
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I first wrote about this idea five years ago. Now it's become a real company:
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The LTSE is becoming a real option for great companies to be public without the short-term pressure:
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A pivot is a change in strategy without a change in vision. You cannot have a pivot without vision (that's just wandering around).
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"Please excuse me while I go pivot." Scott Adams on Silicon Valley:
http://t.co/ekVBGsbq70
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I'm proud to be matching donations to support the inspiring
@gazaskygeeks
startup community. Deadline is today:
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We are going through the worst economic downturn since the great depression.
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OMG this took so much courage to write
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For those that are curious what I've been up to the last two years, a glimpse offered in current issue of
@BW
:
http://t.co/SvJNr0O6dT
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I believe
@pmarca
predicted this. All the failed dotcom ideas are coming back:
http://t.co/PfhPPC4HR4
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OMG first episode of "Silicon Valley" is titled Minimum Viable Product, now I'm nervous. Kudos
@MikeJudge
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I was once on TV on Fox Business predicting this would happen - they weren't too pleased:
http://t.co/TelpM8maRX
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Not formally announced yet, but can you help me beta test the website for my new book? Let me know if it works:
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A Silicon Valley startup guru is building a new stock exchange designed to stop destructive short-term thinking
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A minimum viable product is not necessarily cheaper. In many industries an expensive product is easier and faster to make.
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The Lean Startup eBook is available for $2.99 today. You can hear me read an excerpt and choose where to buy it here:
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Amazing primer on AI for a non-technical audience
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@andrewchen
Harvard Biz Press has a group that turns business books into slideware so they can get business people to read it
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If you are willing to attack one minority group, who's next? My grandparents always made sure I understood this.
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1/incredible what 1reporter can dig up in a few hours. What if we had more than just
@Fahrenthold
on this?
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