[Noisebridge-discuss] Lean startup methodologies for hacker projects

[Shirt Guy]

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On 11/26/12, nullpointer <vonhessling+np at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd like to gauge the community's interest in a one-time class in
> entrepreneurship I'm considering to offer this week or next (TBD).
>
> I'm an geek entrepreneur in the Big-data space and am committed to hacker
> excellence at Noisebridge.  A lot of projects I have seen recently in Bay
> Area hackerspaces are technically brilliant but profoundly lack even a very
> basic angle on business.  I often see amazingly intelligent people fail on
> commonsense business technicalities, most often for overindulging in their
> passion for their projects without considering that how they go about some
> practicalities may make more economic sense in many cases.  Sometimes the
> way folks seem to think about money is the root of the problem -- since
> money is being used for so much evil, it is automatically associated with
> evil. In this talk I would propose to see wealth simply as a volume knob
> for your future actions.
>
> In the end, if you can do more with less, why would you not do it that way?
>
> Please reply to this email with Yay! or Nay!, along with specific topics
> that you are interested in.  I'm thinking on focusing on the latest lean
> startup methodologies, based on the recent book "The Startup Owner's
> Manual" by Steve Blank.
>
> -- nullpointer
>