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4 short stories of our attempts to be lean at our startup

from Joel Gascoigne [alt+shift+b] in programming

* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * It’s no secret that I’ve personally been hugely impacted by Eric Ries’ [https://twitter.com/ericries] work and the Lean Startup [http://theleanstartup.com/] movement. Buffer [http://bufferapp.com] would not be where it is today without his
2nd Mar 2014

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