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  2. Preface
  3. Chapter One
    1. Chapter One, Section One
    2. Chapter One, Section Two
  4. Chapter Two
    1. Chapter Two, Section One
  5. Sample Books
  6. Leanpub Book Format
    1. Code Samples
    2. Inserting Images
    3. Links Become Footnotes
    4. Known Isssues
  7. October 2007
    1. Welcome
    2. Updating dynamic DNS on Amazon EC2
    3. Ruby unit test command line options
    4. updating rdig on deploy
    5. running tests on deploy
    6. Setting up multiple asset hosts in Rails
    7. Serving local files while using an asset host
  8. November 2007
    1. Synching Your Amazon S3 Asset Host using Capistrano
    2. Amazon S3, Ruby and Rails talk
  9. December 2007
    1. synch s3 host plugin update
    2. Amazon S3, Ruby and Rails slides
    3. s3sh demo script
    4. S3Syncer Code
    5. S3Syncer demo
    6. RubyCamp Vancouver
    7. Fun with Single Table Inheritance
  10. January 2008
    1. Adding json responses to all of your controller actions
    2. Rubyize this: Live in Vancouver. Refactoring #1.
    3. Rubyize This: Live in Vancouver. Refactoring #3
    4. Rubyize This: Live in Vancouver. Refactoring #2
  11. May 2008
    1. Searching Beast and WordPress from a Rails app
    2. The Search Engine
    3. Searching the Beast Forum
    4. Searching the WordPress Blog
    5. The FullTextSearch mixin
  12. April 2009
    1. The S3 Cookbook
    2. I'll be speaking at RailsConf
  13. June 2010
    1. The S3 Cookbook
    2. Searching Beast and WordPress from a Rails app
    3. The Search Engine
    4. Searching the Beast Forum
    5. Searching the WordPress Blog
    6. The FullTextSearch mixin
    7. I'll be speaking at RailsConf
    8. Adding json responses to all of your controller actions
    9. RubyCamp Vancouver
    10. Rubyize this: Live in Vancouver. Refactoring #1.
    11. Rubyize This: Live in Vancouver. Refactoring #2
    12. Rubyize This: Live in Vancouver. Refactoring #3
    13. Fun with Single Table Inheritance
    14. Amazon S3, Ruby and Rails slides
    15. s3sh demo script
    16. S3Syncer Code
    17. S3Syncer demo
  14. July 2010
    1. How scottpatten.ca came to be
    2. My Git Aliases
  15. August 2010
    1. Validating with Validatious: A Quick Tutorial
    2. A quick intro to Validatious
    3. The Gotcha
    4. Validating on blur
    5. Putting validations closer to the input field
    6. Validating via Javascript
    7. Bringing it home
    8. Custom Validators with Validatious
    9. The Myth of the Zone
  16. September 2010
    1. SLL Subscribers Vs Time
  17. May 2011
    1. Booting an Alestic EC2 Image with a Larger Root Disk
    2. How big is a Googol, anyway?
    3. The number of grains of sand on the earth.
    4. How many stars are there?
    5. How many atoms are in the universe?
    6. How many particles are in the universe?
    7. Packing the universe with sand
    8. What did I miss?
  18. November 2011
    1. Multiple Google Analytics Tracking Codes on one Page
    2. Opening up ports to your security group on EC2
    3. Speeding up Jekyll Generation
  19. December 2011
    1. Getting up and running with Amber
    2. Getting it on your machine
    3. Creating Hello World
    4. Hooking up a form
    5. Further Reading
  20. August 2008
    1. Paul Graham on fundraising
    2. Refactoring for TDD and interaction design
  21. September 2008
    1. Test-Driven Development as andon cord
    2. Just-In-Time Scalability
    3. On deployment
    4. Not crossing the chasm
    5. Ideas. Code. Data. Implement. Measure. Learn
    6. Great open source scalability tools from Danga
    7. Greasemonkey compiler
    8. Customer Development Engineering
    9. The lean startup
    10. Waves of technology platforms
    11. Seth Godin: How often should you publish?
    12. Smarticus --- 10 things you could be doing to your code right now
    13. A new version of the Joel Test (draft)
    14. Marc Prensky's Weblog: Cell Phones in Class
    15. Andrew Chen: Growing renewable audiences
    16. SEM on five dollars a day
    17. How to listen to customers, and not just the loud people
    18. The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time
    19. How to Usability Test your Site for Free
    20. How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone
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    1. Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you?
    2. Thoughts on scientific product development
    3. The three drivers of growth for your business model. Choose one.
    4. You don't need as many tools as you think
  23. September 2008
    1. The lean startup comes to Stanford
    2. Q&A with an actual reader
  24. October 2008
    1. What does a startup CTO actually do?
    2. About the author
    3. The product manager's lament
    4. When NOT to listen to your users; when NOT to rely on split-tests
    5. The App Store after the gold rush
    6. Three decisions to make on virtual goods
    7. The engineering manager's lament
    8. Lean startups vs lean companies
    9. Chuck's Code & Learning: Learning to write tests that matter
    10. A hierarchy of pitches
    11. John Doerr's 10 lean startup tips
  25. November 2008
    1. Principles of Lean Startups, presentation for Maples Investments
    2. Getting educated about advertising, agencies, and media buyers
    3. Learning from Obama: maneuver warfare on the campaign trail
    4. Stevey's Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile
    5. Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online service, step-by-step
    6. What is customer development?
    7. Where did Silicon Valley come from?
    8. Five Whys
    9. The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: part one
    10. The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: part two
    11. ScienceDaily: Corporate culture is most important factor in driving innovation
    12. Lo, my 1032 subscribers, who are you?
    13. Net Promoter Score: an operational tool to measure customer satisfaction
    14. The ABCDEF's of conducting a technical interview
  26. December 2008
    1. The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: part three
    2. Getting started with split-testing
    3. The hacker's lament
    4. Continuous integration step-by-step
    5. Engagement loops: beyond viral
    6. Assessing fit with the Wisdom of Crowds
  27. January 2009
    1. Happy new year
    2. Lessons Learned on Mashable today
    3. Sharding for startups
    4. Lessons Learned office hours
    5. CPI \textgreater {
    6. Why PHP won
    7. Lean hiring tips
    8. Three freemium strategies
    9. Refactoring yourself out of business
    10. Achieving a failure
  28. February 2009
    1. The lean startup @ Web 2.0 Expo (and a call for help)
    2. Continuous deployment and continuous learning
    3. The free software hiring advantage
    4. You buy virtual goods
    5. What is a market? (a guide for hackers)
    6. Continuous deployment with downloads
    7. Work in small batches
  29. February 2009
    1. Please teach kids programming, Mr. President
    2. The lean startup at UC Berkeley Haas School of Business
  30. March 2009
    1. Throwing away working code
    2. Employees should be masters of their own time
    3. Lo, my 2295 subscribers, who are you?
    4. Don't launch
    5. Combining agile development with customer development
    6. Join the Lean Startup discussion at Web 2.0 Expo for free
    7. How to build companies that matter (the lean startup on O'Reilly Radar)
    8. Venture Hacks interview: "What is the minimum viable product?"
    9. The metrics and levers of engagement, presentation on Engagement Loops for Facebook Developer Garage SF
    10. The Lean Startup at Agile Vancouver April 21st
    11. Cash is not king
  31. iterations = runway / speed of each iteration
    1. The Lean Startup workshop coming soon
  32. April 2009
    1. Web 2.0 Expo session followup
    2. Built to learn
    3. Validated learning about customers
    4. Product development leverage
    5. Speaking with Steve Blank at startup2startup; webcast on May 1; other upcoming events
  33. May 2009
    1. Lean Startup webcast post-game
    2. Videos galore
    3. More video "what to do if customers don't like your (initial) product" plus full webcast
    4. Fear is the mind-killer
    5. The Lean Startup Workshop - now an O'Reilly Master Class
    6. Last chance to register for The Lean Startup at HP on May 21
    7. The Lean Startup at SIPA follow-up
    8. Austin: the Lean Startup tour continues
  34. June 2009
    1. It's a startup, not a spreadsheet
    2. Datablindness
    3. The Lean Startup Tokyo edition
    4. Lean Startup Workshop scholarship program
    5. Why Continuous Deployment?
    6. Pivot, don't jump to a new vision
    7. Join the lean startup discussion at Facebook on Thursday
  35. July 2009
    1. How to conduct a Five Whys root cause analysis
    2. Lean Startup fbFund wrap-up
    3. Lean Startup fbFund slides and video
    4. 10 years of entrepreneurship
    5. The Principles of Product Development Flow
    6. Embrace technical debt
    7. Techstars brings The Lean Startup to Boulder
    8. A new way to recruit for (and find) startup jobs
  36. August 2009
    1. The Steve Jobs method
    2. Minimum Viable Product: a guide
    3. Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and what's changed since then)
    4. Introducing the Lean Startup Cohort subscription program
    5. Fall speaking tour starts tomorrow
    6. The Promise of the Lean Startup
    7. Marching through quicksand
    8. Building a new startup hub
  37. September 2009
    1. Don't be the Ice Cream Glove
    2. What would you want to tell Washington DC about startups?
    3. Happy blogiversary (my present: a brand new URL)
    4. The cardinal sin of community management
    5. International tour about to begin
    6. Gov 2.0 Summit wrap-up
    7. Testing the new Disqus comment system
    8. Support the Startup Founders Visa with a tweet
    9. Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (and a request for help)
  38. October 2009
    1. The curse of prevention
    2. A large batch of videos, slides, and audio
    3. Innovation inside the box
    4. Inc Magazine on Minimum Viable Product (and a response)
    5. Myth: Entrepreneurship Will Make You Rich
    6. Case Study: Using an LOI to get customer feedback on a minimum viable product
    7. A real Customer Advisory Board
  39. November 2009
    1. New York: three straight days of Lean Startup (two of which are free)
  40. December 2009
    1. Business ecology and the four customer currencies
    2. What is Lean about the Lean Startup?
    3. Why vanity metrics are dangerous
    4. Continuous deployment for mission-critical applications
  41. January 2010
    1. Towards a new entrepreneurship
    2. Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? (for Harvard Business Review)
    3. Amazing lean startup resources
    4. Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Harvard Business Review)
    5. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases non-events
    6. Lo, my 18891 subscribers, who are you?
  42. February 2010
    1. Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, and more
    2. Tell your Startup Visa story
    3. Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Review)
    4. Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business)
    5. Kiwi lean startup + Australia next
  43. March 2010
    1. Startup Visa update
    2. Startup Lessons Learned - the Conference (April 23, 2010 in SF)
    3. For Startups, How Much Process Is Too Much? (for Harvard Business Review)
    4. The new startup arms race (for Huffington Post)
    5. Speed up or slow down? (for Harvard Business Review)
    6. Two new scholarship programs for lean startups
    7. New conference website, speakers, agenda
  44. April 2010
    1. Interviews
    2. Six streaming locations
    3. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond"
    4. Learning is better than optimization (the local maximum problem)
    5. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets
    6. The Lean Startup Intensive at Web 2.0 Expo SF (May 3, 2010)
    7. Sneak preview, Grockit
    8. Sneak preview, KISSmetrics (and more)
    9. Four myths about the Lean Startup
    10. Lean Enterprise Institute webinar, April 28
    11. Video update on the Startup Visa Act
  45. May 2010
    1. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0 Expo
    2. Philosophy Helps Start-Ups Move Faster (WSJ on the Lean Startup)
    3. Thank you
  46. June 2010
    1. The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business Review)
    2. No departments
    3. What is a startup?
  47. July 2010
    1. The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development
    2. Founder personalities and the "first-class man" theory of management
    3. Some IPO speculation
    4. Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot
  48. August 2010
    1. Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium
    2. SXSW
  49. September 2010
    1. Lo, my 57692 subscribers, who are you?
    2. The Superbowl ad test
    3. The visionary's lament
    4. Good enough never is (or is it?)
  50. October 2010
    1. Stop lying on stage
    2. The Lean Startup Bundle
    3. Case Study: Rapid iteration with hardware
  51. November 2010
    1. Why do we do this?
  52. January 2011
    1. 2011
    2. Why we need to teach MBA's about modern entrepreneurship (and what Harvard Business School is doing about it)
    3. Case Study: UX, Design, and Food on the Table
    4. Lean Startup junkies
  53. February 2011
    1. A month is fifteen weekends
  54. March 2011
    1. The Lean Startup SXSW + bundle + tournament
    2. SXSW updates
    3. New York Lean Startup Week
  55. April 2011
    1. The real entrepreneurs of New York City
    2. Beyond the garage
  56. May 2011
    1. New speakers + Ignite + streaming locations
    2. Get the very first copy of the Lean Startup Book
    3. Case Study: Lean UX at work
    4. This Weekend
    5. Startup Lessons Learned 2011 streaming live
  57. June 2011
    1. Appsumo Action Video
    2. Open Innovation in DC
  58. July 2011
    1. The Lean Startup Book is here
    2. Venture Deals
  59. August 2011
    1. Winter is coming
    2. The ink is on the dead trees
  60. September 2011
    1. The Last Lean Startup Bundle: claim $3,000,000 in prizes
    2. The power of small batches
    3. The Lean Startup Book Tour
    4. Updates from the road
    5. Best. Birthday. Ever.
  61. October 2011
    1. Case Study: The Nordstrom Innovation Lab
  62. November 2011
    1. That old-time startup religion
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    1. STARTUP IS VISION
  64. January 2012
    1. London Calling

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