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Oppose HB 1192 – The “Software Tax”

VC Adventure

My longtime friend Marion Jenkins, CEO of IT consultant QSE Technologies wrote what I think is one of the most eloquent and well thought out rebuttals to the proposed Colorado “Software Tax” (HB 1192). I run an 8-year old information technology company in Englewood, QSE Technologies, Inc.

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Lessons Learned: A new version of the Joel Test (draft)

Startup Lessons Learned

He wrote it in 2000, and as far as I know has never updated it. There are several ways to make progress evident - the Scrum team model is my current favorite. If you have a true cross-functional team, empowered (a la Scrum) to do whatever it takes to succeed its likely they will converge on the result quickly.

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Out of the Crisis #4: Carl Liebert, crisis veteran and radical optimist

Startup Lessons Learned

28:12) The pandemic as a moment to invest in people and technology, have a plan and execute. They were 90 minute, I'll call it, sprints and the team started scrumming really as soon as we got back on Saturday night. So, companies are afraid, they start cutting costs, they start squeezing their own vendors to save money.

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Behind Every Great Product

SVPG

If you think the product manager job is what’s described in a Certified Scrum Product Owner class, you almost certainly fall into this category. Then there were challenges with fulfillment logistics, difficulty maintaining DVD quality, and trying to figure out how to do all this in a way that covered costs and generated some cash.

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