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Case Study: Lean UX at work

Startup Lessons Learned

Jeff will also be joining us on stage at Startup Lessons Learned 2011 , where he will be presenting a case study on his experience blending design, Lean Startup, and large company culture. Originally a waterfall shop, we transitioned to Agile development about two years ago.

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Hear how the Lean Startup began — and helped one company find success: Episode 2 on Sirius XM Channel 111: Eric Ries and Jon Sebastiani

Steve Blank

Jon Sebastiani , founder and CEO of KRAVE Jerky , a company that got its start in my class at Berkeley back in 2011 and was recently acquired by Hershey. Eric Ries co-founded Catalyst Recruiting while attending Yale, and continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com. It put us on the map.”.

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GrabCAD & Professional Communities ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

NextView originally invested in the company’s seed round in the spring of 2011 and we again participated in this latest round along with Atlas Venture. In addition to compelling founders, we were drawn to the company by their vision for a professional community for mechanical engineers and designers. million times.

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An Extensive Guide To Web Form Usability

uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com

November 8th, 2011. If designed well, the website will meet that goal and align it with the goals of the organization behind the website. As Luke Wroblewski states in his book Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks , every form exists for one of three main reasons: commerce, community or productivity. Designinformer. Newsletter.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

Because.NET is designed to extend, not disrupt. NET is designed to tightly integrate with and seamlessly extend the Microsoft stack in extremely powerful but ultimately incremental ways. March 25, 2011 at 7:00 am. March 25, 2011 at 12:58 pm. March 25, 2011 at 12:59 pm. March 25, 2011 at 1:04 pm.

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@altgate » Blog Archive » Outsourcing For Startups

Altgate

The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded). Unless you’re a designer you’re going to outsource the graphical design work you have, but remember, you get what you pay for. 99designs are simplistic.