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Where Does Your Software Company Go From Here?

ReadWriteStart

The creation of a hit software is an impressive feat — especially because 21.5% of startups across industries fail within their first year of business, while 30% don’t make it past their second. After all, 50% of startups fail in their fifth year. That number jumps to 70% in year 10. Figuring Out Your Next Big Move.

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Why Build, Measure, Learn – isn’t just throwing things against the wall to see if they work

Steve Blank

It’s time to update Build, Measure, Learn to what we now know is the best way to build Lean startups. Only after shipping and attempting to sell the product would a startup hear any substantive feedback from customers. Best practices in software development started to move to agile development in the early 2000’s.

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Rally Software Acquired By CA Technologies for $480 Million

Feld Thoughts

I remember my friend Ryan Martens sitting down with me and Chris Wand around 2001 and walking us through his idea for changing the how he approached managing the software development process. In 2003 – while Agile was known – it was largely limited to ISVs and a few leading IT organizations. Get Agile with Rally Release 5.

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Q&A With The Founders Of AgileZen

Feld Thoughts

As I’ve written in the past, I encourage companies I’m an investor in to continually explore small acquisitions when entrepreneurs have created something that is on their roadmap. AgileZen was one such company and the acquisition has been a successful one for everyone. Why did you start AgileZen ?

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Twitter Link Roundup #130 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Better Agile Than Smart – [link]. Building It Is Not Enough: 5 Practical Tips On User Acquisition – [link]. Better Agile Than Smart – [link].

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“Startup Website Reviews” Screencast Series Has Moved to.

Software By Rob

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. My screencast series Startup Website Reviews took on a life of its own rather quickly. Add it to Hacker News , Reddit , Digg , or another place where startups and web entrepreneurs hang out. April 8th, 2010 | Website Reviews Building your startup?

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The Customer Development Manifesto: Reasons for the Revolution.

Steve Blank

After 20 years of working in startups, I decided to take a step back and look at the product development model I had been following and see why it usually failed to provide useful guidance in activities outside the building – sales, marketing and business development.