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Ways APIs have Transformed the News and Media Industry

The Startup Magazine

It has also made it easy for them to deliver content to different devices, hence reaching a large number of customers. One of the major changes has been in the use of APIs for news coverage (see 10 API options here ) which have become important in giving media companies a chance to move at the new pace and continuously adapt to the changes.

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10,000 Startups – Startup Weekend Next

Steve Blank

Today we are announcing the biggest entrepreneurial program ever launched – Startup Weekend Next. A partnership of Startup Weekend , Startup America , TechStars and Udacity , Startup Weekend Next brings four weeks of amazing hands-on training learning to build your startup to cities around the world.

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

I hope to show why lean and agile techniques actually reduce the negative impacts of technical debt and increase our ability to take advantage of its positive effects. Startups especially can benefit by using technical debt to experiment, invest in process, and increase their product development leverage.

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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. The idea is that once we move to the new system (or coding standard, or API, or.)

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Why Continuous Deployment?

Startup Lessons Learned

Of all the tactics I have advocated as part of the lean startup , none has provoked as many extreme reactions as continuous deployment , a process that allows companies to release software in minutes instead of days, weeks, or months. Glad you don't > develop software for space shuttles. Expo SF (May.

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Continuous deployment for mission-critical applications

Startup Lessons Learned

Switching these customers directly to continuous deployment sounds harder than it really is. A typical "new feature" release is, in my experience, about 80% changes to underlying APIs or architecture. In a successful startup, the development team is also growing. Thats because of the anatomy of a release.

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Lessons Learned: Product development leverage

Startup Lessons Learned

But I want to talk about a different kind of leverage, the kind that you can get in product development. Its a force that allows startups to build products at parity with much larger companies - cheaper and much faster. Its a key lean startup concept. Open APIs and data-oriented architecture (aka "web 2.0").