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10,000 Startups – Startup Weekend Next

Steve Blank

The class teaches founders how to dramatically reduce their failure rate through the combination of business model design, customer development and agile development using the Startup Owners Manual. And Udacity has put their awesome production resources behind the class and hosts the Lean LaunchPad online lectures. How it Works.

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The Rise Of Cloud Computing

YoungUpstarts

According to respondents already offering hosted cloud services, 42 per cent expected to see growth from the broader IT sector, 39 per cent from financial services and 30 per cent from retail customers. This migration to the cloud helps to meet their operational needs, as well as to reduce costs and increase agility and efficiency.

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Skills Development in Africa: How Wide is the Skills Gap?

Transformify

Scrum, Agile, Product Management. Data Warehousing, Database Administration, Game Development, Git, Google Maps API, HTML, HTML5, Internet Security, Javascript, jQuery / Prototype, Magento, Mobile App Testing. MySQL, PHP, Software Architecture, Software Development, Software Testing, SQL, Web Hosting, AngularJS.

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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. Yet other agile principles suggest the opposite, as in YAGNI and DoTheSimplestThingThatCouldPossiblyWork. Reconciling these principles requires a little humility.

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How SMBs And Startups Can Utilize The Cloud To Increase Their Bottom Line

YoungUpstarts

For many companies, cloud providers have taken the pain out of the traditional hosting model. Speed and agility have never before been so available and so crucial in business. For a growing number of reasons, cloud computing is much more affordable for businesses than dedicated servers or shared hosting. Convenience.

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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

The idea is that once we move to the new system (or coding standard, or API, or.) When I first encountered agile software techniques, in the form of extreme programming , I thought I had found the answer. Even worse, agile wasnt really helping me ship higher quality software. then all the problems will be solved.

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Even Branding Should Be Agile: An Interview With Base Creative’s Matthew Kinsman

Up and Running

Thirteen years later, Kinsman is a veteran of the industry and a thought leader advocating in Forbes for an agile approach. The agile strategy is all about brand flexibility. If you offer an online service, host webinars, have contests on social media, design a virtual tour of your facility. It makes sense.

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