Hearpreneur

APRIL 17, 2022

Being in love with your business, when you’re an entrepreneur, is even better. Although there are days when tossing in your hat seems like a viable option, remembering how much you love your “job” can quickly snap an entrepreneur out of that mentality. What I love about being an entrepreneur is that I’m able to simplify many things.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2009

It’s important to invest in good architecture so that your website will scale once customers arrive. If you make that investment, and then customers arrive, and the site stays up, most companies will reward the people who built the architecture and, thus, prevented the scaling problems. Why do they harbor that paranoia?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

If youre trying to design an architecture to maximize agility, how can that work if some people are working in TDD and others not? That means knowing whats written and whats not, what the architecture can and cant support, and how long it would take to build something new. But along the way, something strange happened.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

But it’s rare that an entrepreneur or business owner doesn’t leverage their background in some way to launch their business. No one even “born entrepreneurs”aren’t born as CEOs. No one even “born entrepreneurs”aren’t born as CEOs. It’s usually a process.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 31, 2018

In many respects, it’s the leanness, flexibility and agility of startups that help them become successful,” he says. Bo Zou recently spoke with Young Upstarts about digital transformation, user experience and what it means to entrepreneurs intent on building their own brands. Feng Shui is much more than just a philosophy.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 5, 2024

We asked entrepreneurs how they prepare for a bad economy and here are the responses: #1- By being proactive and adaptable Photo Credit: Ben Pu At ShipSage, we prioritize building a resilient business model that can withstand economic fluctuations. Thanks to David Reyes, Reyes Financial Architecture ! Thanks to Mathias Ahlgren, W ! #8-Planning

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 30, 2009

Even though some aspects of the product were eventually vindicated as good ones, the underlying architecture suffered from hard-to-change assumptions. Even a great architecture becomes inflexible. This is why agility is such a prized quality in product development. Once again, a fantastic post. Great post! I cant agree more.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

We wanted an agile approach that would allow us to build our software architecture as we needed it, without downtime, but also without large amounts of up-front cost. You can also download our presentation, " Just-In-Time Scalability: Agile Methods to Support Massive Growth." Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Ha.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 14, 2014

As companies strive to stay agile and innovative, they’ve discovered that units of 8 to 12 people work best as the natural size of high-performance teams. For these reasons, two-pizza teams are usually more agile and responsive than their bloated peers. And during the conversation, there are also fewer arguments and misunderstandings.

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Transformify

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Commenced in July 2017, The Youth Enterprise Development Fund provides start-up loans to help young entrepreneurs fund their businesses at a very early stage. Scrum, Agile, Product Management. MySQL, PHP, Software Architecture, Software Development, Software Testing, SQL, Web Hosting, AngularJS. Project/ Product Management.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

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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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

Being in love with your business, when you’re an entrepreneur, is even better. Although there are days when tossing in your hat seems like a viable option, remembering how much you love your “job” can quickly snap an entrepreneur out of that mentality. We asked some entrepreneurs what they loved about “being their own boss.”. #1

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2010

For the business leaders I know, these priorities almost always include the following: Business agility. Implicit in agility is increased productivity on change initiatives. Too many applications out there today are “silos,” built outside the IT organization without an overall architecture, or even a maintenance plan.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

In addition to presenting the IMVU case, we tried for the first time to do an overview of a software engineering methodology that integrates practices from agile software development with Steves method of Customer Development. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Expo SF (May.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 4, 2017

“The future is inherently unpredictable,” insists the small company, spurred on by Lean and Agile mindsets. Yet, it’s the job of a Product Manager at that mid-sized company to invent, discover, design, implement, and nurture those products — something that most entrepreneurs will never succeed at. Recruiting.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 13, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, July 13, 2009 The Principles of Product Development Flow If youve ever wondered why agile or lean development techniques work, The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development by Donald G. Reinertsen is the book for you. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

When I first encountered agile software techniques, in the form of extreme programming , I thought I had found the answer. I explained it to people this way: agile lets you make the trade-offs visible to whole company, so that they can make informed choices. Even worse, agile wasnt really helping me ship higher quality software.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, January 4, 2009 Sharding for startups The most important aspect of a scalable web architecture is data partitioning. So far, this is just a summary of what all of us who have attempted to build web-scale architectures considers obvious. Support multiple sharding schemes. Easy to understand.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 29, 2008

The six key attributes spell ABCDEF: Agility. When talking about their past experience, candidates with agility will know why they did what they did in a given situation. To probe for agility, you have to ask the candidate questions involving something that they know little about. At the time, I was a die-heard Java zealot.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

When I tell this story to entrepreneurs and big-company types alike, I sometimes get this response: "well, sure, if you start out with all those great tools, processes and TDD from the beginning, thats easy! Wed never heard of five whys, and we had plenty of "agile skeptics" on the team. One last comment. Expo SF (May.

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www.bothsidesofthetable.com

MAY 13, 2012

Entrepreneur DNA. Entrepreneur turned VC. Your deepest thinkers on technology architecture are seldom good team leaders. They know how to estimate work units, how to manage the agile development process and how to get the most out of their teams. Entrepreneur Advice (3). Start-up Advice. Raising Venture Capital.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

We wanted to give you a rundown of what’s in store, along with particular insight into two of the workshops we’re most excited to have lined up for Gold and VIP attendee s—one session with Jez Humble on implementing continuous delivery and one with Alistair Croll on Lean analytics for corporate entrepreneurs.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

He complemented their elegantly designed minicomputers and made some astute comment about their architecture (now I’m rolling my eyes, their computers were dinosaurs) and asked who were the brilliant designers. were the first computer entrepreneurs here. I was surprised to see that they were in the room. So, here is my assignment.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

I know them right away - we can talk high-level architecture all the way down to the bits-and-bytes of his system. When the architecture needs modifying - why do we need a meeting? Building a good application architecture is not just coding. Its common to find a hacker at the heart of almost any successful technology company.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Operating across varied industries, Fractional CMOs offer a fresh, tailored approach, helping businesses to be more agile, adaptive, and strategic in their planning Questions I ask Nicole Bernard [00:46] What exactly is a fractional CMO? She also hosts a popular podcast called Bubbles and Biz and is a contributing writer to entrepreneur.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 17, 2010

I suggested that we change the underlying architecture of our UI system so that the artists would be able to build their own UI pieces themselves and then integrate them into the product without requiring new code every time. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ▼ June (3) What is a startup? Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

You dont need to invent a new architecture, and you dont need to even build your architecture up-front. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Ha. Lean Startup Circle - a mailing list of dedicated and helpful entrepreneurs.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 28, 2009

The engineering team has decided its reached a breaking point, and is taking several weeks to bring it up to modern standards, including unit tests, getting started with continuous integration , and a new MVC architecture. On the other, they already have a team fully engaged on making their product architecture better. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 28, 2009

A typical "new feature" release is, in my experience, about 80% changes to underlying APIs or architecture. Some of these benefits are shared by agile systems which have continuous integration but large batch releases, but others are unique to continuous deployment. Thats because of the anatomy of a release. I just dont believe it.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

And as Kapor himself points out, the core ideas have even older origins: The Roman architecture critic Vitruvius advanced the notion that well-designed buildings were those which exhibited firmness, commodity, and delight. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Expo SF (May.

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

a New York-based sizzle reel production company specializing in promotional videos for PR and marketing professionals, and the Young Entrepreneur Council. I asked a panel of successful young entrepreneurs what fledging tech startups should be looking for in a CTO hire to ensure founders get the right person for the job.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

Both sides start to think of their point of view in moralistic terms: “those guys don’t see the economic value of fast action, they only care about their precious architecture diagrams&# or “those guys are sloppy and have no professional pride.&# Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Ha. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 16, 2009

This is one of the most powerful aspects of web architecture, and it often gets lost in other client-server programming paradigms. As you suggest, Thought Experiment Part II is going to involve lots of changes to the classic MMO architecture that makes it more like the web. Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Ha.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2014

Bring Agile to the Whole Organization – crowdspring.co/1A49uxC. LEGO Architecture Studio Kit | Design Milk – crowdspring.co/1xv1QLO. How to Prepare for the Fourth Quarter Slaughter – crowdspring.co/1yKsu0j. 10 Ways to Improve Internal Communication (Infographic) – crowdspring.co/1ESotL5.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Someone has managed to convince themselves that they have to do their big architecture change in one fell swoop. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Ha. Lots of engineers are busy checking in and deploying their work.

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femgineer.com

JULY 18, 2010

We engineers know that need to be agile in a startup and be able to scrap code and rebuild, but want we don’t want is to have a founder who manic or aimless. Its up to the entrepreneur to unleash their potential to accomplish great feats together. Sweat equity or salary?

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andrewchenblog.com

MARCH 10, 2010

For entrepreneurs out there who are building metrics-driven products but also committed to a great user experience, I would love to hear when and how you pay down the product design debt. By the way, to mitigate this problem, there's already a discipline called “Information Architecture&#. what a coincidence. See [link].

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