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Lessons Learned: Work in small batches

Startup Lessons Learned

Take the example of a design team prepping mock-ups for their development team. Give the dev team your very first sketches and let them get started. And over time, the development team may be able to start anticipating your needs. That frees up even more development resources, and so on.

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Agile Marketing: How to Implement Scrum for Digital Marketing

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Agile marketing may not be a phrase you hear often, but it’s becoming increasingly popular and important. Traditionally associated with development and product management, agile is a lightweight and, well, agile framework for software development and bringing features and products to market.

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Lessons Learned: What is customer development?

Startup Lessons Learned

This theory has become so influential that I have called it one of the three pillars of the lean startup - every bit as important as the changes in technology or the advent of agile development. You can learn about customer development, and quite a bit more, in Steves book The Four Steps to the Epiphany. Expo SF (May.

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Datablindness

Startup Lessons Learned

You constantly assess the situation, looking for hazards and timing your movements carefully to get across safely. Now that I put on events with official hosts and sponsors, my experience is different. So the product development team was busy creating lots of split-tests for lots of hypotheses. Expo SF (May.

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Lessons Learned: The hacker's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

Sometimes, a great hacker has the potential to grow into the CTO of a company, and in those cases all you need is an outside mentor who can work with them to develop those skills. At the end of the day, the product development team of a startup (large or small) is a service organization. As usual, a fantastic article.

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

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As one of the coherent commentators says below, Joel Spolsky himself laments schools teaching Java with the same basic reasoning of my article above, albeit more diplomatically stated.) .NET This is probably the stupidest article I’ve read today, and I thought Scoble was going to bring home the prize, but nope. Matt Sherman.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

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First read my short “ Version Infinity ” article. They log in to translate the documents, one at a time, marking each finished when done, which sends the file back to the company for review.” Also important: Only go for providers who have great reviews from many past customers. so any further advice is appreciated.