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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

Go on an agile diet quickly. With a product development team that is not shipping, any agile methodology will surface major problems quickly. Labels: agile , customer development 15comments: Scott Shapiro said. People talk about funding funding funding, bootstrapping, etc., Great post! You do a great job articulating.

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New conference website, speakers, agenda

Startup Lessons Learned

Tactics were discussed out of context, and there wasnt an overarching framework for figuring out what works for what kinds of companies, industries, and stages of growth. These case studies range in size and scope: from pre-product/market fit to already exited, bootstrapped to venture-backed, solo practitioner to large organization.

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So You're Going To Start A Huge New Web Project

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And all too often in an agile approach, tweaks are made for business and dev requirements. ” Chris Coyier: I’m serving responsive layouts, use of Twitter-bootstrap, Skeleton, and custom media query based responsive layouts. There are proven development methodologies out there like Lean, Agile, Waterfall.

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Your Business “Driving Force”

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Services Marketing Help Downloads Contact Log In Your Business “Driving Force&# By brantcooper , December 7, 2009 1:46 pm In Andrew Chen’s recent post, “ Does every startup need a Steve Jobs?&# , he discusses IDEO’s “product framework for Desirability, Feasibility, and Viability.&# Chen’s descriptions of business-, engineering-, (..)

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

Im a UX and front end designer bootstrapping my own products with pure sweat equity at night but always looking for someone else to partner with(engineer/programmer)to bring these ideas life. Architecture and frameworks can/should be planned up front to at least "leave room" for things that are known to be coming at a later date.

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Startup Resources

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Design/Front End: Twitter Bootstrap : Include this in your website, and you are half finished. Express : Express is built on NodeJS framework. Web frameworks. Zend Framework (PHP). open source framework for Ruby. a PHP open source framework. high-level Python framework. Get Satisfaction. Eventbrite.