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7 Highlights from Lean Startup Week

Startup Lessons Learned

LESSON #1: Equip your business with a portfolio map and a 21st century org chart. With industries from banking to transportation being transformed and, in some instances, undermined by new business models and technology, executives are smart to wonder, “Are we next?” Not, ‘what's the technology?’

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

Transformify

Kenya: Youth Fund Targets Young People in Business Start-Up Loans Plan. Facing a high unemployment rate among graduates, Kenya encourages entrepreneurship in an effort to create more jobs in the technology sector. 20 % of the project managers are familiar with Scrum, but there are very few product managers – less than 1% of all.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. So far, I have found "lean startup" works better with the entrepreneurs Ive talked to than "agile startup" or even "extreme startup.") Of course, many startups are capital efficient and generally frugal.

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Startup Tools

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Github - Free public repositories, collaborator management, issue tracking, wikis, downloads, code review, graphs Pivotal Tracker – Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams. Lighthouse – Issue Tracking Tool.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Updated Business tools for Startups. Every startup faces multiple choices and decisions when it comes to technology. Ad Serving Technology. Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. Banana Scrum â?? A tool simple as Scrum itself. Agile project management. Agile eLearning.

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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. Just as a business incurs some debt to take advantage of a market opportunity developers may incur technical debt to hit an important deadline.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

The programmer will probably not understand your business model, and therefore cant help you point out anything that doesnt make sense in the requirements. I am a programmer myself, but have hired other programmers to work on personal projects I have not had time to do myself or to come up to speed with different technologies.