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Accelerating Technology Change and Continuous Learning

Feld Thoughts

Though the notion of a “lean startup” that uses both Agile and Customer Development approaches is ostensibly strongly customer focused, the purpose of these methodologies is for the company to find an maximize its market, not specifically to optimize the user experience. I think he totally nails it. What do you think?

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

blog.expensify.com

But my coders will beat up your coders, any day of the week. No offense, but I honestly think you have no idea what you’re talking about, and your irrational language biases are probably making you lose some really good coders. It’s an *freaking open source*.net Thanks ez, whoever you are!

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On deployment

Startup Lessons Learned

And the same is true in reverse - a lone brilliant coder can build a great widget, but it takes a system of people working well together to produce consistently great results. Waves of technology platforms The lean startup Customer Development Engineering Greasemonkey compiler Great open source scalability tools from Danga Ideas.

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HOW TO: Hire the Perfect CTO

mashable.com

Today, CTOs are multi-taskers that aren’t just coders locked in some basement — they play a vital role in a tech company’s strategic plan and growth. It will be important that your CTO can execute on big projects, too, hacking away to build an amazing product that is agile. Danny Wong , Blank Label Group, Inc.

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How to Flip Your Startup in 5 Steps

ReadWriteStart

Flip startups are agile startups that aim to exit quickly. All these factors combined make it more likely for a single coder to create a one-time hit. The development part is similar to a lean startup: you want to be agile. The development part is similar to a lean startup: you want to be agile.

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Women 2.0 » FounderDating: How I Found My Co-Founder

www.women2.org

I first spent time trying to build it myself leveraging open source tools, applying my skills from a single CS class, and trying to be an autodidactic coder. Devs will get the chance to meet other coders (experienced and aspiring) and work in groups of 1-3 to make some wicked apps. However, I needed to actually build it!

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

Matt Jones (2010-06-20) # Derek: Interesting article - Im not sure if you realize it, but youve basically described what the Agile community calls "User Stories" You may also want to look into tools like Pivotal Tracker for keeping track of stories and prioritizing / scheduling them. BTW: great keynote at Railsconf!