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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. What do you think?

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Lessons Learned: Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you?

Startup Lessons Learned

Chances also increase if there seems to be a Ruby bent to the content. This is a good sign for you! :) I subscribed because I was inspired by the O'Reilly video, and feel I want to go deeper into the customer development field. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Lessons Learned: Built to learn

Startup Lessons Learned

Thats the essence of so many of the lean startup techniques Ive evangelized: customer development , the Ideas/Code/Data feedback loop , and the adaptation of agile development to the startup experience. April 21 - Agile Vancouver is sold-out (thank you all so much!). Excellent post.

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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

Startup Lessons Learned

Good article, this is exactly the reason Im still primarily a PHP developer rather than Ruby or Python. There are a lot of C and C++ programmers out there who have had to move to web based development and Python and Ruby are not C. It is one reason why I like ruby. So heres to the team that built PHP.

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Lessons Learned: What is a market? (a guide for hackers)

Startup Lessons Learned

If the company is looking for programmers, you convince them they absolutely need Ruby programmers. Now, theres nobody with 10 years experience in doing ETL QVC in Ruby, so now your 3 years is starting to look pretty good. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

interactions, widgets, effects Django – high-level Python framework Cappuccino – open source framework for app development Kodingen – cloud development environment, code editor, hosting service, collaboration platform. WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Ruby Toolbox. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Sinatra : Super easy to use, the only drawback is that you have to learn ruby setup your database. s free, supports ruby, nodejs, static files, and a few other languages. Rails (Ruby). Web Development Tools. open source framework for Ruby.