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What’s Plan B? – The Small, the Agile, and the Many

Steve Blank

But the portfolio of options available to Admiral Nimitz and President Roosevelt were not limited to battleships. As the chief engineer of the Navy, he was the master of engineering the large and the complex. The Hedge Strategy – Create “the small, the agile, and the many”. woke up on Dec. In fact, there isn’t.

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It’s Time to Play Moneyball: The Investment Readiness Level

Steve Blank

Investors sitting through Incubator or Accelerator demo days have three metrics to judge fledgling startups – 1) great looking product demos, 2) compelling PowerPoint slides, and 3) a world-class team. Teams use the Lean Startup toolkit: the Business Model Canvas + Customer Development process + Agile Engineering.

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Regaining America’s Technological Edge: Build a Civil-Military Alliance

Steve Blank

It needs to use rapid/agile innovation, disposable systems that take advantage of innovations in the commercial technology base. Not as replacements for the valuable prime contractors we have but as complementary partners who are agile, can attract the best and brightest, and are willing to bet their company on new ideas.

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The Valley Lacks Flexibility, Not Talent

ReadWriteStart

Seeing that Web developers take a lot of pride in their online portfolios and keep their LinkedIn profile up to date this just appears incredibly dated. QA can look at stuff built just hours before and give feedback by the time the engineers return to work. Most of the time buying a startup has bad consequences for the parent company.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Firebase : Are all your developers front-end engineers? Google Custom Search Engine. Google App Engine. Search Engine Optimization Tools. Google App Engine â?? Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. Twilio : Need to call/txt get a phone number from your web/mobile application?

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Cracking The Code: Software 2.0: How the use of internet is.

Cracking the Code

Companies need to be prominent on the web (see my previous post on online marketing for more details) 2) Product evaluation and testing: From seminar and demo to free online trial The second element that radically changed in Enterprise software is how people evaluate and test products. for a demo. Portfolio. (3). anecdotes. (13).

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

Nothing essential that I disagree with you in your post, but when read by other people with minimal software engineering experience, they can have too high expectations. for anyone needing user interface, design and branding for their project visit my portfolio: [link] we love to build bold identities for fresh ideas.