Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 12, 2012

All you old software development types will recognize the analogy to the traditional two year “waterfall model” of software development, which has been totally replaced with the Agile iterative methodology. The biggest advantages you have as a startup are speed and agility. Marty Zwilling.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 12, 2017

From marketing to product development, to new software tools and communications, the list is almost endless as to the digital transformations taking place. Everypixel: Stock image search engine. Everypixel is an image search engine for quality stock images. PSL: Agile Software Development for Efficient Business.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 10, 2012

They need to be able to know the key Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder , figure out where/when/how to bring on development talent ( Hiring Developers Before Product/Market Fit? , Another avenue is looking for CTOs/VP Engineering via LinkedIn. The last 10% takes the other 90%.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

All you old software development types will recognize the analogy to the traditional two year “waterfall model” of software development, which has been totally replaced with the Agile iterative methodology. With a minimum viable product, your startup remains much more agile.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 30, 2016

When a project owner seeks for a software development company, they often mention in their inquiries that they want to deal with a very professional developer. But what kind of service do they actually want their developers to provide? Professional software developers. Professional project owner. Conclusion.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 13, 2016

It was adopted in the software development industry. It follows a linear, sequential process and is the most common version of the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) for IT and software engineering projects. Waterfall defines all software requirements upfront. Agile methodology. Change is embraced.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2018

If you want to take your business to the next level, you should consider app development. Either way, custom software development is an effective way to build brand awareness and give your business a competitive edge. The best approach to hire a developer for your app project is to research professionals online.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 15, 2014

Innovative technology helps us serve our world more effectively, and businesses have the potential to develop and deploy these solutions. Constructing software to make your vision a reality can be incredibly rewarding but also quite challenging. Create accessible technology.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 4, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, April 4, 2010 Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Kent Beck will give the opening keynote at the Startup Lessons Learned conference on April 23. Kent is a significant figure in the field of software development. Kent is a significant figure in the field of software development.

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

You always want to be careful with how tightly you schedule things to make sure you stay agile and responsive to evolving business needs, but you also need to make sure your overall journey makes sense and that you’re building things in the right order, as well as taking on risks in a measured way. We did that for a lot of reasons.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 16, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, March 16, 2009 Combining agile development with customer development Today I read an excellent blog post that I just had to share. Jim Murphy is a long-time agile practitioner in startups. But startups sometimes have trouble applying agile successfully.

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ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

JULY 11, 2012

Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover several topics including agile software development, software startups, web 2.0, Strategic Agile Thinking: Balancing Value, Innovation and Research. 2) The agile "happy place". Agile teams sprint when value is known, implementation is low risk.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

For example, if you’re building a mobile app, then the key activities are: app software development, user interface design and demand creation skills. For medical devices it might be mechanical engineering, clinical trials, regulatory approval, freedom to operate (intellectual property) and figuring out a reimbursement strategy.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. Can this methodology be used for startups that are not exclusively about software?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

41:00 Transitioning from software to writing. 42:20 Did agile development influence you? 46:50 Engines of Growth. 46:50 Engines of Growth. 1:05:35 Middle class job of the next generation: software development! 36:30 Eric: Social media is great for people with social capital. 46:18 iOS Vs. Android.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 13, 2010

I’ve spent the last week in Santiago, a guest of Professor Cristóbal García at the Catholic University of Chile as part of Stanford’s Engineering Technology Venture Program. The objective of this course is that groups of students finish with a completed software product that has real customers and an identified market.

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Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2015

Back then, an entrepreneur used a serial product development process that proceeded step-by-step with little if any customer feedback. Best practices in software development started to move to agile development in the early 2000’s. Microsoft Windows 3.0). Lessons Learned.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

I was recently a member of a really great engineering team which also happened to be made up of all women. For a stretch of around six months, there were between four and five engineers on the team, all of us women. Our program manager was also a woman and for part of the time our manager was a woman.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2014

“Customer Development” to test the hypotheses outside the building and. Agile Engineering” to have teams prototype, test, and iterate their idea while discovering if they have a profitable business model. Teams talk to 10-15 customers a week and make a minimum of 100 customer visits.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

All you old software development types will recognize the analogy to the traditional two year “waterfall model” of software development, which has been totally replaced with the Agile iterative methodology. The biggest advantage you have as a startup is to be agile. Use social networking to start the wave.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 20, 2017

The software development landscape has changed a lot in that time, but time-honored principles remain so. Here’s my take on an updated Joel Test for 2017, based on my career experience and how we build software at VidiGuard. Without a doubt, some of my changes draw from Agile methodologies (a good idea, but a terrible religion).

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 11, 2010

Most of the companies we invest in release software at least once a month. And, rather than have it be an “engineering thing”, you can (and should) make it a full company thing. As I looked through the list of things that the various teams created, I got chills of excitement. Some release weekly, or even daily.

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femgineer.com

JULY 18, 2010

HOME About the Femgineer Speaking Engagements Reading List Recruiting Startup Engineers With the startup market taking off, there is always a clamor to find good engineers, developers, and designers. Engineers love to build, solve tough problems, and make progress. When to start recruiting? Sweat equity or salary?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 25, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, March 25, 2009 The Lean Startup at Agile Vancouver April 21st A surprising number of respondents in the latest Lessons Learned survey hail from one of the flourishing startup hubs in Canada. This workshop brings together leading thinkers from Lean Production and Lean software. Thank you so much!)

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Transformify

MAY 28, 2018

About us At Scopic Software, we have over 250 employees in over 30 countries all comfortably working from home/remotely. Though we’re a big team overall, each project is made up of small teams to remain agile and maintain good communication. sockets, TCP connection) • Shader programming • Unreal Engine.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. I am heavily indebted to earlier theorists, and highly recommend the books Lean Thinking and Lean Software Development. The lean startup is an application of Lean Thinking.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 24, 2011

Karl is a software engineer with more than 10 years of experience who specializes in agile web development and web services integrations. He authors a software development blog at [link]. There comes a time in a software developer’s career where they reach a crossroads and ask themselves, “What next?

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 30, 2014

Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Agile UX vs Lean UX, which should you choose? Agile UX vs Lean UX, which should you choose? Stanford engineer invents safe way to wirelessly power deep-tissue micro-implants in body shar.es/VyHov.

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bijoor.me

MARCH 26, 2014

Agile Development. Johan proposes a framework that describes the various layers of cloud platform services starting from virtualized hardware up to end-user software applications. 1: Software Defined Datacenter Users : Infrastructure Engineers. 4: Model-Driven PaaS Users : Business Engineers. Technology.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

We wanted an agile approach that would allow us to build our software architecture as we needed it, without downtime, but also without large amounts of up-front cost. After all, the worst kind of waste in software development is code to support a use case that never materializes. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 30, 2009

I thought Id share a little bit of that, too: I’ve been interested in different approaches to software development going back to 1987 when – in my first company Feld Technologies – my partner Dave Jilk and I started talking about “semi-custom software development&# (way ahead of its time).

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and in 2009 he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership. Those early text-based games were programmed by their own users, and it was by far the best tutorial I could ever have received in the power of software.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

Of all the tactics I have advocated as part of the lean startup , none has provoked as many extreme reactions as continuous deployment , a process that allows companies to release software in minutes instead of days, weeks, or months. One is used by engineers to refer to the process of getting code fully integrated into production.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

The first hint lies in its name; this is a product development model, not a marketing model, not a sales hiring model, not a customer acquisition model, not even a financing model (and we’ll also find that in most cases it’s even a poor model to use to develop a product.) Product Development Diagram 1. Where Are the Customers?

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 3, 2017

Kumo is a Japanese term for spider and was previously the name of an early Microsoft search engine that eventually evolved to become Bing. Not only did I have a suggestion, I created a science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) program and named it, KidGINEER, LLC. I combined Kid and Engineer to name the business KidGINEER!

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www.theenterprisearchitect.eu

MARCH 26, 2014

The Enterprise Architect building an Agile Enterprise Home MDD PaaS Startup Presentations About The cloud landscape described, categorized, and compared October 12, 2013 Johan Den Haan 10 comments “I work for a PaaS company” I answered him. Google App Engine? Contents: Layer 1: the software-defined datacenter.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

Boyd emphasized the importance of agility in combat: "the key to victory is to be able to create situations wherein one can make appropriate decisions more quickly than ones opponent." Agile software development. Agile allows companies to build higher quality software faster. Expo SF (May.

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