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How To Work Better with Your Co-Founder

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It's not easy to build a great Web application. While open-source tools, readily available APIs, social platforms and cloud hosting providers have made it easier in many ways, being a Web entrepreneur is still not for the faint of heart. Use Solid Agile Process for Estimating Development Timeline.

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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.") The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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Startup Tools

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Useful blogs and links for startups Click Here ————– 2.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. Amazon Web Services. High Quality, and open sourced! Web Tools: Hereâ??s We have an iOS SDK as well, for web-web, mobile-mobile, web-mobile video chat and video messaging.

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Lessons Learned: A new version of the Joel Test (draft)

Startup Lessons Learned

Lets start with the original list: Do you use source control ? This is still an essential practice, especially on the web. There was a time when "web content" was considered "not code" and therefore not routinely source controlled. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Can you make a build in one step?

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You don't need as many tools as you think

Startup Lessons Learned

Heres something I can relate to: We used assembla for subversion, scrums, milestones, wikis, and for general organizational purposes. We had all the tools in place but we didn’t actually practice agile development. Scrum reports would come in once a month, nobody was actually responsible for anything. Expo SF (May.

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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. Yet other agile principles suggest the opposite, as in YAGNI and DoTheSimplestThingThatCouldPossiblyWork. Reconciling these principles requires a little humility.