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How to Optimize SaaS Development Costs

Up and Running

Follow lean product development strategy (MVP strategy). Lean product development strategy or MVP (Minimum Viable Product) refers to creating a product with core features and offering it to a specific audience to get feedback. Use cloud backends like AWS or Azure.

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Microsoft, Near Death, & Enterprise Cloud

Agile VC

And Microsoft’s Azure strategy has given it a strong position in public and private cloud computing. This seems like a no-brainer but Ballmer and the MSFT board might lean towards a less risky path. 3) Triple down on cloud infrastructure & services with Azure and acquisitions.

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The 7 Deadly Healthcare Startup Sins

Steve Blank

He’s now run several Lean LaunchPad classes and has seen a ton of healthcare startups. The reality is that healthcare customers know that startups’ portals are likely hosted by AWS, Azure, or Google, and therefore pose security and privacy concerns. Use the Lean Startup tools! Embrace the Lean Startup tools and methods.

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Should this startup exist? Converting 5W’s into existential justification

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

LoudCloud invented cloud computing in 2000 but had to pivot away, but of course AWS, Google, Rackspace, Azure and others are a smashing success in 2016. You might already know about “Five Whys” from Lean Startup, a method for determining root causes of problems and generating ideas for incremental improvement.

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Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

SoCal CTO

Will Price , October 11, 2010 Georgians Should Vote No - Force of Good: a blog by Lance Weatherby , October 28, 2010 Free Software for Managing a Lean Startup - Platforms and Networks , January 17, 2010 Purpose Driven Life - Journey of a Serial Entrepreneur , July 26, 2010 Two Decade-Defining Acquisitions?

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

blog.expensify.com

Just as.NET is both a lock-in and very restricting, and Java violates both “lean cuisine class hierarchy” and “objects if necessary, but not necessarily objects”, the “we’ll just use XML” mantra deserves to die. I’m involved in one startup.NET/Azure is the best fit.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Windows Azure. Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Part 3- Lean Cust. Steve Blank’s Lean Startup Resources. Lean Startup Circle â?? Lean project management. Lean Startup Machine. Lean Startups.