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Resources for Girls Learning to Code

Feld Thoughts

The New Boston. NCWIT ayah bdeir coding girls littlebits software development space' Storytelling ALICE . LEGO robotics. Agent Cubes-in-a-box. Globaloria. AppInventor. The post Resources for Girls Learning to Code appeared first on Feld Thoughts.

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"What's Next in Tech" Event in Boston

Altgate

You would have to spend millions of dollars hiring software developers, renting real estate, buying hardware, etc. As an entrepreneur it means bootstrap, bootstrap, bootstrap. Until relatively recently, the capital requirements of technology businesses were quite large. Bookmark the permalink.

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Thoughts on being a startup in Chicago: 3 tips for entrepreneurs

crowdSPRING Blog

The number of VC firms located here and funding Chicago companies was tiny compared to the number in Silicon Valley (or New York and Boston for that matter). Our hurdle was to develop our own network of investors and we did this the old-fashioned way: one degree of separation at a time. Funding, too, was a challenge.

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The lean startup @ Web 2.0 Expo (and a call for help)

Startup Lessons Learned

It uses principles of agile software development, open source and web 2.0, Expo New York New York, NY Nov 19 The Lean Startup at MIT Boston, MA Nov 20 Lunch workshop at Dogpatch Labs Boston, MA Dec 17 Lean Startup Cohort program begins San Francisco, CA KISSmetrics KISSmetrics is loading. Amazon PostRank

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Lessons Learned: Combining agile development with customer development

Startup Lessons Learned

Well, that’s fine as far as it goes but when you’re a startup and you don’t have customers yet you need a way to bootstrap and that can feel awfully chaotic and wasteful. What causes projects like this to fail in traditional software development is that the solution is unknown. Amazon PostRank

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Your Market is Smaller Than You Think

Software By Rob

Where they don’t belong is with a bootstrapped founder trying to figure out how many customers she can expect to reach next month on her shoestring marketing budget. Bottom-Up There are many bottom-up approaches to sizing a market; I discuss the approach I use in my developer’s guide to launching a startup.

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Finding a Technical Partner for Your Startup

rapidrollout.wordpress.com

In the process of gathering feedback, you’re beginning to develop a network of advisers and supporters. First Things First: Your Requirements You seem to feel that your project isn’t ready to move forward without a software developer (a “programmer&# , as you say).