Bootstrapping Engineer Founder SCRUM 
Startup Lessons Learned
MARCH 16, 2009
XP and Scrum don’t have much to say - they punt. 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. Embedded in that assumption is why startups fail.
sivers.org
JUNE 25, 2010
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. Programmers, and certainly not the visionary founders, are the most qualified for that task. #6 Co-founders and outsourcing work the same.
www.vccafe.com
MARCH 11, 2013
.” Hackernews list of “Tools of the Trade” for startups - includes over 150 SaaS tools used by startups, and over 150 comments with interesting insights from founders. Design/Front End: Twitter Bootstrap : Include this in your website, and you are half finished. Firebase : Are all your developers front-end engineers?
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