Cofounder Entrepreneur SCRUM Software Development 
David Teten
OCTOBER 1, 2015
Should you co-found your company with a software development shop? I’ve seen a range of options for supporting entrepreneurs, which I can rank from least to most involvement in companies by investors: financier VCs, e.g., Correlation Ventures. The question is: how should they be compensated when cofounding a company?
Feld Thoughts
MAY 28, 2015
I remember my friend Ryan Martens sitting down with me and Chris Wand around 2001 and walking us through his idea for changing the how he approached managing the software development process. Ryan was encouraged to team up with Tim and shortly after that happened we co-led the first round VC financing with Boulder Ventures.
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The Next Web
MARCH 24, 2013
But between visioning sessions, collaborative software development and Linus’ Law of bug detection — we’ve been taught to accept the wisdom of crowds as necessary to most startup decision-making. Investor and 500 Startups founder Dave McClure offered TNW a few of his thoughts. You know what’s cool?
The Next Web
SEPTEMBER 8, 2013
Christian Jurinka is Chief Engagement Officer and Co-founder of Attack! Talking scrum to creative won’t work as well as to developers. The great design firm IDEO has the likes of structural engineers working side-by-side with journalists, software developers and surgeons to produce the next generation shopping cart.
Startup Lessons Learned
MARCH 16, 2009
XP and Scrum don’t have much to say - they punt. Ever since that time, I have struggled to explain how the feedback loop in customer development should interface with the feedback loop in product development. What causes projects like this to fail in traditional software development is that the solution is unknown.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 15, 2008
I am heavily indebted to earlier theorists, and highly recommend the books Lean Thinking and Lean Software Development. So far, I have found "lean startup" works better with the entrepreneurs Ive talked to than "agile startup" or even "extreme startup.") Leonardo Da Vinci noted that: "Simplicity is the ultimate in sophistication".
Startup Lessons Learned
DECEMBER 6, 2008
When youve mastered that, consider adding operations, customer service, marketing, product management, business development - the idea is that when the team needs to get approval or support from another department, they already have an "insider" who can make it happen. At IMVU, we found 60 days was just about right.
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