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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

I would add -- think of your development and running your business like a PM/Developer uses Agile or Scrum in software development. Mark Montgomery Founder Kyield Initium VC September 12, 2009 4:21 AM Mark Montgomery said. The wise entrepreneur will take this advice seriously in order to distill his ideas down to their essence.

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The Surprising Ways a Distributed Team Can Help Your Company Succeed

crowdSPRING Blog

This one minute scene from the movie “Office Space” will put things into perspective: Such concerns are unfounded, according to a recent study from Nicholas Bloom, a professor of economics at Stanford University, and graduate student James Liang, co-founder of the Chinese travel website Ctrip. There is however, much more.

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Should You Co-Found Your Company With a Software Development Shop (2 of 2)?

David Teten

Should you co-found your company with a software development shop? incubators, e.g., the many options in New York. intrapreneurs, e.g., the employee of GE who is tasked with launching a new business. incubators, e.g., the many options in New York. What are the terms of their relationship with the founder?

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Behind Every Great Product

SVPG

If you think the product manager job is what’s described in a Certified Scrum Product Owner class, you almost certainly fall into this category. They had a couple experienced co-founders, including the now legendary Reed Hastings, but the problem was that they were stuck at about 300,000 customers.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

Programmers, and certainly not the visionary founders, are the most qualified for that task. #6 Dont make cheap skate equity offers, with programmer getting equity share of first employee and salary of founder(nothing or next to nothing). Co-founders and outsourcing work the same. How much effort will it cost?