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How To Work Better with Your Co-Founder

ReadWriteStart

It's not easy to build a great Web application. While open-source tools, readily available APIs, social platforms and cloud hosting providers have made it easier in many ways, being a Web entrepreneur is still not for the faint of heart. This is one of the reasons that it's so important to have a good co-founder.

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The Digital Transformation Is Affordable For SMBs: Where To Start In Your Digital Strategy

YoungUpstarts

by Humberto Farias, CEO and co-founder at Concepta. As a dynamic business leader and a Certified Scrum Master, Humberto leads a team of highly skilled software engineers and developers as CEO and co-founder at Concepta , providing tailored web and mobile applications to small-to-medium enterprises.

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Rally Software Acquired By CA Technologies for $480 Million

Feld Thoughts

Ryan had a vision for an integration web-based system to layer on top of all of this to help support and manage 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. We weren’t the first investor in Rally.

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Lessons Learned: Combining agile development with customer development

Startup Lessons Learned

XP and Scrum don’t have much to say - they punt. If you look at the origins of most agile systems, including Scrum and XP , they come out of experiences in big companies. Both Scrum and XP had a role which you could happily call by the modern title "Product Manager". Embedded in that assumption is why startups fail.

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12 ways to get your business development and tech teams on the same page

The Next Web

Here’s a problem I bet every non-technical founder has experienced: the communication gap between what the biz dev team wants and what the tech team thinks they want, and vice versa. It’s disruptive, and for founders, very frustrating to watch. Kelsey Meyer , Influence & Co. Their answers are below. Cross Train Members.

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The most valuable lessons I learned from managing a virtual team

The Next Web

Denis Duvauchelle is the CEO and co-founder of Twoodo , the ultimate online collaboration tool. “I Solution #1: At least once a week have a scrum meeting that absolutely everyone prioritizes. After the scrum, if time allows, hang out and catch up. I can’t work effectively at home.”. Decisions are made in person.”. “I

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How groupthink and denial can ruin startups

The Next Web

Investor and 500 Startups founder Dave McClure offered TNW a few of his thoughts. Scrum and large group discussions can be useful during the customer discovery phase of the business, but decisions should be based on what’s driving customers as opposed to the subjective. Get rid of the rest, because they’re dragging you down.

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