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Amsterdam-based Rockstart Accelerator’s first graduates head to Silicon Valley

The Next Web

Wercker : a continuous deployment solution for software developers, hosted in the cloud. If you’re going to the Demo Day in Silicon Valley, these are the startups you’ll be hearing from: Peerby : Peerby enables people to rent goods in their neighborhood and just won over 100,000 euros at the Green Challenge.

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The new startup arms race (for Huffington Post)

Startup Lessons Learned

The United States is locked in a new arms race for that most precious resource -- the future entrepreneurs upon whom economic growth depends. The United States is locked in a new arms race for that most precious resource -- the future entrepreneurs upon whom economic growth depends.

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Lean Startup at Scale

Startup Lessons Learned

As Shutterstock has grown, there are a few key elements to our continued development speed: Small, autonomous teams: The more a team can do on their own, the faster they can go. Continuous deployment: A key component of speed is to keep pushing out work. Growth changed all that. Over a thousand people work here now.

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Tell your Startup Visa story

Startup Lessons Learned

If youre registered to vote in the United States, and youd like your elected representatives to know that you support the Startup Visa, you can register your support in just two minutes at [link]. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0,

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The Lean Entrepreneur is here

Startup Lessons Learned

Struggling to explain the successes and failures of those companies, I discussed principles like continuous deployment, customer development, and a hyper-accelerated form of agile. My personal background was as an engineer and my companies had been Web-based startups, so that is what I wrote about.

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Support the Startup Founders Visa with a tweet

Startup Lessons Learned

The idea is to enable up to 10,000 people per year to enter the United States if they are here to found a company that will employ US citizens. The idea is to enable up to 10,000 people per year to enter the United States if they are here to found a company that will employ US citizens.

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6 Questions To Ask Before Launching a New Feature

usersknow.blogspot.com

► November (2) 6 Reasons Users Hate Your New Feature Is Continuous Deployment Good for Users? Please follow me on Twitter at [link] View my complete profile Blog Archive ▼ 2010 (29) ► October (3) A Review of UserTesting.com Pie-Jacking and Other Tips for Making Engineers To.