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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

My belief is that these lean startups will achieve dramatically lower development costs, faster time to market, and higher quality products in the years to come. I would add -- think of your development and running your business like a PM/Developer uses Agile or Scrum in software development. No more, no less.

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An ongoing discussion on linkedin about Offshore Web Development and building a team in Europe.

Scalable Startup

They start by demoing their skills on my project at no cost for 1-2 days. People in the Philippines or India or eastern europe are very low cost – $7-10/hour. Our strategy was to move to a distributed model where the entire scrum team works together offshore. I’ve been acting as project manager/dev manager.

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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. Then there were challenges with fulfillment logistics, difficulty maintaining DVD quality, and trying to figure out how to do all this in a way that covered costs and generated some cash.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

IP Location Tools. tells you how much adwords cost. Banana Scrum â?? A tool simple as Scrum itself. agile product management and Scrum tool. Automates Agile / Scrum development. hire low-cost international engineering talent. Xtranormal. Presentation tools. Login System. Social functionality.