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Build Predictable Startup Models by Forming an Agency

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It provides the freedom to partner with entrepreneurs and reduce the costs of agency work in exchange for equity in their startup. For example, Lean Startup offers many benefits to emerging organizations, especially considering its focus on crafting a minimum viable product (MVP). It also helps bootstrap new startup businesses.

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Customer Development is Not a Focus Group

Steve Blank

We can put both little- and big-endian in the chip, and it won’t cost us more than 1,000 gates.” The reaction from our software guys was a little less kind. “Are Do you understand you are doubling the amount of work you are going to make for generations of software engineers? Are you out of your !? *x! No, not really.

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SuperMac War Story 10: The Video Spigot « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

A month or two before the QuickTime public announcement in May, the SuperMac hardware engineers (who had a great relationship with the QuickTime team at Apple) started a “ skunk works ” project. In less than a month they designed a low-cost video-capture board that plugged into the Mac and allowed you to connect a video camera and VCR.

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Ardent 2: Get Out of My Building

Steve Blank

Marketing is Heard From Engineering was discussing how sophisticated the graphics portion of our computer should be, debating cost and time-to-market tradeoffs of arcane details such as double-buffering, 24 versus 32-bits of color, alpha channels, etc. The conversation that day would become one of my professional watermarks.

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Preparing Websites For The Unexpected | Smashing Mobile

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When computers first gained graphical user interfaces, software engineers helped people make the transition from physical offices to digital files with the metaphor of a desktop. A mobile-optimized structure, however, leans towards a “taller” arrangement in addition to hierarchies. But each page stands alone.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

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Shame on you for spinning your desire for junior developers as being solely related to cost. PS I’m not one of those 90%, but.NET is one obvious choice for writing client software – especially since MonoMac became viable. It’s like arguing against vertical software. March 26, 2011 at 9:02 am.

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