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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. mentor VCs, e.g., most VCs. Our model at Casual Corp.

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Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. Unfortunately, positioning our product as an "IM add-on" was a complete mistake.

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Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

In the last century, while startups continued to innovate in each new wave of technology, the rate of innovation was constrained by limitations we only now can understand. The second thing that’s changed is that we’re now Compressing the Product Development Cycle. What we’re now seeing is The Democratization of Entrepreneurship.

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When It’s Darkest Men See the Stars

Steve Blank

the failure rate of new ventures (startups had no formal rules and were a hit or miss proposition), the slow adoption rate of new technologies by the government and large companies. Compressing the Product Development Cycle. The founders were simply wrong about their assumptions about customer needs. Starting now.

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Lessons Learned: Combining agile development with customer development

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, March 16, 2009 Combining agile development with customer development Today I read an excellent blog post that I just had to share. In most agile development systems, there is a notion of the "product backlog" a prioritized list of what software is most valuable to be developed next.

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23 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Customers would often ask me about business credit but I knew nothing about it and couldn’t find anything about it online. My expertise in product development and project management came after working as a consultant in many industries. I’ve spent more than two decades in the software industry. I discovered that business.

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What Do Diversity Hiring and Work From Home Jobs Have in Common?

Transformify

Typically, these remote jobs did not require advanced skills – data entry jobs, image tagging, image labeling, customer support, online call centers, telemarketing, online surveys and the like. Over the last decade, a new trend emerged as tech talent was scarce where it was needed the most.

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