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How R&D Investment Grows Your Business

ReadWriteStart

Standing for research and development; this activity ultimately creates winning opportunities for the companies leveraging it. Let’s find out the R&D investment meaning and the reasons why invest in research and development, following the example of industry-disrupting companies. Develop a unique product or service.

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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. There were a lot of questions about outsourcing/offshoring and startups. Talk about waste.

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The truth about digital offshoring

Start Up Blog

When we inject money into developing economies we are increasing the living standards not just for our employees, but for their economy in general. No one is sending kids down mines with digital offshoring. Tags: entrepreneurship outsourcing offshoring time management entrepreneurs startups web 2.0 Not really.

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Social, Agile, and Transformation: Strategic Agile Thinking: Balancing Value, Innovation and Research

ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

I cover several topics including agile software development, software startups, web 2.0, Left on its own, product owners and development teams just may make debatable and sometimes questionable decisions on priorities or implementation strategy. There is still technical debt that must be worked into the development backlog.

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Why You Should Start Your Entrepreneurial Career In Restaurants

YoungUpstarts

You can’t eat through a web browser or move your kitchens offshore to a lower cost country! Restaurants hone a craft you cannot offshore and provide an experience you cannot digitize. You can practice empathy, but you can’t develop passion for a problem without encountering it yourself. Unlike digital fads, food is survival.

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Five lethal mistakes in offshore software development

murkygrey.com

They emerge a few years later in hoards of brilliant and eager software developers. The big guys have been doing it for years and recently, smaller and smaller startups are incorporating offshore development into their plans. As a development manager I have, over the years, utilized development teams in India, China and Russia.

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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? I’ve talked with a number of software development shops who are eager to get into the business of cofounding companies, i.e., getting product revenue and equity instead of just consulting revenue. Vlad is also the CEO at DarwinApps , a software development shop.