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HOW TO: Build an App for Your Small Business

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TheyMakeApps.com is a good resource if you’re looking for a competent mobile dev agency. Here, developers and dev shops are organized by vertical so you can find a shop that has expertise in the kind of app you want to build. View More » Jobs VP of Sales at Mashable (New York, Ne. PM OK, agree.

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HOW TO: Hire the Perfect CTO

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a New York-based sizzle reel production company specializing in promotional videos for PR and marketing professionals, and the Young Entrepreneur Council. When making technical hires, we always reach out to our network of programmer friends and ask them to sit in on interviews and review resumes with us.

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Lessons Learned: Product development leverage

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Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, April 26, 2009 Product development leverage Leverage has once again become a dirty word in the world of finance, and rightly so. But I want to talk about a different kind of leverage, the kind that you can get in product development. Its a key lean startup concept.

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The Playbook for Scale Up Nation

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This post was co-authored with Omri Stern and originally appeared in Harvard Business Review. The common approach is to incubate the business locally in Israel with a small development team, prove early product/market fit, and then build a sales and marketing organization abroad, usually in the U.S.

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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

Most of the other processs changes - mandatory design reviews (prelimninary, critical, etc), - documenting all our procedures, and so on - were to support those two factors. A project usually has an absolute duration and budget whereas the time and money dedicated to development within the project is where the tradeoffs are made.

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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

Both Sides of the Table

Do you see product managers as a hindrance to software development? Companies historically have structured their development teams in different ways. There’s a big business in Finance working with Excel, but that’s an outlier. To get reputation, you answer questions and they’re peer reviewed.