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6 Ways to Make Sure Your Tech Startup Will Succeed in 2018

Up and Running

Building a well-organized team of competent and dedicated employees is critical for the life of your startup. Reputation will be as important as ever in 2018—only now, it’s more about your brand identity spread through digital channels. Scaling can mean many things, from acquiring new employees to increasing the marketing budget.

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20 Entrepreneurs Share Their Business Goals for 2019

Hearpreneur

One major goal for 2019 is to continue to improve my company’s reputation. We have established that reputation through hard work, excellent results and transparency in how we work with our clients and our staff. 18- Improve engagement with my employees. #10- Improve the perception of my company as an authority. 11- Two goals.

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Can A Startup Do OffShore Development? Part 2

prosperati.com

As a result, local universities here churn out thousands of new graduates each year who can spell Microsoft but understand nothing about proper software engineering. Everyone knows everyone’s reputation and ability. Hence instead of focusing on the artist, the industry focuses on the art supplies to determine quality.

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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

Although Catalyst folded with the dot-com crash, Ries continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com, leading efforts in agile software development and user-generated content. That institution will touch many people in its life: customers, investors, employees, and everyone they touch as well.

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Lead Developer to CTO at a Startup

SoCal CTO

It's also the sad fact that there's often a desire to bring someone in who has a bigger reputation and likely experience with larger startups that have gone through M&A or IPO. In fact, it's likely the case that it's better to keep the lead developer leading a small team to get product out the door. But that's most often not the case.

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So you say you want to be a Product Manager …?

Austin Startup

I learned that software engineers?—?or customers, other employees, books, blogs, social media, news?—?and Even more, I learned (from a starting point of zero know-how) about Jira tickets and Trello boards and wireframing and UX paper tests and InVision mocks and metrics-based roadmapping. or developers?—?are

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Why Crunch Modes Doesn't Work: Six Lessons

www.igda.org

For them — and anyone else who wants to increase their employees productivity and sanity — lets take a look at some of the assumptions management makes regarding hours, output, efficiency, and production costs; and see how a century of industrial research has conclusively, consistently proven those assumptions wrong. Its ironic.