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Lightspeed is growing our Consumer Investing team

Lightspeed Venture Partners

He’s the cofounder and former CTO of LivingSocial, and over the past few years has angel invested in companies such as Shyp, LendingHome, Walker & Co, and also sits on the board of a YC alumni ThinAir. For that reason I was thrilled when Aaron Batalion joined as my partner in November.

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Should You Co-Found Your Company With a Software Development Shop (2 of 2)?

David Teten

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. The question is: how should they be compensated when cofounding a company? equity that belongs to departed cofounders)?

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Lessons Learned: Built to learn

Startup Lessons Learned

No engineering team. But where it makes sense, that team may also include engineers building new experiments or prototypes to try with customers. And instead of design, engineering, QA, and operations we have a solution team implementing a startup-centric version of agile development. You need a problem team and a solution team."

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Episode 3: Smart Bear Live!

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

How to move from a free to a paid product without losing all your users. How cofounders can collaborate without going crazy. To a paid product, so that we can actually become a sustainable business, and I think we’re hitting some sort of analysis process. So if I were you I would say, ‘That is not a viable engine.’

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

AgileZen – project management visually see and interact with your work Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.