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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower

Do you have legal (Founder Agreement, IP, etc.) Do you have a custom algorithm or other technology? Social Integration/Viral Outreach Is your application tied into any social networks? Is it limited to login and Like buttons, or are you building a presence within the social networks themselves?

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. I am heavily indebted to earlier theorists, and highly recommend the books Lean Thinking and Lean Software Development. The lean startup is an application of Lean Thinking.

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How To Bootstrap Your Startup

www.readwriteweb.com

But it is fraught with risks - and the primary risk you need to guard against is software development failure. The main causes are: Client fails to precisely express their requirements to the vendor; Client continuously changes their mind during the development process; A poorly constructed development contract.

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Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice - Discussion

news.ycombinator.com

If it is obvious and easy to do (A), then I would conclude that there was no technological advantage, no technological barrier to entry, and would would have to look for a special reason to try. social network/web analysis/etc. One thing Id add: IP- and idea-defense isnt always the strategy behind the stealth tactic.

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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

maplebutter.com

what are the most crucial steps to be taken by a new tech startup when outsourcing major part of the tech to IT firms or outsourcing “product development” eg new social media website project? I think it’s a huge mistake to outsource technology as a startup. What is next for you Dan? Get excited and build s**t.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

They write everything from assembly to jQuery, on PCs to mobile phones, doing hard core computer graphics to high level social networking. Full discloure, I am a former PHP, Perl, ColdFusion, ActionScript, VB.NET, ASP.NET and C# developer. Guess which technology we have the least trouble with. March 25, 2011 at 1:36 pm.

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