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Vision Pivots vs. Discovery Pivots

SVPG

from Java to Ruby), or a "pivot" of their development process (e.g. from Scrum to Kanban), or a "pivot" of a dedicated product team to work on something else (I guess this is supposed to make the team feel better about the new assignment, because pivots are something cool teams do). It is often used as a synonym for "change."

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Lessons Learned: Built to learn

Startup Lessons Learned

MarkH : Key takeaways from Erics great talk #w2e #leanstartup 1) "building a culture to learn " @ericries Marks point is the one that seems to have had the biggest impact from the talk as a whole: that startups should be built to learn. The lean startup focuses on situations where we have both an unknown problem and an unknown solution.

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How To Scale a Development Team

adam.heroku.com

Some startups, on reaching this stage, declare “we’ve got to grow up and act like a real company now” and immediately try to switch to heavy-handed tactics. For example: full-fledged SCRUM, heavyweight tools like Jira, or hiring a project manager or engineering manager. Pick your battles carefully and stay focused.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

Useful blogs and links for startups Click Here ————– 2.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). VC & Startup Resources. Seed Startups. VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. Hundreds of startups featured since 2005, will yours be next? About VC Cafe.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

If you live in an area that has "hacker" or "startup-weekend" type events where idea people are teamed with developers, it can be great way to get some free (or low cost) experience in what it is like to work with a team of developers, narrow the scope of your project, and understand what it takes to get to v1.0