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@altgate » Blog Archive » Outsourcing For Startups

Altgate

The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded). We tried to provide a framework for startups to think about what activities should be outsourced and why. To that I say baloney. link] fnazeeri I’ve seen it work (and not).

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

In an early-stage startup especially, revenue is not an important goal in and of itself. Let’s start with a simple question: why do early-stage startups want revenue? Go on an agile diet quickly. With a product development team that is not shipping, any agile methodology will surface major problems quickly.

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Don’t Jump Too Soon: How To Properly Pace Business Growth

YoungUpstarts

They constantly evaluate their systems, frameworks, and processes to determine whether they’re operating in the most effective manner for where they are now. This was an obstacle I encountered while at Roozt.com, the Etsy-style platform for social entrepreneurs we launched in 2008.

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a16z Podcast: Growth in Turbulent Times

Ben's Blog

In normal times, every company operates against some hypothetical growth model—a data-driven framework that describes how your product grows and how you acquire new users. In normal times, every company operates against some hypothetical growth model—a data-driven framework that describes how your product grows and how you acquire new users.

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Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and what's changed since.

Startup Lessons Learned

This simple three-part framework underlies almost all discussions about technical design today, and it was clearly on display in the recent debates over technical debt. But in the early stages of a startup you are still trying to hone in on what exactly the problem is. August 9, 2009 2:54 AM Eric said. Expo SF (May.

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Introducing Lean Planning: How to plan less and grow faster

Up and Running

Lean Planning started with Tim Berry ‘s 2008 “ Plan-As-You-Go Business Plan ” which was a new way for entrepreneurs to think about planning. Here at Palo Alto Software in 2007 and 2008, we embraced these planning concepts and moved towards a more agile planning process.

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Lessons Learned: Don't launch

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, March 13, 2009 Dont launch Heres a common question I get from startups, especially in the early stages: when should we launch? This is the usual reason given for a marketing launch, but for most early stage startups, its a failure. Combining agile development with customer developm.