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The lean startup @ Web 2.0 Expo (and a call for help)

Startup Lessons Learned

The Lean Startup: a Disciplined Approach to Imagining, Designing, and Building New Products.: It uses principles of agile software development, open source and web 2.0, a guide for hackers) You buy virtual goods The free software hiring advantage Continuous deployment and continuous learning The lean startup @ Web 2.0

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Lessons from a year’s worth of hiring data

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Instead, they prefer problems that gradually build on themselves and open-ended design and architecture questions. Or I can spend a year bootstrapping a startup in my off hours and get it up to tens of thousands of users. Find me on: © 2008-2013 All rights reserved. The results. Now, here’s what I discovered.

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Lessons Learned: Combining agile development with customer development

Startup Lessons Learned

Well, that’s fine as far as it goes but when you’re a startup and you don’t have customers yet you need a way to bootstrap and that can feel awfully chaotic and wasteful. What causes projects like this to fail in traditional software development is that the solution is unknown.

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Finding a Technical Partner for Your Startup

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In the process of gathering feedback, you’re beginning to develop a network of advisers and supporters. First Things First: Your Requirements You seem to feel that your project isn’t ready to move forward without a software developer (a “programmer&# , as you say). says: July 25, 2009 at 3:56 am [.]

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270+ Tools for Running a Business Online

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Bootstrap – Online bookkeeping software that lets you track sales and expenses, organize your records for tax time, and more. 280Slides – A free online presentation software that allows you to import existing documents, download to PowerPoint, publish to the Web and more.

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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

Both Sides of the Table

After leaving Juno, he founded his own software company, Fog Creek Software. In 2008, he founded StackOverflow , and it has become the foundation for a question and answer platform called StackExchange. Do you see product managers as a hindrance to software development? Stackoverflow was created in 2008.