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Lessons Learned: Stevey's Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, November 6, 2008 Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile I thought Id share an interesting post from someone with a decidedly anti-agile point of view. Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile : "Google is an exceptionally disciplined company, from a software-engineering perspective.

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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). Better to do personal outreach to blogs/local media. Start a blog. Once you have scale, you can think about building your own sales force. PR/Marketing.

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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, October 4, 2008 About the author ( Update January, 2010: This post originally dates from October, 2008 back when I first started writing this blog. I didnt include much on the blog at first, because I want you to judge what I write based on what I say, rather than who I am. Thanks much.

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

Both Sides of the Table

I commented briefly on his blog and made a mental note to write a blog post. He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. I wanted several of the software engineers to join me at our next startup but their employment was tied to BuildOnline. Irony, hey?).

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SuperMac War Story 10: The Video Spigot « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Unintended Consequences – Video Editing As these boards are flying out the door, one of the software engineers at SuperMac got to thinking about what did you do with video once you did get it into a computer – so he wrote the first Quicktime-based video editor which we called ReelTime. Great blog, just now found it. Order Here.

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Technical Co-Founders Are A Myth

blog.captainrecruiter.com

Sunday, August 15, 2010. Two years ago I got the bug to do an online recruiting startup and I began the hunt to find a technical co-founder - a software engineer who works for no cash - to help me build my dream website. Most software engineers arent business people. Because software engineers dont work for free.

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Out of the Ashes - Something Isn't Quite Right

Steve Blank

Your blog post has provided a lot of useful insights for me which I’ve been implementing. Your blog post has provided a lot of useful insights for me which I’ve been implementing. Blog at WordPress.com. Do you have thoughts on specifically how to restructure startups? Would you mind sharing them?