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Ways APIs have Transformed the News and Media Industry

The Startup Magazine

However, these technological developments have also presented a special opportunity for companies to understand what their customers need and how they interact with their businesses. It has also made it easy for them to deliver content to different devices, hence reaching a large number of customers. Image Source: [link].

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10,000 Startups – Startup Weekend Next

Steve Blank

The class teaches founders how to dramatically reduce their failure rate through the combination of business model design, customer development and agile development using the Startup Owners Manual. You’ll understand the customer development process. Starts Nov 28 th. You’ll learn about working with a team.

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

Like a financial debt, the technical debt incurs interest payments, which come in the form of the extra effort that we have to do in future development because of the quick and dirty design choice. Startups especially can benefit by using technical debt to experiment, invest in process, and increase their product development leverage.

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Lessons Learned: Product development leverage

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, April 26, 2009 Product development leverage Leverage has once again become a dirty word in the world of finance, and rightly so. But I want to talk about a different kind of leverage, the kind that you can get in product development. Open APIs and data-oriented architecture (aka "web 2.0").

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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. The idea is that once we move to the new system (or coding standard, or API, or.)

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Why Continuous Deployment?

Startup Lessons Learned

If youre looking for resources on getting started, see " Continuous deployment in 5 easy steps ") The goal of continuous deployment is to help development teams drive waste out of their process by simultaneously reducing the batch size and increasing the tempo of their work. How severely is failure punished?

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Continuous deployment for mission-critical applications

Startup Lessons Learned

Even worse, the sad state of product development generally means that the new "features" are as likely to be ones that make the product worse, not better. So asking customers if theyd like to receive new releases more often usually leads to a consistent answer: "No, thank you." Its likely that the new release will contain new bugs.