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Open Source Entrepreneurship

Steve Blank

The class teaches the three basic skills all entrepreneurs need to know: business model design. agile engineering. The Slides/Video tab on the top of this page has all the open source course material for my classes. customer development. Class Syllabi, My Lecture Slides and Student Presentations.

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CEO of TaskTop’s Book Introduces Flow Framework to Address Why DevOps/Agile Not Enough

Hearpreneur

Before Tasktop, I spent a decade building open source software development tools. The feeling of delivering value to and through a community of developers at the pace of an open source software project was exhilarating. Our products are designed to bring about this shift in how large-scale software is built.

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I-Corps @ NIH – Pivoting the Curriculum

Steve Blank

Agile Engineering” to have teams prototype, test, and iterate their idea while discovering if they have a profitable business model. This lecture order was embedded in the Udacity Lectures , the syllabi and educators guide I open-sourced. “Customer Development” to test the hypotheses outside the building and.

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Twitter Link Roundup #82 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Mobile Web Design: 10 Tips To Better Usability – [link]. 16 Magazine Covers and Layouts Design Examples – [link]. Vintage Label Designs – [link].

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. So far, I have found "lean startup" works better with the entrepreneurs Ive talked to than "agile startup" or even "extreme startup.") The lean startup is an application of Lean Thinking.

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8 Must Have Tools For Your Next App Build

YoungUpstarts

Adding the right tools and automation, teams can design, test, build, and deploy software more agilely. There are plenty of open source software and commercial software solutions that DevOps teams are using to accelerate app development. Gradle was designed for multi-projects builds, which can grow to large scale.

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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. We can choose to continue paying the interest, or we can pay down the principal by refactoring the quick and dirty design into the better design.