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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. I am heavily indebted to earlier theorists, and highly recommend the books Lean Thinking and Lean Software Development. The lean startup is an application of Lean Thinking.

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When You Should Hire a Dev Shop (other than “never”)

bhargreaves.com

Read the scenarios and give yourself points accordingly: 3 Points: You actually do not know any software developers. Examples could be (a) experience building Facebook games under the new notification rules or (b) knowledge of how to build exceptionally secure e-commerce sites. Scissor.com is another agile option.

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Twitter Link Roundup #35 – Design, Copywriting, Marketing, Small Business, Social Media And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Why Startups are Agile and Opportunistic – Pivoting the Business Model – [link]. Government Continues To Embrace Crowdsourcing – [link]. A Showcase of Impressed Print Designs – [link].

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Twitter Link Roundup #35 – Design, Copywriting, Marketing, Small Business, Social Media And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Why Startups are Agile and Opportunistic – Pivoting the Business Model – [link]. Government Continues To Embrace Crowdsourcing – [link]. A Showcase of Impressed Print Designs – [link].

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When It’s Darkest Men See the Stars

Steve Blank

the failure rate of new ventures (startups had no formal rules and were a hit or miss proposition), the slow adoption rate of new technologies by the government and large companies. A company developing software would have to buy computers and license software from other companies and hire the staff to run and maintain it.

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Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

In the last century, while startups continued to innovate in each new wave of technology, the rate of innovation was constrained by limitations we only now can understand. In the 1970’s, 80’s and 90’s, momentum shifted to the enterprise as large businesses supported innovation in PCs, communications hardware and enterprise software.

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