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Lessons Learned: Combining agile development with customer development

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, March 16, 2009 Combining agile development with customer development Today I read an excellent blog post that I just had to share. Jim Murphy is a long-time agile practitioner in startups. But startups sometimes have trouble applying agile successfully.

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Make Your Startup Appear More Professional

The Startup Magazine

A startup by nature is a small, agile company which is innovating to solve a problem. Good website usability includes reliable hosting so that people can access your site at any time, mobile responsiveness, a clear and consistent message, and intuitive design. Start-ups are lean and designed to grow or scale up quickly.

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Selecting a Web Development Company

SoCal CTO

Don''t be swayed by big name firms or other kinds of name dropping. Do not fall into the trap of Startups and a Common Misunderstanding in Agile Software Development. What''s the plan for hosting and support? Have they worked on projects that are similar to your project? And make sure you see those projects. References.

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Lessons Learned: Using AdWords to assess demand for your new.

Startup Lessons Learned

So, if youre interested in helping avoid mistakes like that, here are the steps: Get a domain name. It doesnt have to be the worlds catchiest name, just pick something reasonably descriptive. If youre concerned about sullying your eventual brand name, dont use your "really good" name, pick a code name.

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Bringing Lean Startup to Life at GE

Startup Lessons Learned

Guest post by Sarah Milstein, co-host of The Lean Startup Conference. At a party in NYC recently, I was challenged by a VC to name the biggest company currently using Lean Startup practices. I think he expected me to describe a medium-sized startup or maybe some small, old-school media organization.

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6 Effective Branding and Marketing Strategies for Your Beauty Business

crowdSPRING Blog

The design thinking process may have originated with designers, but the business world has started to take notice because of the agility, speed, and innovation that it promises. Post questions and run short surveys, or host a poll to get quick feedback on an idea or to gauge interest.

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Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

Startup Lessons Learned

In addition to presenting the IMVU case, we tried for the first time to do an overview of a software engineering methodology that integrates practices from agile software development with Steves method of Customer Development. Ive attempted to embed the relevant slides below. What about a hardware business with some long-lead-time components?