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Internet of Things: The Skills Connected Companies Look For In Young Professionals

YoungUpstarts

by Nicolas Windpassinger , author of “ Internet of Things: Digitize or Die “ Everyone speaks about the Internet of Things, by now most people know what it is and some start-ups and young professionals are knees deep in IoT. It’s the kind of flexibility the IoT needs: an appetite for change and agility.

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How to build an agile and scalable SaaS for long-term success

The Next Web

James Kenigsberg is the Chief Technology Officer and a founding team member at 2U , an educational technology company that partners with universities to offer online degree programs. By doing so, we demystify the online education experience and use our technology to empower the students enrolled in our partner programs. .

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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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Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond"

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, April 4, 2010 Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Kent Beck will give the opening keynote at the Startup Lessons Learned conference on April 23. To his credit are Extreme Programming , jUnit, patterns, TDD , the list goes on. Our mystery keynote is now revealed and I couldnt be more excited.

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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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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

Their idea is that consumers will want a subscription service for short form entertainment (10-minute programs) for mobile rather than full length movies. When VC’s realized how eager the public markets were for anything related to the internet, they pushed startups with little revenue and no profits into IPOs as fast as they could.

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Embracing Digital Disruption in the Business World

The Startup Magazine

They have programmed a neural network to create an aesthetics detection algorithm that can see the beauty in photos the same way humans do. They tested 956,794 positive and negative patterns and programmed their algorithm to see the beauty of images in the same way as humans. PSL: Agile Software Development for Efficient Business.