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Five common misconceptions about building a startup in New York City

This is going to be BIG.

It’s really difficult for me not to get into the thick of discussions about whether or not you can and/or should build a company in New York City. There are user groups, gaming meetups, meetups in security or agile development—lots of places entrepreneurs rarely tread. Look, New York City isn’t for everyone.

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The Agile Board

Both Sides of the Table

Over time at my first startup our developers encouraged us to move to Agile development. So when I read my post it sounded to me more like a new philosophy for “The Agile Board,&# so I put that as my subtitle. Nivi (from VentureHacks ) said it best: “Agile is about short feedback loops. I liked that.

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Workplace Flexibility Boosts Remote Teams’ Loyalty

Transformify

The first was a shakeup in our software engineering team, which was originally based out of New York City. We found ourselves with a large project and the need to bring in a new team in order to be able to take it on. where he worked for the Library of Congress to Madison, WI.

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Case Study: Lean UX at work

Startup Lessons Learned

This article is a guest post by Jeff Gothelf, Director of User Experience at TheLadders in New York City. TheLadders is an eight-year-old company based out of New York City focusing on the $100k+ employment market (both jobseekers and recruiters).

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Boston Startup School Graduates To Institute With New York Expansion

ReadWriteStart

Known as the Boston Startup School , the company is now rebranding itself as the Startup Institute and expanding its first class to New York City starting in June. This allows us to operate at a much lower cost, and remain agile alongside the changing needs of high-growth technology startups,” O’Hearn said.

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How SMBs And Startups Can Utilize The Cloud To Increase Their Bottom Line

YoungUpstarts

This Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) model allows companies to focus their energy on the areas where they are making money, instead of worrying about the minute configuration details of every new server. Speed and agility have never before been so available and so crucial in business.

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Impact! NYU Scales the Lean LaunchPad

Steve Blank

The Lean LaunchPad class teaches students how to build a Lean Startup using business model design, customer development and agile engineering. (The Innovation Corps, or I-Corps for short, is my Stanford Lean LaunchPad class offered by the National Science Foundation to our leading scientists. Spend it Wisely.

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