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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. Great blog! The lean startup is an application of Lean Thinking.

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Work Less, Get More Done, Convenient Open Source, What a Startup.

Software By Rob

Making Open Source Convenient: JumpBox – A startup focused on making it dead-simple to get started with open source applications, they create virtual machines completely pre-configured to just start and go (including versions that runs on Amazon EC2). I’ve been reading your blog for a while now and really enjoy your writing.

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A framework for categorizing and comparing cloud platforms

bijoor.me

Thanks to Alex Popsecu’s NoSql blog , found a well articulated thesis by Johan den Haan , CTO at Mendix. Johan proposes a framework that describes the various layers of cloud platform services starting from virtualized hardware up to end-user software applications. February 18, 2014. 1 comment. Case Study : Big Data in the Cloud.

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Twitter Link Roundup #60 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Useful comparison of Amazon vs. Rackspace clouds & why Mixpanel is moving to EC2 – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. Lessons Learned From Helping Over 150 Startups With Marketing Part 1 – [link].

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The cloud landscape described, categorized, and compared

www.theenterprisearchitect.eu

The best-known examples in the market today probably are the  Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)  and  OpenStack Nova. I wrote a similar (though shorter) blog post describing how we are segmenting the market with fit-for-purpose offerings: [link] DBJ November 2, 2013 | Reply Valuable article. When people talk about â??cloudâ??

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How To Bootstrap Your Startup

www.readwriteweb.com

But it is fraught with risks - and the primary risk you need to guard against is software development failure. The main causes are: Client fails to precisely express their requirements to the vendor; Client continuously changes their mind during the development process; A poorly constructed development contract.

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What The Rails Security Issue Means For Your Startup

www.kalzumeus.com

Kalzumeus Software. Patrick McKenzie (patio11) blogs on software development, marketing, and general business topics. Don’t skip this post because you’re not a Rails developer. If you’re reading this blog, this matters to you. Patrick is the founder of Kalzumeus Software.

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