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[Review] Rework

YoungUpstarts

They are collective punishment for the misdeeds of an individual” With excerpts like that, you can be sure that “ Rework ” by founders of 37Signals Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson isn’t an ordinary book on entrepreneurship. Perhaps the most radical chapter in the book was the one on hiring.

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How MakeSpace Recently Closed $30 million in New Funding

Both Sides of the Table

Amazon took a consumer value proposition (buying books, then all retail products) and made the consumer experience significantly better, faster & cheaper. They didn’t do this by selling better books or electronics, they did it by building a logistics & warehouse powerhouse. years of software development.

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Does Scrum Apply To All Types Of Projects?

The Startup Magazine

All of us know in software companies that scrum is the most significant agile methodology for handling software projects. In spite of its well-known advantages (flexibility, quick feedbacks, adaptability and better communication), we might be uncertain whether to use this framework or follow a traditional way for the development.

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3 Things to Consider When Staffing a Software Development Project

mashable.com

Brett Miller is the president of Custom Software by Preston (CSP). For more than 10 years CSP has impressed clients with highly effective software solutions and teams of multi-talented software engineers. The underlying questions to ask here are simple: Do you want to manage the small details of the project?

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[Review] The $100 Startup

YoungUpstarts

Espousing that borrowing money and debt are optional, the book proposed that entrepreneurs starting such businesses were more interested in the lifestyle it offered rather than making oodles of cash. Let me cover the salient points of the book. The key is to spend 50% of your business development time on creating.

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Real Unfair Advantages

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

No wait, I forgot, actually the question is: What happens when employee #2 makes off with your code and roadmap and marketing data and customer list, moves to Bolivia, and starts selling your stuff world-wide at one-tenth the price? But now she has the vision and ability to design her own software, capitalizing on modern trends (e.g.

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Brittleness comes from “One Thing”

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

We’re tired of hearing how small software companies usually fail. But what about the companies that die even though they did sell some copies of software, and where the early team isn’t dysfunctional? The initial marketing channel was sustainable for a while , but got wiped away due to external forces.