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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. The breakthrough idea of agile is that software should be built iteratively, with the pieces that customers value most created first. Enter Jims post.

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Startup Resources

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Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Customer service. Design/Front End: Twitter Bootstrap : Include this in your website, and you are half finished. Google Custom Search Engine. Customer Relationship Management. great web customer acquisition tutorials. Codeacademy. Lean Methodology Sources.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

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Also important: Only go for providers who have great reviews from many past customers. Im a UX and front end designer bootstrapping my own products with pure sweat equity at night but always looking for someone else to partner with(engineer/programmer)to bring these ideas life. Decline bids from providers without many great reviews.