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The Top 20 Symptoms of a Weak Development Team

TechEmpower

When speaking with founders and CEOs, we often hear concerns like this: My project manager is losing confidence in the development team. The PMs are seeing late deliveries and bugs that suggest the devs just aren’t capable enough. This is where a technical review can be useful!) Dev teams without a clear leader.

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How To Survive The Loss Of A Main Customer

YoungUpstarts

by Zain Jaffer, serial entrepreneur and the Founder and CEO of Zain Ventures. This is especially true for startups, which operate on the basis of customer traction to solidify expectations with investors or lending institutions. Conduct a post-action review. Assess both the short- and long-term financial impact.

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Be Your First Customer: Why Beta Testing Is Right for You

YoungUpstarts

by Sam Bahreini, co-founder and COO of VoloForce. And just this past April, Apple announced its plans to release its next OS X operating system in public beta. Automated testing assesses the designed boundaries of your product. It seems like almost all technology goes to market with a “beta” tag attached.

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Survival Tips From A Seasoned Digital Nomad Who Made It Out The Other Side

YoungUpstarts

by Martin Hunter, co-founder of Free Event Finder. Make risk assessments based on potential geographic location. If establishing physical offices in a developing country, split them into at least two physical areas hundreds of miles apart from each other. While many consider “ Who Moved My Cheese?

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Lessons Learned: Work in small batches

Startup Lessons Learned

Similar results apply in product management, design, testing, and even operations. Take the example of a design team prepping mock-ups for their development team. Give the dev team your very first sketches and let them get started. Today, I want to talk about the reasons smaller batches are better.

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Do You Need to Be a Developer to Found a Web Startup?

thenetsetter.com

Even less-obvious founders like the internet media personality and Digg founder Kevin Rose actually began in computer science. In the cases of all the founders I just mentioned the answer was yes. This is better than hiring for a number of reasons: Hiring a good developer is not cheap.

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Building Your MVP as a Non-Technical Founder

SoCal CTO

I did a presentation this week at Coloft that looked at how Non-Technical Founders can go about getting their MVP built. There are a few cases where you somewhat need to see the system operating to have a sense of the value. And the back-end is something that a non-technical founder can manage. WordPress is pretty easy to hack.