YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 7, 2018
by Humberto Farias, CEO and co-founder at Concepta. One example would be generating order confirmation emails after a customer completes a purchase online. The digital revolution is disrupting the traditional business model for small and medium businesses (SMBs).
Feld Thoughts
MAY 28, 2015
Ryan was encouraged to team up with Tim and shortly after that happened we co-led the first round VC financing with Boulder Ventures. Tim Miller (CEO) and Ryan Martens (CTO, founder) have been working together from the start of the journey. It has been a rocket ship from there. Get Agile with Rally Release 5.
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Startup Lessons Learned
MARCH 16, 2009
XP and Scrum don’t have much to say - they punt. If you look at the origins of most agile systems, including Scrum and XP , they come out of experiences in big companies. Both Scrum and XP had a role which you could happily call by the modern title "Product Manager". Embedded in that assumption is why startups fail.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 15, 2008
I would add -- think of your development and running your business like a PM/Developer uses Agile or Scrum in software development. Mark Montgomery Founder Kyield Initium VC September 12, 2009 4:21 AM Mark Montgomery said. The wise entrepreneur will take this advice seriously in order to distill his ideas down to their essence.
Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 5, 2008
They exchange countless emails, and hes being constantly interrupted and being asked to clarify exactly what the spec means. The fourth spec exists only in these emails, which are changing the design in an ad-hoc fashion. Eventually, I hope to get them on a full agile diet, with TDD, scrums, sprints, pair programming, and more.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 10, 2008
There are several ways to make progress evident - the Scrum team model is my current favorite. If you have a true cross-functional team, empowered (a la Scrum) to do whatever it takes to succeed its likely they will converge on the result quickly. When its receding, we rescope. Do you have a spec? Want to learn more about me?
Startup Lessons Learned
DECEMBER 14, 2017
Guest Post by Misti Yang, Writer for Lean Startup Co. To confidently answer no, co-founder of Strategyzer Alex Osterwalder told our attendees, “What you really want to do is work more like Amazon. … You’re kind of looking for founders,” not friends, remarked Jeff. “If Second, don’t simply hire your buddies. It's amazing.”
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