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Amsterdam-based Rockstart Accelerator’s first graduates head to Silicon Valley

The Next Web

In all seriousness, the Q&A panel session will include European entrepreneurs like Guillaume Decugis, who sold Musiwave for $125 million and is currently co-founder and CEO of Scoop.it, and Unity Technologies co-founder and CEO David Helgason (read our interview with him ). Ideedock : a Q&A platform for employees in enterprises.

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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and in 2009 he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership. That institution will touch many people in its life: customers, investors, employees, and everyone they touch as well. November 25, 2009 9:54 AM Danny Wong said.

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Lessons Learned: Combining agile development with customer development

Startup Lessons Learned

In the case of C3, that was to run payroll for 87,000 employees, who were presumably receiving payroll before the project began. What causes projects like this to fail in traditional software development is that the solution is unknown. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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The Lean Startup at Agile Vancouver April 21st

Startup Lessons Learned

Agile Vancouver : Lean Development for Lean Times On Tuesday April 21st, we are hosting an afternoon event on the application of Lean Principles to software development. This workshop brings together leading thinkers from Lean Production and Lean software. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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How to conduct a Five Whys root cause analysis

Startup Lessons Learned

For example, I often cite a real example of a problem that has as its root cause a new employee who was not properly trained. I pick that example on purpose, for two reasons: 1) most of the companies I work with deal with this problem and yet 2) almost none of them have any kind of training program in place for new employees.

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Good enough never is (or is it?)

Startup Lessons Learned

Lean manufacturing , agile software development , and Theory of Constraints are all examples of this idea in action. Entrepreneurs, faced with an early defeat, might lose their commitment to seeing their vision through. However, a commitment to quality alone is not enough. This critique combines two misunderstandings in one.

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The Steve Jobs method

Startup Lessons Learned

We might be a ways away from the reality of a Chief Engineer or Product Director role commonly in software development, but ultimately it's going to be a matter of getting the culture right so that people stick around long enough to develop not only the tactical skills, but also the honed instincts and senses.