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Lightspeed is growing our Consumer Investing team

Lightspeed Venture Partners

He’s the cofounder and former CTO of LivingSocial, and over the past few years has angel invested in companies such as Shyp, LendingHome, Walker & Co, and also sits on the board of a YC alumni ThinAir. His nickname is Tank and I wouldn’t have minded having him as a teammate in my rugby playing days either, holding me up in the scrum!

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

See Customer Development Engineering for my first stab at articulating the theory involved) Ferocious customer-centric rapid iteration, as exemplified by the Customer Development process. I would add -- think of your development and running your business like a PM/Developer uses Agile or Scrum in software development. No more, no less.

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Lessons Learned: A new version of the Joel Test (draft)

Startup Lessons Learned

At IMVU , our engineering team accumulated thousands upon thousands of tests, and we had a build cluster (using BuildBot ) that ran them. There are several ways to make progress evident - the Scrum team model is my current favorite. At IMVU, our rule was that a new engineer needed to push code to production on their first day.

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Social, Agile, and Transformation: Strategic Agile Thinking: Balancing Value, Innovation and Research

ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

The implementation and architecture can also suffer if the team under or over invests engineering time, implementation of standards, or testing discipline in the wrong areas. startup cto. (18). Strategic Technology. No Scrum Master? This, in some way, is a byproduct of self organization. about me. (26). cloud computing.

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Oppose HB 1192 – The “Software Tax”

VC Adventure

I grew up on a family potato farm in SE Idaho and I have a PhD in Engineering from Stanford (also known as The Farm). I have been in the technology industry for 30+ years. I serve as adjunct faculty at the University of Denver, where I head up a graduate program division in healthcare information technology within University College.

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Behind Every Great Product

SVPG

If you think the product manager job is what’s described in a Certified Scrum Product Owner class, you almost certainly fall into this category. Necessity being the mother of invention, this is where the queue, the ratings system, and the recommendation engine all came from. So the team got to work.

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Should You Co-Found Your Company With a Software Development Shop (2 of 2)?

David Teten

Strong support from serial founders, engineers, and other specialized resources that are particularly relevant to the earliest days of a company can overcome that hurdle and (in theory at least) yield companies that otherwise wouldn’t be built. HappyFunCorp employs 80 engineers and product architects. Rock Health).