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Rally Software Acquired By CA Technologies for $480 Million

Feld Thoughts

Or if you want to go back to 2004 and 2005 when I was really learning about Agile, well before it had become a household name, you could read my posts Agile Software Development with SCRUM or Do You Develop Software For A Living? – Tim Miller (CEO) and Ryan Martens (CTO, founder) have been working together from the start of the journey.

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Lightspeed is growing our Consumer Investing team

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Since then, as a team, we’ve been fortunate enough to invest behind the vision of the founders of some tremendous consumer companies across messaging, social media, e-commerce, Internet of Things, marketplaces and gaming. But I was the first person to solely focus on consumer investing.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

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.

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Startups and a Common Misunderstanding in Agile Software Development

SoCal CTO

I've done four Free CTO Consulting Sessions in the past month with startup founders who all had run into variations of the same problem. Investors and early customers were becoming worried about the ability of the founder to deliver. Investors and early customers were becoming worried about the ability of the founder to deliver.

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

Startup Lessons Learned

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?

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7 Highlights from Lean Startup Week

Startup Lessons Learned

With industries from banking to transportation being transformed and, in some instances, undermined by new business models and technology, executives are smart to wonder, “Are we next?” To confidently answer no, co-founder of Strategyzer Alex Osterwalder told our attendees, “What you really want to do is work more like Amazon. …

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The most valuable lessons I learned from managing a virtual team

The Next Web

Denis Duvauchelle is the CEO and co-founder of Twoodo , the ultimate online collaboration tool. “I I feel isolated without an office.”. Entire conversations would take place when the CTO and I were in China whilst the CMO/designer was left to catch up hours later through chat or a rehashed conversation.