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4 Questions To Ask Before You Hire An App Developer

YoungUpstarts

The startup industry is littered with stories of founders being taken for a ride by their app developer. The key to choosing an app developer is research. Here are four critical questions to ask both yourself and an app developer before making the decision to engage them to design and deliver your app. The apps they have built.

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Open Innovation in DC

Startup Lessons Learned

Something interesting is happening in Washington, DC right now. And as always, I emphasized the need to develop new tools to work in this new way, what I call entrepreneurial management and innovation accounting ( read the book to get the full scoop). Right now, all three are present in DC.

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Lessons Learned: Combining agile development with customer development

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, March 16, 2009 Combining agile development with customer development Today I read an excellent blog post that I just had to share. In most agile development systems, there is a notion of the "product backlog" a prioritized list of what software is most valuable to be developed next.

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Greenhouse CEO Daniel Chait on how AI is changing human resources and weaning his company off venture funding via private equity

Hunter Walker

DC: As a lifelong entrepreneur, Greenhouse is now basically the largest company I’ve been a part of (and has been for several years) so I’ve had to learn a ton over the years about how to scale myself. Is it an evolution or a revolution for your business and customers? DC: Yes – this is such an important question!

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Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. Ive attempted to embed the relevant slides below. Talk about waste.

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The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development

Startup Lessons Learned

I believe it is the best introduction to Customer Development you can buy. As all of you know, Steve Blank is the progenitor of Customer Development and author of The Four Steps to the Epiphany. I have personally sold many copies of his book, and continue to recommend it as one of the most important books a startup founder can read.

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Accelerator Spotlight: Caesar Sustainability

View from Seed

I’m Connor Cash, the founder of Caesar and I grew up outside of Boston but currently live in DC! One hour I’m deep into product development, the next I’m thinking about our hiring needs and recruiting, to the next on a sales call. RH: What’s your favorite thing about being an early-stage founder? And your least?

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