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Understanding the Regulatory Process throughout your next Hardware Product Design

The Startup Magazine

Designing new hardware products that have a positive impact on customers is no small feat. There are several elements that go into hardware product design that taps an unaddressed customer need, has the customer WOW factor, and succeeds long term in the market. By: Kevin Bailey, CEO at Design 1st.

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The evolution of early stage investing in the UK

The Equity Kicker

The second development is SEIS and EIS. Along with many other governments around the world ours believes that a healthy startup ecosystem is critical to the future long term economic health of the country. However, finding and assessing investment opportunities is still a difficult and time consuming business.

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Does Scrum Apply To All Types Of Projects?

The Startup Magazine

Here are the scrum components: Roles: Team, Product owner, Scrum Master and Team. Events: Sprint planning meeting, Release planning, Daily scrum meeting, Review meeting and Sprint retrospective. Design and execution is innovative and experimental. Company wants to improve existing T-shirt: design and colour.

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Survival Tips From A Seasoned Digital Nomad Who Made It Out The Other Side

YoungUpstarts

Make risk assessments based on potential geographic location. If establishing physical offices in a developing country, split them into at least two physical areas hundreds of miles apart from each other. VISA run rules change frequently so keep an eye on the latest government updates. They founded Free Event Finder.

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Datablindness

Startup Lessons Learned

You constantly assess the situation, looking for hazards and timing your movements carefully to get across safely. It was pretty ugly, the marketing and design sucked, and I was embarrassed by it. So the product development team was busy creating lots of split-tests for lots of hypotheses. Yet it had one huge advantage.

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Lean Startup at Scale

Startup Lessons Learned

But we couldn''t have identified this without having clear metrics (that high bug count) to assess our development process. So, depending on which team you are talking to at Shutterstock, we may be Lean Startup or Agile or Kanban or some other method depending on the type of problem that team is designed to solve.

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Why Your Startup Can’t Afford To NOT Hire a CTO

konamoxt.com

Leading the architecture and technical direction of the product - This is closely related to leading the development team, but it is really a different skill set. And in those cases, you probably will see more CTOs who are expect to not only lead, and design, but also code.