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How can startups engage with Google?

VC Cafe

In this post, I’ll try to organise the various startup engagement and outreach programs at Google. This most likely involves a combination of an operational team (cloud, enterprise, commerce, etc) and the corporate development team, led by Don Harrison. This is where it starts getting a bit more complicated.

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Lessons Learned: Work in small batches

Startup Lessons Learned

Take the example of a design team prepping mock-ups for their development team. Give the dev team your very first sketches and let them get started. And over time, the development team may be able to start anticipating your needs. That frees up even more development resources, and so on.

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The Principles of Product Development Flow

Startup Lessons Learned

He shows how the actions of people inside traditional systems are motivated by their rational assessment of their own economics. Reinertsen does not speak about startups specifically - his book is meant to speak broadly to product development teams across industries and sectors. Wow, great review!

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Lessons Learned: The product manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

But I have a special sympathy for the "product manager" in a startup that is bringing a new product to a new market, and doing their work in large batches. I met one recently that is working on a really innovative product, and the stories I heard from their development team made me want to cringe. Amazon PostRank

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HOW TO: Build an App for Your Small Business

mashable.com

TheyMakeApps.com is a good resource if you’re looking for a competent mobile dev agency. Here, developers and dev shops are organized by vertical so you can find a shop that has expertise in the kind of app you want to build. View More » Jobs VP of Sales at Mashable (New York, Ne. PM OK, agree.

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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. I suddenly lose my ability to judge if our marketing programs are being effective. So the product development team was busy creating lots of split-tests for lots of hypotheses. Use pilot programs.

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Lessons Learned: The ABCDEF's of conducting a technical interview

Startup Lessons Learned

If done right, a programming interview serves two purposes simultaneously. The technical interview is at the heart of these challenges when building a product development team, and so I thought it deserved an entire post on its own. Still, a startup product development team is a service organization.