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Sprint Like An Egyptian: A Tech Entrepreneurship Revolution in Alexandria

Gust

Distributed teams can work across multiple countries in ways that make the most efficient use of human capital. Silicon Arabia has engineers in Russia as well as Egypt.)

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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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An ongoing discussion on linkedin about Offshore Web Development and building a team in Europe.

Scalable Startup

Work directly with engineers, no company involved. To start off you should focus on working with a company that offers you direct access to engineers and is willing to work as an extended branch for your team. Also, it is not about the engineering talent only! Hire them 8 hours at a time and review daily by skype, g hangout.

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How to Scale Organic Traffic (Without Writing a Million Blog Posts)

ConversionXL

It’s more than just a distribution channel. In each case, an extension to the existing solution was shipped in a search engine–friendly way and now drives a lot of organic traffic, while also improving the product. First, they have to be publicly accessible for users and search engines. Quora Spaces. Twitter moments.

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Managing Risk and Improving Efficiency of the Supply Chain

Up and Running

The consequent increase in complexity of market, channel, supply networks and distributed facilities has rendered related planning more intricate and complex.”. See Also: How to Solve Problems in Your Business: Kanban, Kaizen, and Scrum. Some of those vendors may be overseas, which is why having a backup stateside is essential.

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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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