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How Can FinTech Industry Successfully Navigate the Complex Web of Cybersecurity

The Startup Magazine

Rate limiters govern the frequency or quantity of user or IP requests, which helps to prevent distributed denial of service attacks. Assurance of Quality The testing stage of the software product development process is vital. They are highly detrimental to FinTechs because many APIs lack rate limiters.

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A Startup CTO’s Take on Early Technology Choices & Tradeoffs

View from Seed

Tools, especially broader tools like programming languages, come with a lot of baggage, an attitude or even a philosophy on software development. For example, we picked Clojure for our development work. It means you’ve set up good tooling so that developers can attack problems quickly without a lot of grunt work.

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Why Build, Measure, Learn – isn’t just throwing things against the wall to see if they work

Steve Blank

Waterfall Development. While it sounds simple , the Build Measure Learn approach to product development is a radical improvement over the traditional Waterfall model used throughout the 20 th century to build and ship products. The “build” step refers to building a minimal viable product (an MVP.) Lessons Learned.

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The Customer Development Manifesto: Reasons for the Revolution.

Steve Blank

After 20 years of working in startups, I decided to take a step back and look at the product development model I had been following and see why it usually failed to provide useful guidance in activities outside the building – sales, marketing and business development. So what’s wrong the product development model?

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What Do Diversity Hiring and Work From Home Jobs Have in Common?

Transformify

Instead of paying ridiculously high rent in San Francisco or London, startups and small businesses can spend on product development and marketing, thus tremendously increasing the chances of successful market entry and expansion. Work from home and remote work also significantly cut office costs.

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Good enough never is (or is it?)

Startup Lessons Learned

One of the sayings I hear from talented managers in product development is, “good enough never is.&# And, most importantly, it helps team members develop the courage to stand up for these values in stressful situations. We already know who to distribute the product to (or else why would we care what they think?).

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. I am heavily indebted to earlier theorists, and highly recommend the books Lean Thinking and Lean Software Development. The lean startup is an application of Lean Thinking. No more, no less.

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