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Using independent teams to scale a small company: A look at how games company Wooga works

The Next Web

Four years ago we had around 20 employees and now there are more than 250 employees from 40 nations all working in our Berlin office. While that employee growth is a byproduct of economic success, in the process of growing it was a big challenge to not lose the company culture we had built. This works quite organically.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

AgileZen – project management visually see and interact with your work Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

Dont make cheap skate equity offers, with programmer getting equity share of first employee and salary of founder(nothing or next to nothing). Jouni Osmala (2010-06-20) # Now if you dont have enough money to actually pay programmers what they want. Learn programming with python language and do 1.0