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7 Highlights from Lean Startup Week

Startup Lessons Learned

To confidently answer no, co-founder of Strategyzer Alex Osterwalder told our attendees, “What you really want to do is work more like Amazon. … To support the three Cs, ING has also developed their own iterative practice named PACE. You’re kind of looking for founders,” not friends, remarked Jeff. “If

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Rally Software Acquired By CA Technologies for $480 Million

Feld Thoughts

Or if you want to go back to 2004 and 2005 when I was really learning about Agile, well before it had become a household name, you could read my posts Agile Software Development with SCRUM or Do You Develop Software For A Living? – Get Agile with Rally Release 5. Million To The Boulder Community after their IPO.

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How groupthink and denial can ruin startups

The Next Web

Investor and 500 Startups founder Dave McClure offered TNW a few of his thoughts. Scrum and large group discussions can be useful during the customer discovery phase of the business, but decisions should be based on what’s driving customers as opposed to the subjective. You know what’s cool? A billion dollars.”

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Lessons Learned: Combining agile development with customer development

Startup Lessons Learned

XP and Scrum don’t have much to say - they punt. If you look at the origins of most agile systems, including Scrum and XP , they come out of experiences in big companies. Both Scrum and XP had a role which you could happily call by the modern title "Product Manager". Embedded in that assumption is why startups fail.

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Should Your Startup Be an Agile Company

Women Entrepreneurs Can

The goal of this article is to look at this decision from a number of viewpoints and to try and guide startup founders towards a decision that will make the most sense for them. Jug Babic is a marketer at VivifyScrum , a company that developed the agile project management software by the same name. Hence, this article. How Big Are You?

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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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Should You Co-Found Your Company With a Software Development Shop (2 of 2)?

David Teten

What are the terms of their relationship with the founder? I’ve also asked this question on Quora.There, I ask for advice on how to best structure this for all parties: The development shop, the founders (outside of the dev shop), and potential outside investors. What are the timelines? The discounts? The cliffs? The fine print?