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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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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

.” Hackernews list of “Tools of the Trade” for startups - includes over 150 SaaS tools used by startups, and over 150 comments with interesting insights from founders. Ruby Toolbox. Sinatra : Super easy to use, the only drawback is that you have to learn ruby setup your database. Rails (Ruby).

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How To Scale a Development Team

adam.heroku.com

Founders and early employees tend to be very self-directed so the need for management is nearly non-existent. For example: full-fledged SCRUM, heavyweight tools like Jira, or hiring a project manager or engineering manager. Everyone is a generalist and works on a little bit of everything. Don’t do that stuff.

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Lessons Learned: Built to learn

Startup Lessons Learned

sachinrekhi : "Visionary customers are as smart if not smarter then the founders" #leanstartup Theres no skipping the chasm. However, for those who werent able to get in (or are real gluttons for punishment), I will be speaking the night before at a free event hosted by The Vancouver Ruby/Rails/Merb Meetup Group. You can register here.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

I am a Ruby on Rails programmer and have written the first line of code for a few startups. Programmers, and certainly not the visionary founders, are the most qualified for that task. #6 Dont make cheap skate equity offers, with programmer getting equity share of first employee and salary of founder(nothing or next to nothing).