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Build Predictable Startup Models by Forming an Agency

ReadWriteStart

Industry-specific domain experience becomes critical when identifying operational pain points ripe for transformation. This outside work provides a valuable source of revenue able to be used to fund operations. This provides both valuable experience and an understanding of the operational issues within each sector.

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Out of the Ashes - Something Isn't Quite Right

Steve Blank

No one was actually quite that good, but some VCs had “golden guts” for these kinds of operating issues. I’m a software engineer by trade, so I’m always interested in some better way to do things, whether they are in software or in business processes or organizations. Would you mind sharing them?

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Boston Tech Community (Fall 2013 Edition)

Rob Go

Mass TLC Unconference: Large annual conference put on by the MA Technology Leadership Council. Lean Startup Circle Boston – Meetup dedicated to the lean startup and customer development methodology. Dog Patch Labs – Shared workspace operated by Polaris Ventures. Extension Engine - Software engineering and design.

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Customer Development is Not a Focus Group

Steve Blank

The reaction from our software guys was a little less kind. “Are Do you understand you are doubling the amount of work you are going to make for generations of software engineers? Reply My take on Customer Development and the Lean Startup | Recess Mobile Blog , on January 9, 2010 at 5:29 am Said: [.] Then WHAT it IS?

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SuperMac War Story 10: The Video Spigot « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

But the team believed adding video as an integral part of an operating system and user experience (where there had only been text and still images) would be transformative. And, of course, Adobe said, “Oh, by the way, you don’t mind if the software engineer comes with us, do you?” Adobe renamed ReelTime to Adobe Premiere.

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So you say you want to be a Product Manager …?

Austin Startup

Hard skills such as data analytics are essential to being successful as a product manager, but equally-valued are soft skills such as communication, collaboration and leadership. so that the talent, the designers, engineers, analysts and data scientists, can focus on their core work. I learned that software engineers?—?or

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Labor Day! Let’s Celebrate the Workers

crowdSPRING Blog

“The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.” John (Shuo) Yang is our Senior Software engineer and one of the smartest people I have ever met. Adriano Marques is our wonderful Brazilian Software Engineer, recently immigrated to the US. Thanks, guys!

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