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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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Massacre at IBM

Steve Blank

Long before there was the Lean Startup, Business Model Canvas or Customer Development there was a guy in Santa Barbara California who had already figured it out. The inspection- system GM decided to use it for his fourth-generation system, an 18-month program. We did a quick overview of the product.

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Lessons Learned: Stevey's Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile

Startup Lessons Learned

Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile : "Google is an exceptionally disciplined company, from a software-engineering perspective. They work hard to keep their house in order at all times, and there are strict rules and guidelines in place that prevent engineers and teams from doing things their own way. Expo SF (May.

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

Rob Go

Olin College Foundry Program. link] – Not a meetup, but a great mentorship program started by serial CTO Sean Lindsay. Startup Institute – Practical training program to prepare you to join a startup. Lean Startup Circle Boston – Meetup dedicated to the lean startup and customer development methodology.

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Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and what's changed since.

Startup Lessons Learned

I thought a good place to start was with the origins of the idea that "software design" should be considered a discipline in its own right, on par with computer science, software engineering, and computer programming. The same might be said of good software. How does Set Based Concurrent Engineering help?

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

Austin Startup

family of brands), I was there to source the absolute best talent for the Product Management summer internship program in order to continue to push HomeAway’s agenda to develop a Tier 1 workforce. Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies.

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Out of the Crisis #13: Alpha Lee on remembering the 2003 SARS epidemic and his opensource COVID-19 Moonshot

Startup Lessons Learned

As Alpha explained, it's "not in any way tied to PostEra's commercial operations. When the shelter in place orders began, Alpha found himself living in a tiny Airbnb with his other co-founders, Having just arrived from the UK to do the start up program, YCombinator. It's solely used to make and test compounds against COVID."