Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 16, 2009

In most agile development systems, there is a notion of the "product backlog" a prioritized list of what software is most valuable to be developed next. The breakthrough idea of agile is that software should be built iteratively, with the pieces that customers value most created first. Hes often felt that there was something missing.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

As informed by agile software development , some of the basic ideas behind running a startup the agile way include: Welcoming change. If you are a software startup, i.e. you plan on developing a software solution to sell, you will almost inevitably be agile. Improved adaptability. Putting the product/service on the market early.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

A unanimous agreement on a name without prompting supports a “thumbs up” rating on this attribute. For example, the project kick-off play requires the team to name the Driver, Approver, Contributor(s), and Informed members for the project, instead of just assuming that all members know their role. There are trade-offs for each asset.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Research, Web prototyping, Testing and Building Tools Lists of Tools from Others HBS Startup Tribe Tools List – from Tom Eisenmann at HBS PBworks startup tools List Startup Foundry tools list Small Business tools list Groups Lean Startup Circle – Google Group for startup advice Startup Weekend – Launch a Startup in 54 hours The Lean (..)

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Task Management. Project Management Tools. Add a class name to buttons, forms, quotes, etc. Subscription Payments / Management. Managing APIs. Customer Relationship Management. Contractor Management. Private beta invitations & management: Prefinery. Scanning / Document Management.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

You’re going to tell Jason and Bob just the name of your URL, nothing else, and see if Jason can figure out what it is. It helps you manage, at first a checking account, is where the name came from, through text messaging. It does a lot more than that now, but that’s where the name came from. Jason: Chext?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Heres something I can relate to: We used assembla for subversion, scrums, milestones, wikis, and for general organizational purposes. Scrum reports would come in once a month, nobody was actually responsible for anything. My favorite instance of this is scheduling software. While simple, it is easy to manage.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

In this episode, Peter and Jonathan discuss Kaizen, Kanban, and Scrum methodology and how they can be applied to small businesses. They also chat about recent changes at Zappos, and the CFO of Palo Alto Software Trevor Betenson talks about human resources and conflict resolution. Atlassian: A Brief Introduction to Scrum.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

When I first decided to start The Silicon Valley Product Group, I had just left eBay and had some very strong opinions about what makes great product teams, and great product cultures, and while there were more than a few important thinkers and leaders on these topics, one area that I felt was under-represented was the role of product management.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

To achieve this level of synergy, Dialpad partnered with Demandbase, an account-based marketing software platform. Do this by creating Scrum-style squads with individual contributors from each department working together on specified accounts. Demandbase gives salespeople full visibility over lead nurturing and marketing activities.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

It is so true, but non-tech managers usually try to ignore the facts away. I have never seen (or even heard of) a normal team in your average large organization ever learn to manage technical debt dynamically. Let's consider cases: Can you have a piece of software with good product design and bad technical design?

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Each document has a from-language, to-language, and a name. For example: in my translation site story, above, the first milestone might be just a plain ugly web page where a company can create an account, create a new project, then upload named documents into that project. Sandcastle is a software development service for entrepreneurs.

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