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Eric Ries and Kent Beck Discuss Product Development

Startup Lessons Learned

Currently at Facebook, Kent has pioneered effective software development, co-authoring the Agile Manifesto , which modernized product development, and writing a slew of books with practical advice for engineering teams. At a conference I overheard a couple of programmers make a snarky comment about Test-Driven Development.

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How To Prevent Gaps in An Innovative Startup Strategy

Startup Professionals Musings

In fact, it’s all about the “focus” required to get early stage technology products across the deadly chasm from early adopters to mainstream customers. Missions and products that are too broad confuse your team, your customers, and potential investors. Product development chasm.

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, July 29, 2009 Embrace technical debt Financial debt plays an important and positive role in our economy under normal conditions. Technical debt works the same way, and has the same perils. I won’t pretend that there aren’t teams that take on technical debt for bad reasons.

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Why The Government is Isn’t a Bigger Version of a Startup

Steve Blank

One of the unintended consequences was that many of the academics went off to found a wave of startups selling their technology to the military. Yet the development of these advanced technologies is now being driven by commercial interests, not the Defense Department. Some of the speed is simply due to development methodologies.

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Tech Support *is* sales

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

You probably think of "tech support" as the bottom of the food chain. After all: Tech support deals with insane customers. Tech support answers the phone; a job even salesmen don't want. Tech support keeps angry customers at bay while having no power to effect change. Tech support is sales. Yep, that sounds lowly.

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CEO Fires 90% of Staff, Replaces Them with AI Bot

ReadWriteStart

Due to their versatility and efficiency, AI-powered customer support bots have grown in popularity in recent years. Any question from a customer, from a simple request for information to a complex technical issue, can be answered by one of these bots. Q: Are there concerns about job security due to the adoption of AI bots?

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How Can FinTech Industry Successfully Navigate the Complex Web of Cybersecurity

The Startup Magazine

According to Atos, a European multinational information technology services and consulting business, $50 billion is invested in FinTech annually. It should include doing background checks and reviewing their security rules and practices. Secure Data Communication Another crucial procedure requires the use of encryption technologies.