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Vision Pivots vs. Discovery Pivots

SVPG

I've heard teams refer to a "pivot" of their technology stack (e.g. from Java to Ruby), or a "pivot" of their development process (e.g. Mostly the different uses of the term are pretty harmless. It is often used as a synonym for "change."

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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

Every startup faces multiple choices and decisions when it comes to technology. Ruby Toolbox. Sinatra : Super easy to use, the only drawback is that you have to learn ruby setup your database. s free, supports ruby, nodejs, static files, and a few other languages. Rails (Ruby). Ad Serving Technology.

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How To Scale a Development Team

adam.heroku.com

Most technology companies hit a wall with dev team scalability somewhere around ten developers. For example: full-fledged SCRUM, heavyweight tools like Jira, or hiring a project manager or engineering manager. As hackers, we’re familiar with the need to scale web servers, databases, and other software systems.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

The idea is that this allows you to get much more clear about what you want to achieve, whats possible with current technology, what other people are doing, how long it might take and how much it is likely to cost. I am a Ruby on Rails programmer and have written the first line of code for a few startups. Click on my name for the link.