crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 6, 2014

The Right Way To Do A Software ROI Analysis | Feld Thoughts – crowdspring.co/1jQOLR4. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Interesting experiment in Sweden (6 hour work days, with a control group) | Fast Company – crowdspring.co/1unc4cV.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. I am heavily indebted to earlier theorists, and highly recommend the books Lean Thinking and Lean Software Development. Of course, many startups are capital efficient and generally frugal. No more, no less.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

We wanted an agile approach that would allow us to build our software architecture as we needed it, without downtime, but also without large amounts of up-front cost. After all, the worst kind of waste in software development is code to support a use case that never materializes. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, February 20, 2009 Work in small batches Software should be designed, written, and deployed in small batches. For software, the easiest batch to see is code. When something goes wrong with production software, its almost always because of an unintended side-effect of some piece of code.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

Of all the tactics I have advocated as part of the lean startup , none has provoked as many extreme reactions as continuous deployment , a process that allows companies to release software in minutes instead of days, weeks, or months. All customers will see the new software as soon as it’s deployed.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

Although Catalyst folded with the dot-com crash, Ries continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com, leading efforts in agile software development and user-generated content. I know many people who think that software works like magic, but to me it actually was magic. hey eric, love the blog.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile : "Google is an exceptionally disciplined company, from a software-engineering perspective. But its helpful to take a detailed look inside the highly agile process used by Google to ship software. I think you can safely ignore the rantings about "bad agile" and the bad people who promote it.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 30, 2009

I thought Id share a little bit of that, too: I’ve been interested in different approaches to software development going back to 1987 when – in my first company Feld Technologies – my partner Dave Jilk and I started talking about “semi-custom software development&# (way ahead of its time). Read the rest.

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Babbling VC

FEBRUARY 17, 2013

Device Ident is a startup founded in 2012 and sells online fraud prevention software as well as services since January of this year. Sales is focussed on Europe, specifically the DACH region, UK, France, Sweden and Russia. . Below is the actual job description which will eventually be online but right now, is only posted here.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

In addition to presenting the IMVU case, we tried for the first time to do an overview of a software engineering methodology that integrates practices from agile software development with Steves method of Customer Development. Can this methodology be used for startups that are not exclusively about software?

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2013

The madness is best summed up in the Yiddish and there are several variations: meshuggah (which Merriam Webster defines as crazy or foolish, but also happens to be a metal band from Sweden! ), meshugener (a foolish or crazy person), and (for our purposes here) mishegoss defined as general craziness, or a senseless behavior or activity.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

It uses principles of agile software development, open source and web 2.0, Hey Someone else who is extending the agile/lean approach beyond just developing software. a guide for hackers) You buy virtual goods The free software hiring advantage Continuous deployment and continuous learning The lean startup @ Web 2.0

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 2, 2008 On deployment My favorite question to ask a software development team is "how do you do a release." How long does the software sit un-deployed? Software is generally always getting better or getting worse. You can tell a lot about a company from their deployment flow.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Its inspired by the classic OODA Loop and is really just a simplified version of that concept, applied specifically to creating a software product development team. Were a software company, so what we do everyday is turn ideas into code. There are three stages: We start with ideas about what our product could be.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

It is becoming easier and cheaper for companies to bring products to market, leveraging free and open source software , cloud computing, open social data (Facebook, OpenSocial ), and open distribution (AdWords, SEO). Agile software development. Agile allows companies to build higher quality software faster.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

I am convinced one of Joel Spolskys lasting contributions to the field of managing software teams will turn out to be the Joel Test , a checklist of 12 essential practices that you could use to rate the effectiveness of a software product development team. Please leave feedback!) They just dont happen.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2010

Kent Beck is deservedly famous for his many contributions in the software industry. Kent Beck is deservedly famous for his many contributions in the software industry. Do you know the difference between Durant and Sloan ? If not, youd better watch video of his talk ASAP. And then you can buy a t-shirt. And then you can buy a t-shirt.

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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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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 18, 2010

This case presents a further complication: desktop software. Without being able transparently modify the software in situ, is it still possible to deploy on a continuous basis? Continuous Deployment is a process by which software is released several times throughout the day – in minutes versus days, weeks, or months.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 3, 2018

Vaimo (Sweden). Silk Software Corp. This list is compiled to help E-commerce players choose providers of Magento Support Services. It shows some of the best who have proven track records in their respective areas. Mobecls (Belarus). Isobar Commerce (Hongkong SAR China). Corra (USA). Redbox Digital (UK). Smile SAS (France). Optaros Inc.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 5, 2010

Four Steps primarily centers its stories and case studies on B2B hardware and software startups. Four Steps primarily centers its stories and case studies on B2B hardware and software startups. This new volume also tackles examples from the Internet and wireless startups of today, both B2B and B2C.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 25, 2009

Agile Vancouver : Lean Development for Lean Times On Tuesday April 21st, we are hosting an afternoon event on the application of Lean Principles to software development. This workshop brings together leading thinkers from Lean Production and Lean software. Please register to attend this event as space will be limited.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

They just assumed it was the way software companies worked. Unfortunately, threats work a lot better at incentivizing people to CYA than getting them to write quality software. When I first encountered agile software techniques, in the form of extreme programming , I thought I had found the answer. Sound good? It didnt work.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 1, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 1, 2008 Test-Driven Development as andon cord You cannot control what you cannot see, and the hardest part of managing software projects is that the final product is so intangible. In almost all Agile Development systems, thousands of automated tests are run against every change to the software.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

More recently it's skewed to software & web. Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and what. I remember thinking then how much better it was than Chicago, where I'd spent the previous 8 years. Technically you argue it goes back 30 years when StorageTek was founded. There used to be a ton of storage startups here.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

It became harder and harder to separate how the software is built from how the software is structured. If not, whos going to insist we switch to free and open source software? But along the way, something strange happened. How can it work if some folks are pre-building and others use five whys to drive decisions?

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2008

So the product manager winds up actually having to use the software, by hand, updating the spec and helping create a new test plan. The fourth spec exists only in these emails, which are changing the design in an ad-hoc fashion. By the time QA gets the feature, their test plan is badly out of date. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 27, 2009

It uses principles of agile software development, open source and web 2.0, Ship new software at a dizzying pace: multiple times a day while improving quality and lowering costs. and lean manufacturing to guide the creation of technology businesses that create disruptive innovation. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 28, 2009

Or, phrased more hopefully, "I see how you can use continuous deployment to run an online consumer service, but how can it be used for B2B software?" That continuous deployment leads to lower quality software than software built in large batches. Or variations thereof. Implicit in these concerns are two beliefs: 1.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

For software, we have many - you can enjoy a nice long list on Wikipedia. Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, November 8, 2008 What is customer development? When we build products, we use a methodology. But too often when its time to think about customers, marketing, positioning, or PR, we delegate it to "marketroids" or "suits."

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

We combined three tactics: extensive use of free software, an open platform for user-generated content, and leveraged distribution channels. In that same spirit, here are some suggestions for tactics you can use to increase the leverage of your product development efforts: Free and open source software (and even hardware ).

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

It felt like software that grownups were supposed to use, and we didnt qualify. It cost us a few hundred thousand dollars to get our app up and running, but none of that was dollars spent on software licenses or professional services. I dont really remember why it didnt work. It wouldnt boot. It would boot and crash. yeah, its awesome.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

His post is ostensibly about how often to release new work (whether youre a blog writer, movie star, software team.) I’ve been in the software industry for a long time. But Seth Godin is a great writer, so I dont see why I cant crib from him whenever. That’s all fine and dandy. Is that mass all that critical?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 17, 2009

I plan to apply these models to my own ventures, especially within new contexts separate from software and web development. Although Im not a developer, I am captivated by the lean and agile start-up model that you write about. The problem is that the most authentic innovators and entrepreneurs are in the Valley.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 2, 2009

My son is planning a software product that will take the mystery out of wikis and make the technology easier for consumers to use. Retention cohort analysis. Funnel averages over time. You can read the article to find out why. 3comments: Charles Crawford said. Thank you for this excellent article. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

MUDs made the essential truth about software into a powerful metaphor: that code is magic, giving those who wield it the ability to create new forms of value literally out of thin air. a guide for hackers) You buy virtual goods The free software hiring advantage Continuous deployment and continuous learning The lean startup @ Web 2.0

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

So heres the question that I pose to you - our startup helps software companies develop a scalable revenue engine in the form of software-specific hardware devices. In these examples I was selling enterprise software where the vocab matched perfectly. People talk about funding funding funding, bootstrapping, etc.,

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