SoCal CTO

APRIL 9, 2013

Different firms will have very different skill sets: Do you need user interface design? Graphic design? You will find firms that are design/interface heavy and light on development. Most of the rest of the post is going to focus more on finding development rather than design firms. Or are you starting from scratch?

Web Development 204

Web Development Web Developer Los Angeles 204

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 3, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, March 3, 2009 Employees should be masters of their own time Every startup should have a culture of learning. The rule is simple: every employee is 100% responsible for how they spend their time. The suggestion is that you implement one single company-wide rule. I asked why.

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Employee San Francisco Lean Software Review 146

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

If you’re an early employee at a startup, one day you will wake up to find that what you worked on 24/7 for the last year is no longer the most important thing – you’re no longer the most important employee, and process, meetings, paperwork and managers and bosses have shown up. I know a change is going to come.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 8, 2021

But one of the secrets to effective scaling is an efficient team; if your employees are working productively and consistently, they’ll be capable of making your vision a reality. What Makes Employees Productive in a New Startup? So what is it that makes employees productive in a new startup? Uncertainty. Experimental workflows.

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Employee Product Startup Software Review 127

The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Things like coding, finance; design and marketing are second-nature in startup as opposed to segmented, corporate work. Due to a small work environment, there is very little paperwork involved in startups, especially in agile development. Adopt an Agile Work Environment. Less Bureaucracy. Streamline Your Project Pipeline.

Technical Review 134

Technical Review Agile Startup Software Review 134

Steve Blank

JANUARY 30, 2013

Employees had a different concern – they simply wanted more clarity on how to continue to be involved, since formal rules of engagement ended with the bootcamp. 2) We should have had buy-in about the value of disruptive new business models, design and open innovation thinking. Venture Fest was not integral to their success.

Programming 273

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Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2014

Agile Engineering” to have teams prototype, test, and iterate their idea while discovering if they have a profitable business model. Activities cover clinical trials, FDA approvals, Freedom to Operate (IP, Licenses) software development, drug or device design, etc.

Intellectual Property 290

Intellectual Property Lean IP Open Source 290

YoungUpstarts

MAY 30, 2014

We put our technology into the hands of employees — but in a controlled environment. Automated testing assesses the designed boundaries of your product. We test our products with our partners in their retail spaces. What You Gain From Beta Testing. Bridges between gaps.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2009

An irreversible decision is firing an employee, launching your product, a five-year lease for an expensive new building, etc. That’s why startups are agile. Startups that are agile have mastered one other trick – and that’s Tempo – the ability to make quick decisions consistently over extended periods of time.

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Silicon Valley RSS Startup Agile 309

crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 26, 2011

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Best Practices and Tips for Restaurant Web Design – [link]. Managing and Motivating Employees in Their Twenties – [link]. Is Your Service Agile?

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 95

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Now, anyone can create apps and websites, design chatbots, automate processes, open ecommerce stores, and lots more — all without typing out a single line of code. Copywriters, designers, marketers, and employees from any other department can work alongside each other to create something together — and with a minimal learning curve.

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CTO Hire eCommerce Engineer Software 264

ReadWriteStart

MAY 26, 2022

Creating a well-designed product that’s a hit with users takes a lot of hard work, not to mention a little strategy and luck. In software, those avenues are your customers, industry, employees, and the broader trends associated with current events. What’s more, mission statements have a direct impact on employee actions.

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Software Japan Agile Employee 171

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 19, 2010

No wait, I forgot, actually the question is: What happens when employee #2 makes off with your code and roadmap and marketing data and customer list, moves to Bolivia, and starts selling your stuff world-wide at one-tenth the price? But now she has the vision and ability to design her own software, capitalizing on modern trends (e.g.

Software Review 325

Software Review Technical Review Development Team Review Bolivia 325

Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2009

Agile – you may find the real opportunities for your company was somewhere else. Yet for every founder there are 10-20 other employees who take the near-equivalent risks in joining an early-stage company. If you’re not a founder (by choice, timing or temperament,) you may be an early employee or a later stage startup employee.

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Cofounder Founder Silicon Valley Technical Cofounder 230

Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

Finally, I’ll write about how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. The Focus on Execution Versus Agility The product development diagram has a linear flow from left to right.

Customer Development 245

Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 245

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 19, 2011

Jeff will also be joining us on stage at Startup Lessons Learned 2011 , where he will be presenting a case study on his experience blending design, Lean Startup, and large company culture. Can an established organization with a recognized brand, proven revenue stream and an employee count in the hundreds or thousands embrace these principles?

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 16, 2013

One good example is the way in which we''ve adjusted the length of different phases of our agile sprints. We don''t follow a set agile methodology, but rather follow a more home-grown, minimal version of various approaches. We''ve had to design and implement training programs to help on-board people to our culture and technology.

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Lean Startup Software Engineering Agile 167

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

With fewer than 10 employees but almost $2-billion dollars in the bank, they plan on jumping right in. Lean was designed to inform the founders’ vision while they operated frugally at speed. But NewTV doesn’t plan on testing these hypotheses. It’s the antithesis of the Lean Startup. And it may work. Dot Com Boom to Bust.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 28, 2014

I just had a fellow CTO ask me about a particular technical design problem and several directions they could go and ask for my thoughts on the tradeoffs for those different choices. Other Topics Covered I also covered topics that are covered more thoroughly in the following posts: Document Your MVP for a Developer.

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Technical Cofounder Developer Fractional CTO CTO Hire 280

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Being able to hire talented professionals remains a difficult proposition in the current job market, especially when sourcing experienced developers, designers, and project managers. Keep Employees Engaged When on The Bench. Today’s Talented Engineers & Designers Need Top-Shelf Tools of the Trade.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

So here’s the solution I have recommended to some of my portfolio companies: “ agile budgeting ”, i.e., monitoring a few key variables while giving managers significant flexibility. Entrepreneur Jeff Magnusson provides a sample agile budgeting workbook. Regardless of whether you take a traditional or agile budgeting approach, Robert A.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

When I first encountered agile software techniques, in the form of extreme programming , I thought I had found the answer. I explained it to people this way: agile lets you make the trade-offs visible to whole company, so that they can make informed choices. Even worse, agile wasnt really helping me ship higher quality software.

Software Review 164

Software Review Engineer Management Technical Review 164

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

They provide access to India’s trained employees and technology. Their approach is driven by the Agile methodology. eSparkBiz provides a range of services, including web development, mobile app development, eCommerce solutions , UI/UX design, and digital marketing. They provide cutting-edge and adaptable digital solutions.

India 130

India Software Review Software Technical Review 130

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2016

1 about how she uses Lean Startup principles to empower government employees and to improve resident satisfaction. series that also includes the Future of Work , the Future of Corporate Agility, Skill-Sharing, and more in the weeks leading up to Lean Startup Week. This interview is part of a “Future of….”

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 15, 2011

It's challenging to build, design and deploy software. A quick note, while I primarily talk about co-founders, the same principals should also be applied to interacting with all early employees as you really are partners on the mission to build a great product. Use Solid Agile Process for Estimating Development Timeline.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 6, 2011

This migration to the cloud helps to meet their operational needs, as well as to reduce costs and increase agility and efficiency. It is also important to allow the organisation’s employees to have an understanding of how cloud works. In addition to small businesses, cloud adoption by governments has been growing in the Asia region.

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Cloud Asia Government Mobile 223

Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Some companies use a suggestion box, others like Google give employees 20% of their time to work on their own projects. And to keep executing large organizations hire employees with a range of skills and competencies. To manage these employees companies create metrics to control, measure and reward execution. Act Like a Startup.

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Private Equity Metrics China Intellectual Property 330

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 4, 2017

By which they mean: Without stupid rules that assume employees are dumb or evil, without everything taking ten times longer than it should, without wall-to-wall meetings, without resorting to hiring anything less than the top 1% of the talent pool, and so on. Why is this impossible when you have 500 employees? From Brittle to Robust.

Government 223

Government Startup Cofounder Technical Support 223

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

I know plenty of people who prefer more advanced source control system, but my belief is that many agile practices diminish the importance of advanced features like branching. Its not that the idea behind them is wrong, but I think agile team-building practices make scheduling per se much less important. Youd better.

Software Review 144

Software Review Technical Review San Francisco Continuous Deployment 144

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

This is precisely the dilemma that the doctrine of minimum viable product is designed to solve. When people start using quality, reliability, or design as an excuse to delay, it used to make me nervous, even when these suggestions were well intentioned. Rules of thumb can be infuriatingly unhelpful. And it’s really hard.

San Francisco 167

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment Software Review 167

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

When Ive asked mentors of mine who have worked in big companies about the role of the CTO, they usually talk about the importance of being the external face of the companys technology platform; an evangelist to developers, customers, and employees. Your CTO might be a great architect, evangelist, interface designer or incredible debugger.

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CTO Fractional CTO CTO Hire Technical Review 168

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 29, 2008

On the one hand, it gives you insight into what kind of employee the candidate might be. The six key attributes spell ABCDEF: Agility. When talking about their past experience, candidates with agility will know why they did what they did in a given situation. Do they have a background that provides some novel approaches?

San Francisco 146

San Francisco Lean Agile Java 146

The Next Web

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Hire a designer on day one. If your job isn’t design-based, find someone who can give you that advantage. Great design maximizes the impact of technical innovation. Having a designer on board gives us the ability to work out features without writing a single line of code. It’s efficient without too much back and forth.

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Technical Cofounder Cofounder Agile Design 130

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

This theory has become so influential that I have called it one of the three pillars of the lean startup - every bit as important as the changes in technology or the advent of agile development. This is a self-published book, originally designed as a companion to Steves class at Berkeleys Haas school of business. Heres the catch.

Customer Development 168

Customer Development Developer San Francisco Customer 168

Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Thanks to Wes Marlan, Lighthouse Web Design, Inc ! #2- Our employees are the most valuable parts of our business, and investing in them helps to get their best selves working. 7- Providing employee engagement software. My #1 goal for 2022 is to help my company become the number one provider of employee engagement software.

Entrepreneur 139

Entrepreneur Social Media Employee Los Angeles 139

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Hes a new employee, and he was not properly trained in TDD So far, this isnt much different from the kind of analysis any competent operations team would conduct for a site outage. Instead, five whys kept leading to problems caused by an improperly trained new employee, and wed make a small adjustment. why did that code get written?

Software Review 167

Software Review Technical Review San Francisco Continuous Deployment 167

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Adapting to emerging trends and staying agile will be crucial for startups as the metaverse grows. Startups should focus on exploring the capabilities of AI to create and innovate, which includes applications in design, content production, process automation, and more.

Technical Review 133

Technical Review Generative AI Startup Agile 133