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How To Find the Right Co-Founders?

Steve Blank

They seem to know the right mix of skills on their founding team is a hacker, hustler and designer. Activities” is where you define the most important things your company must do to make the rest of your business model work. But what about for us, a consumer hardware hardware company? ” Lessons Learned.

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[Interview] Michael K. Levine, Author Of “People Over Process: Leadership for Agility”

YoungUpstarts

Though agile is all about process and that’s where much of our attention has gone, it’s time we shifted out focus on people and interactions. In his new book “ People Over Process: Leadership for Agility “, technology expert Michael K. By putting people first — as opposed to process. Can you talk a bit about yourself?

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Stop Starting, Start Finishing with Agile

ReadWriteStart

At the same time, leaders are also looking towards acquiring that entrepreneur Agility. Thus, many have been fostering Agile thinking and mindset within their teams. The four Agile values, defined in the Agile Manifesto, deliver value to the customer, responsiveness to change, effective communication, and people centricity.

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Startups – Integrating Security Mindset and Processes Early

YoungUpstarts

Agile Methodology.”. Security is often not given the consideration it should get early in the design or development process and it tends to be costlier to implement later on. In this phase, we will be designing the architecture and depending on the development framework you are using, high level designs of the data models and methods.

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5 Keys To Starting New Trends Rather Than Following

Startup Professionals Musings

Even the smartest entrepreneurs have found that a well-designed market experiment will test a number of different hypothesis and variables at once, without a major investment, proving bad assumptions as well as validated ones as the experiment goes on. Focus on agility as the key skill your organization needs.

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A Startup CTO’s Take on Early Technology Choices & Tradeoffs

View from Seed

You always want to be careful with how tightly you schedule things to make sure you stay agile and responsive to evolving business needs, but you also need to make sure your overall journey makes sense and that you’re building things in the right order, as well as taking on risks in a measured way. ” decision.

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Startup Suicide – Rewriting the Code

Steve Blank

The benefits of customer and agile development and minimum features set are continuous customer feedback, rapid iteration and little wasted code. Ironically it becomes the antithesis of agile. No,” my friend replied, sadly shaking his head, “the rest of the board said it sounded like a good idea.”.