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6 Reasons IT Outsourcing Software Development To Eastern Europe is on the Rise in the US: Key Benefits and Trends

The Startup Magazine

The primary reason for this shift is the talent pool in countries like Ukraine and Poland, where there are many highly skilled IT professionals. Furthermore, cultural compatibility and similar time zones make it easier for companies to manage projects efficiently.

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Lean Meets Wicked Problems

Steve Blank

This meant the class was team-based, Lean-driven (hypothesis testing/business model/customer development/agile engineering) and experiential – where the students, rather than being presented with all of the essential information, must discover that information rapidly for themselves. How to map stakeholders and systems’ dynamics?

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How Today’s Startups Can Adapt to a Globally Distributed Model

ReadWriteStart

Government restrictions and fears of infection pushed companies that had previously held out to accept remote working, and many discovered that it’s more manageable than they had expected. For example, the best R&D teams for your needs might be based in the Ukraine, whereas the best designers may be in Germany.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Making the World a Safer Place

Steve Blank

Today these potential adversaries are able to harness the power of social networks, encryption, GPS, low-cost drones, 3D printers, simpler design and manufacturing processes, agile and lean methodologies, ubiquitous Internet and smartphones. Department of Defense and Intelligence Community are now facing their own disruption from ISIS.

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Why Large Organizations Struggle With Disruption, and What to Do About It

Steve Blank

It’s often mid-grade managers / officers in this same “middle” who come up with disruptive solutions and concepts. It occurs as some leaders/managers believe change threatens their jobs as decision-makers or that new programs, vendors or ideas increase the risk of failure, which may hurt their image and professional or promotional standing.

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10 Rosh Hashanah Resolutions for Startup Founders

VC Cafe

Use agility to your advantage and make speed a team priority. For other mistakes to avoid as a product manager, check out my recent Linkedin post on the top 10 mistakes product managers make and read everything you can by Marty Cagan. Need for Speed, indeed. Our goals, their goals. subtract $250,000. English translation below.

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International tour about to begin

Startup Lessons Learned

Any chance seeing you in Kiev, Ukraine? Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science?