VC Cafe

MARCH 7, 2025

Cohen and team SoniVie Ltd on your $360M acquisition by Boston Scientific Kudos Daniel Bren and team OTORIO on the $120M acquisition by Armis of your cybersecurity solutions for critical infrastructure! Mazal tov Orly Shoavi and team ClarityQ GenAI Product Analytics on emerging from stealth with a $3.7M

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 16, 2018

For example, Beantown looks to data analytics jobs Boston police can rely upon to determine where in the city crime occurs for officer distribution. Data analytics keeps developers on top of ever-changing markets. Safety is another advantage of data analytics. Increased Data Analytics in Jobs.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 11, 2021

We planned to use smart yet inexpensive software developers to build business application software. Now we had no choice: we fired everyone, shut down our month-to-month office, sold all the office furnishings, and moved the business to our apartments in downtown Boston. It was gut-wrenching.

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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. The lean startup is an application of Lean Thinking. Amazon PostRank

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 4, 2010

Kent is a significant figure in the field of software development. Kent is a significant figure in the field of software development. Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, April 4, 2010 Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Kent Beck will give the opening keynote at the Startup Lessons Learned conference on April 23.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

A company developing software would have to buy computers and license software from other companies and hire the staff to run and maintain it. Today open source software has slashed the cost of software development from millions of dollars to thousands.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 16, 2009

For those whove heard it, it contains a length discourse on the subject of agile software development and extreme programming, including its weaknesses when applied to startups. I had a background in lean manufacturing (book knowledge, anyway) and lean software development (hands on) before encountering Lean Startups.

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Software By Rob

MAY 3, 2010

A Developer’s Guide to Launching a Startup&# → Catch Me at the 2010 Business of Software Conference in Boston Micropreneurship , Startups If youre trying grow your startup youve come to the right place. I will be speaking at the 2010 Business of Software Conference in Boston this October.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. Ive attempted to embed the relevant slides below. Take a look and let me know what you think. Amazon PostRank

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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. While an undergraduate at Yale Unviersity, he co-founded Catalyst Recruiting. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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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

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).

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 21, 2010

Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Is Boston short of angels or good companies? Essential Guidelines for Featured Content in Web Design – [link]. 34 Various Templates And PSDs To Ease Daily Workflow – [link]. – [link].

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VC Cafe

JUNE 1, 2011

BROADCOM BUYS ISRAELI SECURITY SOFTWARE DEVELOPER SC SQUARE. Broadcom is acquiring an expert team of engineers focused on security&# – BroadcomConsumer device chip maker Broadcom has acquired Tel Aviv-based security software maker SC Square for $42 million. “With SC Square Ltd., Limelight Networks Inc.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 22, 2019

These are highly-skilled people that make up critical parts of your software development teams. But if your company is located someplace like Silicon Valley, Seattle, Boston, or New York, you’re entering the race with a handicap. Even the most well-funded startup has limited resources.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Successful Innovation Outposts typically develop over a period of time through three stages. Silicon Valley, Boston). In the first stage the Outpost focusses on networking and partnering in the Innovation Cluster in which it is based (i.e.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 11, 2015

” In many respects, technology acts as the great leveler, opening up global trade that was once the exclusive preserve of large multinationals.

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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

MARCH 16, 2009

What causes projects like this to fail in traditional software development is that the solution is unknown. Expo New York New York, NY Nov 19 The Lean Startup at MIT Boston, MA Nov 20 Lunch workshop at Dogpatch Labs Boston, MA Dec 17 Lean Startup Cohort program begins San Francisco, CA KISSmetrics KISSmetrics is loading.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Even if men have an innate advantage at software development, the gap would have to be massive in order to explain why startup after startup has an all-male team. Even if men have an innate advantage at software development, the gap would have to be massive in order to explain why startup after startup has an all-male team.

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Altgate

MAY 14, 2009

You would have to spend millions of dollars hiring software developers, renting real estate, buying hardware, etc. Until relatively recently, the capital requirements of technology businesses were quite large. just to build a product which you could then start selling (and in reality test whether there was a market at all).

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 28, 2009

This builds on a lot of great thinking that has come before, like the agile movements insistence that only the creation of working code counts as progress for a software development team. Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, February 28, 2009 Throwing away working code Lean startups work by systematically eradicating waste.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 25, 2010

The number of VC firms located here and funding Chicago companies was tiny compared to the number in Silicon Valley (or New York and Boston for that matter). Our hurdle was to develop our own network of investors and we did this the old-fashioned way: one degree of separation at a time. Funding, too, was a challenge.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

Why do software developers think this is acceptable? Expo New York New York, NY Nov 19 The Lean Startup at MIT Boston, MA Nov 20 Lunch workshop at Dogpatch Labs Boston, MA Dec 17 Lean Startup Cohort program begins San Francisco, CA KISSmetrics KISSmetrics is loading. June 22, 2009 10:07 AM Khris said. I should think not.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

Our CTO is the CEO himself, but he lacks the understanding of the new software development processes and the new technologies. In school I was being pounded day and night with anything that has to do with agile software development. In this group, I am the only technical guru with very little industry experience.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2009

Furthermore, I think most of what you are suggesting is applicable in companies/ industries that are not software development. I have not read the previous post(s) on 5 why's (about to now though.), but I wanted to comment and let you know that I thought this was really great stuff. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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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." The mechanical steps, the culture of how its done, how they evaluate success, how they cope with failure. You can tell a lot about a company from their deployment flow.

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 12, 2010

The Business of Software 2010 was last week in Boston. Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. This is without a doubt my favorite conference every year.

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Software By Rob

JUNE 29, 2010

The early bird registration discount for this year’s Business of Software in Boston expires on Friday. In addition to speakers like Seth Godin, Joel Spolsky, Dharmesh Shah and Eric Sink, there are excellent networking opportunities with the other 300 attendees (a lot of self-funded software companies in the audience).

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 15, 2013

Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. The New York Times gave away The Boston Globe and other properties (NYT retained pension liabilities) – [link]. A Look at Beautiful Typography in Print Designs – [link]. – [link]. – [link].

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded). In the valley or in Boston, lawyers will often *defer* up to $25K until funding in return for 0.5%-1.0% Also, most startup attorneys will do deferred payment plans.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

It uses principles of agile software development, open source and web 2.0, Expo New York New York, NY Nov 19 The Lean Startup at MIT Boston, MA Nov 20 Lunch workshop at Dogpatch Labs Boston, MA Dec 17 Lean Startup Cohort program begins San Francisco, CA KISSmetrics KISSmetrics is loading. Amazon PostRank

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 11, 2021

We planned to use smart yet inexpensive software developers to build business application software. Now we had no choice: we fired everyone, shut down our month-to-month office, sold all the office furnishings, and moved the business to our apartments in downtown Boston. It was gut-wrenching.

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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. Thank you so much!) Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

I wound up seeing Joel, but I never caught Paul when I lived in New Haven or Boston. Paul Graham When I moved to the east coast in 2007 I made it a goal to see Joel Spolsky and Paul Graham speak at some point. He spoke about 21 trends you should bet on, and 5 you shouldn’t.

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Software By Rob

APRIL 22, 2010

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed.

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Software By Rob

MAY 3, 2010

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← Catch Me at the 2010 Business of Software Conference in Boston Things I Wish I Knew When I Started Out → I’m Writing a Book: “Start Small. Stay Small.

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