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Massacre at IBM

Steve Blank

Long before there was the Lean Startup, Business Model Canvas or Customer Development there was a guy in Santa Barbara California who had already figured it out. The core team — a cross-functional team who could make all the business and technical decisions within a set envelop ?

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Why Startups Must Liberate From Hiring Platforms

YoungUpstarts

Therefore, startups are best advised not to tie their fate to third-party businesses. The work history, clients, portfolio and reviews are gone, just like that? For instance, an unscreened software contractor might go Missing in Action or write unusable code. Too big to fail. The way forward.

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Lessons Learned from a Software Developer’s First Attempt at Launching a Startup

Software By Rob

Karl is a software engineer with more than 10 years of experience who specializes in agile web development and web services integrations. He authors a software development blog at [link]. There comes a time in a software developer’s career where they reach a crossroads and ask themselves, “What next?

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Developer Funding – How to Build Your Team and Raise Money (Google I/O Panel)

VC Cafe

Kevin – consumer Internet plays, often times they don’t have a business model. A lot is happening because we have deployment platforms, code platforms, and now we have capital platforms like angellist. The top 10-15 we manually review. You don’t need all of them, you can have a couple.

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@altgate » Blog Archive » Outsourcing For Startups

Altgate

The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded). Almost certainly accounting is a support service and should be outsourced (unless, perhaps, you’re selling accounting software and you need to eat your own dogfood!).

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Essential Startup Funding Tips from 8 Seasoned Investors

mashable.com

The group seeks out technologies that are complementary to the company’s core operations, including applications, software and infrastructure startups. Code for America Chooses 20 Developer. Nagraj Kashyap: The Qualcomm Ventures vice president oversees the telecommunication giant’s investment arm, Qualcomm Ventures.

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Choosing Bad Competition

Reid Hoffman

This doesn’t necessarily mean that the people involved aren’t hard-working; they may in fact be quite diligent in turning the crank on an existing process. This may be due to industry-specific technological change. But other times it is due to the indirect effects of broader change.