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Extended Requests for Startups 2025 list

VC Cafe

AI-Enabled Customer Support Platform : Develop a platform that can handle a high percentage of customer support workloads, allowing companies to optimise their workforce for higher-value tasks. YC wants to fund startups that can accelerate the development of AI agents.

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Lean Startup at Scale

Startup Lessons Learned

We work in prototypically four-week iterations, with quality engineers and software developers working in close collaboration. This finally bit us after a four month stint of development blew through its testing schedule by a factor of four: two scheduled weeks turned into two months before the product reached stability.

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Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

Startup Lessons Learned

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. Its a nice complement on the product engineering side to his customer development methodology.

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How Data Analytics Influences (and Can Better Influence) Your Business

YoungUpstarts

From entertainment to healthcare, companies use big data to track user interaction and customize life experiences. In a recent report, the BLS includes new management, teaching, and software engineering positions that focus on data analytics. Software engineers alone cannot simply design new apps and programs willy-nilly.

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[INTERVIEW] North Aware Founder And Creator Of The Smart Parka, Jamil Khan

YoungUpstarts

That’s what former software engineer Jamil Khan has done with his new company, North Aware , in manufacturing its Smart Parka. As he notes, you have to be able to advance the learning curve fast in software development because changes occur at such a rapid pace. Trust a techie to reinvent how we do winter.

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The Digital Transformation Is Affordable For SMBs: Where To Start In Your Digital Strategy

YoungUpstarts

New data-powered solutions give companies that would ordinarily be too large to customize their offerings the insight to do so. In light of this, software developers are beginning to cater to the digital transformation needs of SMBs. Owners no longer have to buy management software meant for big business.

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Teach 'Em to Tinker

This is going to be BIG.

So much of the focus was on how to produce usable software developers inside the four walls of a classroom. There was a CTO in the room who had a fifty plus person tech team and so I asked him, "How many of your developers learned their trade in the classroom versus being essentially self taught?". Answer: All self-taught.