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The Endless Frontier: U.S. Science and National Industrial Policy (part 1)

Steve Blank

but became much less so in the last decade when the bottom-line drove industries offshore. One OSRD project – the Manhattan Project which led to the development of the atomic bomb – was so secret and important that it was spun off as a separate program. This approach was successful when U.S. In lieu of the U.S.

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Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

Startup Lessons Learned

In a startup, both the problem and solution are unknown, and the key to success is building an integrated team that includes product development in the feedback loop with customers. 2008 09 06 Eric Ries Haas Columbia Customer Development Engineering View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. Talk about waste.

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Five lethal mistakes in offshore software development

murkygrey.com

They emerge a few years later in hoards of brilliant and eager software developers. The big guys have been doing it for years and recently, smaller and smaller startups are incorporating offshore development into their plans. As a development manager I have, over the years, utilized development teams in India, China and Russia.

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Social, Agile, and Transformation: Strategic Agile Thinking: Balancing Value, Innovation and Research

ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

I cover several topics including agile software development, software startups, web 2.0, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 Product owners and technical managers also need to interpret this scenario properly. agile software development. (46). crisis management. (3).

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Impact of Outsourcing/Offshoring on IT

BeyondVC

Ephraim Shwartz of Infoworld has a great piece on offshoring and implications for IT shops in the US. I couldn’t agree with him more that while there are cost benefits there are also other factors to consider when moving development offsite. The post Impact of Outsourcing/Offshoring on IT first appeared on BeyondVC.

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The truth about digital offshoring

Start Up Blog

No one is sending kids down mines with digital offshoring. marketing paypal People Internet marketing web startups Wealth of Nations tech startups BRIC nations globalisation white collar work overseas resources cost management produxction digital production developing economies global economies. There is no choice.

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Debt, Equity and a Third (and Fourth) Thing that Might Work Better

Software By Rob

That’s when you find one or more (future) customers that help fund your product development in exchange for input into the process and free or highly discounted use of the software. In this scenario, $5k or $10k goes a long way towards bringing a product to fruition. Think 1-3 person teams who release v1.0

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