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Eric Ries and Kent Beck Discuss Product Development

Startup Lessons Learned

On November 14 (that’s this Thursday) at 1p PT, Eric Ries will speak with Kent Beck, a creator of Agile software development, about facilitating the work of engineers and product teams. At a conference I overheard a couple of programmers make a snarky comment about Test-Driven Development. Crazy, huh?

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Real Unfair Advantages

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

During a lull in her practice she got a serendipitous opportunity to shift gears completely and ended up leading software product development teams. Their products are over-priced, buggy, lacking features, and every experience I've had with their tech support has been atrocious, but man their stuff looks and feels nice!

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5 Types Of Business Strategies To Consider Before Opening Up Shop

YoungUpstarts

Workboard, one example of OKR software , is an ideal platform to use when it comes to keeping your teams organized and aligned with company-wide objectives as well as individual objectives. One of the major benefits of using a SOM approach is that product development costs are drastically decreased and technical risk is also reduced.

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Lessons Learned: The hacker's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

Its common to find a hacker at the heart of almost any successful technology company. When a startup encounters difficult technical problems, this is the guy you want solving them. As the company grows, hes the go-to person for almost everything technical, and so hes very much in demand. All is not lost, though.

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Does Scrum Apply To All Types Of Projects?

The Startup Magazine

Scrum is a lightweight agile process framework used primarily for managing software development. Here are the scrum components: Roles: Team, Product owner, Scrum Master and Team. Events: Sprint planning meeting, Release planning, Daily scrum meeting, Review meeting and Sprint retrospective. Iterative release. CONCLUSION.

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Pay Your Payroll Tax With R&D Credits

YoungUpstarts

The Federal R&D credit amounts to roughly 5% of the wages, materials, and outside contractor expenses in research activities related to product and software development, including: Product conceptualization and development. Prototype development, materials expenses, and testing. Manufacturing products.

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Should You Co-Found Your Company With a Software Development Shop (2 of 2)?

David Teten

You’ve got a great idea and domain expertise, but limited money and insufficient technology resources. Should you co-found your company with a software development shop? They’re well aware of the conventional VC bias against funding companies which externally develop their technology, but they do have relevant skills.