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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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

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. For even deeper learning, register for The Lean Startup Conference , December 9 – 11 in San Francisco, where Kent will be a speaker.'

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 25, 2011

It may be hard to remember that there was a time when people in the agile software development community thought Lean Startup was incompatible with agile practices. The number of Lean Startup meetup groups has crossed 100, spreading out from traditional startup hubs like San Francisco and New York to a wide variety of places.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 1, 2009

We might be a ways away from the reality of a Chief Engineer or Product Director role commonly in software development, but ultimately it's going to be a matter of getting the culture right so that people stick around long enough to develop not only the tactical skills, but also the honed instincts and senses.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 7, 2016

Sure, companies in the Bay Area – particularly Silicon Valley and San Francisco – consistently receive the highest percentage of venture money nationwide. By contrast, San Francisco, the top ranked U.S. Software Development Incentives Speak for Themselves. city on the list, came in at #28.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Lean manufacturing , agile software development , and Theory of Constraints are all examples of this idea in action. Lean manufacturing , agile software development , and Theory of Constraints are all examples of this idea in action. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Bring your questions. Amazon PostRank

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

You cant make these global efficiency improvements until you get clear about the goal of your development process. That leads to a seemingly-obvious question: what is progress in software development? April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. It seems like it should be the amount of correctly-working code weve written.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

Why do software developers think this is acceptable? April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. 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

JULY 2, 2009

Furthermore, I think most of what you are suggesting is applicable in companies/ industries that are not software development. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. 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.

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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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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. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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Guy Nirpaz

APRIL 13, 2014

In the 2nd annual customer success summit last month in San Francisco, I’ve introduced the Customer Success Manifesto. If you are familiar with the agile software development manifesto will see a similar presentation style (visuals are updated to 2014 though).

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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. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. In the case of C3, that was to run payroll for 87,000 employees, who were presumably receiving payroll before the project began. What do you do if the problem itself is unknown?

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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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ReadWriteStart

MAY 10, 2012

The Developer Bootcamp is designed to help anyone get started coding - and they might even get a job at a startup or tech heavyweight out of it as well. San Francisco-based Developer Boot Camp was an idea that started with a friend in need. A Vocational School for Programmers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 16, 2013

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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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. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. I used to think that investments in metrics were a form of waste. Bring your questions.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 2, 2016

San Francisco is already well publicized. These cities won’t cost you an arm and a leg, but you’ll find that there is still plenty of opportunities in their local software development industry. If you’re looking for people to be a part of your team, Seattle software development community is a great place to start.

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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. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. I am basically a one-man shop.

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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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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

In the case of Freshdesk, their main competitor, Zendesk, is operating with a San Francisco - Copenhagen cost-structure and will find it harder to compete with this strategy. Guttula, Bizosys' CEO, and Karana founded the company with the goal to "simplify software development."

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Expo San Francisco 2009 The current macroeconomic climate presents unparalleled opportunities for those that can thrive with constrained resources. It uses principles of agile software development, open source and web 2.0, April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Bring your questions. Amazon PostRank

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 25, 2016

I was working as a software developer in New York City and came upon a recurring problem, having to spend tedious hours coding online forms. Aytekin Tank is the founder & CEO of JotForm , a SaaS online form building company based in San Francisco. At the time, most users accessed the web through Internet Explorer.

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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." April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. The mechanical steps, the culture of how its done, how they evaluate success, how they cope with failure. How fast do they iterate?

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 11, 2011

The image above is a portrait created by San Francisco based creative mosaic portrait artist, Jason Mercier. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 6, 2008

When youve mastered that, consider adding operations, customer service, marketing, product management, business development - the idea is that when the team needs to get approval or support from another department, they already have an "insider" who can make it happen. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Bring your questions.

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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. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Thank you so much!)

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Most of the startups in the tech industry, however, are centered around software. It is understandable since software development requires less time and fewer resources (particularly financial ones) than prototyping a piece of hardware. Ukraine has never had a lot of investment possibilities for hardware startups.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 27, 2009

It uses principles of agile software development, open source and web 2.0, April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. 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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YoungUpstarts

JULY 30, 2015

Back in early 2003, a Dane named Janus Friis and a Swede named Niklas Zennström had an idea for a software application, and founded a business with the help of three Estonian software developers. Its executives sit in San Francisco, its CTO is based in the Dominican Republic, and its development team is in Belgrade.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. Way to go San Francisco! Best Practices of Combining Typefaces – [link]. 15 UI Design Patterns Web Designers Should Keep Handy – [link]. 45 Amazing Car Print Ads Around The World – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Go west, young MBA: Important rules for building wealth in San Francisco – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. The ABCs of MVPs: How to Get the RIGHT Product out Faster – [link].

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Diego Basch

MARCH 14, 2013

Here they are: 1) I strongly prefer investing in companies located in San Francisco (city proper, not the Bay Area). I live in San Francisco, and I enjoy driving on Bay Area freeways as much as having a root canal done by a drunken dentist who hates my family. That’s a positive return to me.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 24, 2023

Rating for an app: 10/10 Rating for software: 10/10 Rating for technology other than app or software: 8/10 #2: KillerStartups KillerStartups aims to help them both by reviewing up-and-coming internet startups right on the spot, right at their birth. Why it’s great: Springwise is a great website to promote your app or software.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 5, 2013

Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. The Meme Hustler | by Evgeny Morozov (long & critical of Tim O’Reilly; good history of open source software) – [link]. (Screen) size matters for mobile interface design | VentureBeat – [link].

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Business of Software is a conference organized by Neil Davidson and Joel Spolsky , and was held this year in San Francisco. The speaking line-up is a who’s who of software bloggers and authors, including Geoffrey Moore, Paul Graham, Dharmesh Shah and Joel Spolsky.

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Transformify

MARCH 14, 2020

Instead of paying ridiculously high rent in San Francisco or London, startups and small businesses can spend on product development and marketing, thus tremendously increasing the chances of successful market entry and expansion. Work from home and remote work also significantly cut office costs.

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