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How to Make Agile Work in Fast-Growing Startups

The Product Coalition

TL; DR: How to Make Agile Work in Fast-Growing Startups For years, I worked in several Berlin-based, fast-growing startups in my capacity as Scrum Master, agile coach, and Product Owner. work in a fast-growing startup. Also, let me introduce you to the anti-patterns agile startups shall avoid at all costs. ??

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The decade software ate the world

Intercom, Inc.

To give some perspective, there were about 300 million smartphones sold in 2010. And it’s not just the startups playing this game – Steve Jobs was proudly averse to the notion of subscriptions, and now Apple spends most of its earning calls boasting about the performance of its services division. There are about 3.2

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Goodbye 2009 and Welcome 2010

Sachin Rekhi

My Muses for Brainstorming Startup Ideas. 5 Music Startups to Watch in 2009. With the start of 2010 comes a new blogging resolution (and a revamped blog design). Here's a look back at the highlights: Top Five Posts from 2009 (by pageviews). Is Google App Engine Ready for Prime Time? The Value of the Y Combinator Experience.

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Startups are cheaper to build, but more expensive to grow – here’s why

Andrew Chen

Startups should be getting cheaper to build. Some providers, such as Microsoft, have started providing their services free to startups, in the hope of turning them into paying customers as they grow. Instead, startups are raising more capital and burning more capital to get to their Series As. AWS instead of your own datacenter.

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Scott Cook, Michelangelo and More Strong Product Influences

The Product Guy

Eric Ries, entrepreneur, blogger, and author of The Lean Startup. Established in 2010, TBPP is awarded annually in association with The Product Guy and The Product Group. Established in 2010, TBPP is awarded annually in association with The Product Guy ( [link] ) and The Product Group ( [link] ). More to Come. The Product Guy.

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How Netflix Built an Innovative Culture by Gibson Biddle

Mind the Product

I started at Netflix in 2005 and in 2010, went to my next startup, Chegg. While most companies add process and rules as they grow, culture helps employees to make great decisions without talking to one another. If executed well, culture is an antidote to talent-sucking, mind-numbing rules and process.

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Most startups don’t starve, they drown. Here is why, and how to survive.

The Product Coalition

Startups don’t starve, they drown. It was 2010 when I watched the online stream of the Startup Lessons Learned conference, initiated by Eric Ries. I went with the cofounder of my first startup, which we used as our own “industry project” for our masters, and a couple of other students to Birmingham.

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