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Category Archives: Entrepreneurship

What’s missing from bug and task tracking

By laran | Published: 2009/04/08
Comments on the state-of-the-union for time management applications.
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Agile Leadership

By laran | Published: 2009/03/18
Pick up a few tips on how to effectively lead the curious, experimental breed known as Engineers.
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Calling all Ithaca, NY area entrepreneurs and small business owners

By laran | Published: 2008/12/11
Join us and take advantage of a great opportunity to grow your business.
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Economy or Agony?

By laran | Published: 2008/09/10
Tips to help you make better decisions when it comes to money.
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Document Templates for Entrepreneurs

By laran | Published: 2008/09/03
Get a head start toward building a new business with these awesome document templates.
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Entrepreneurship videos from Stanford

By laran | Published: 2008/08/07
A wealth of information from successful entrepreneurs is available on the Stanford website. Highly recommended viewing.
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The success of GameClay

By laran | Published: 2008/07/23
Here’s a great post to read for anyone who’s interested in technology entrepreneurship. It’s titled “Postmortem”. And it’s all about the the lessons learned from the experience of trying to get GameClay off the ground. It’s probably counter-intuitive to many people, but failure is one of the things I really like to see on the [...]
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100 Ways to Kill a Concept: Why Most Ideas Get Shot Down

By laran | Published: 2008/07/19
Just a good reminder. Every good idea needs a champion. Here are 100 reasons why.
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Incremental Is Still Waterfall

By laran | Published: 2007/12/05
Gojko Adzic posted yesterday about the waterfall trap for agile projects. In his post he makes the point that iterative development is not equivalent to incrememtal development. Iterative implies that with each iteration the entire application will be the result. Each successive iteration will contain a greater level of detail than the iteration before it. [...]
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The Innovators Dilemma and the Enterprise

By laran | Published: 2007/12/03
I came across this post by Jason Hunter on The Innovators Dilemma from 2005. Jason Hunter is a big name in the J2EE/XML space if you don’t know who he is. Here’s the nut of the article: … you can listen to customers, provide them with what they want, but still lose out — because [...]
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