by arin | Jan 18, 2013 | Lean Startup, Startups
AgilityFeat recently held a great event in Costa Rica called DareToBeLean, where we invited entrepreneurs to join us on the beach for workshops on lean startups and agility. As we were planning that event in the fall of 2012, I looked at a number of ways to advertise...
by arin | Jan 16, 2013 | Lean Startup, Startups
“Wave coming, wave coming … paddle! paddle! paddle! Now stand up! Stand up! GET UP!” I can still hear the voice of my surf instructor, and those lessons provide a great parallel to the growth of my company and yours. Surfing and Startups in Costa...
by arin | Jan 4, 2013 | Lean Startup, Startups
How do you convince engineers that it’s okay to build quick experiments, and deploy code that you will probably throw away? How do you convince rigorous engineers that it’s actually more efficient to work in a lean startup style? That is a topic that Sam McAfee from...
by arin | Jan 3, 2013 | Lean Startup, Startups, User Group Reports
The Ignite talks at the Lean Startup Conference in San Francisco in December were a lot of fun, both as an attendee and as a speaker. Below is the video of my talk on “Just Deploy It!”. In my talk, I focused on 5 anti-patterns that I see regularly in...
by arin | Dec 28, 2012 | Agile, Lean Startup, Startups
Who’s ever heard of a telecom lean startup? That’s sort of what Twilio is, and it’s a pretty cool company and interesting case study. When I attended the LeanStartup.co conference in San Francisco recently, one of the parts I was most excited about was the tour of...
by arin | Dec 18, 2012 | Startups
Wow, this year has flown by! In our final “news from the startup front” of 2012, our code commandos have been thinking a lot lately about Lean Startups, nearshoring, and our upcoming workshop in Tamarindo, Costa Rica. There’s lots of good stuff coming up here,...
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