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LA’s Replicated looks to increase R&D and hiring for its operations management software after raising $25 million

TechCrunch LA

Replicated began as a developer of software security and management services for Docker containerized development tools, but as the market shifted to Kubernetes, the company shifted to service those applications. As developers embrace Kubernetes, Replicated launches tools to manage its deployments. ” .

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7 Ways To Improve Your Team Member Experience At Work

Startup Professionals Musings

I particularly like her key points on improving the employee mindset, and I will outline here the top focus keywords we both recommend on the employee side of the equation: Efficient – tools to minimize time and effort at work. Flexible – listen to allow flex hours and customization. Make sure they understand the changes coming ahead.

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6 Cost-Cutting Recommendations For New Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

It wasn’t so many years ago that starting a new e-commerce business on the Internet was a complex custom development project, usually costing a million dollars or more. Now you can do it for free, or a few hundred dollars, with one of the many web building tools available, like Shopify or Weebly.

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Document Your MVP for a Developer

SoCal CTO

Customer Development Notes I'm assuming founders are having customer development conversations. See also: 12 Tips for Early Customer Development Interviews , 12 tips for customer development , tips for customer development. Seeing the evolution of thinking is not a bad thing.

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StartupRoar - Great Content for Startups

SoCal CTO

As you might imagine, when you go to the page on Customer Development , you find the best and the latest content from people like Steve Blank and Vinicius Vacanti. You can also “change edition” to focus on content written today, yesterday, this week, this month, this year, or other date ranges.

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ServiceTitan is LA’s least likely contender to be the next billion-dollar startup

TechCrunch LA

Both programmers, the two reconnected after doing stints as custom developers during and after college, and then when they were developing tools for their families’ businesses as residential contractors in the Los Angeles suburb of Glendale.

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Steve Blank Discusses The Origin And Future Of The Lean Startup Movement

InfoChachkie

The Lean Startup approach dictates that successful customer development is an iterative process. By conceptualizing, selling, gathering feedback and then developing a product, startups achieve success more quickly and economically. Eric (Ries) was a student in one of the very earliest customer development classes at Berkley.

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