Project Management for Startups
by Daniel Kehoe Last updated 17 April 2013 This article from the RailsApps project describes how entrepreneurs can manage development of software applications for startups and personal projects. For solo operators or small teams it suggests some tools for task management and introduces the kanban method of project management. If You Are New to Rails If you’re new to Rails, see What is Ruby on Rails? What is the RailsApps Project? This is an article from the RailsApps project. Project Management for Entrepreneurs Building a web application is a complex project; building a business is even more complicated. Defining tasks and tracking progress is the core of project management. Once you’ve defined your tasks through a product planning process, you’ll need to organize and track your tasks. To-Do List Some entrepreneurs like the discipline of the GTD (Getting Things Done) system for personal productivity and time management. Personal Task Management Team Task Management Kanban Agile Tools
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Recruitment and selection A good Mentoring Organisation will have a rigorous and robust recruitment and selection process in place for potential mentors and mentees. The organisation should also publish their criteria Read more » Training and development of mentors A good Mentoring Organisation must be able to demonstrate that everyone involved in the management and delivery of the mentoring programme is competent to carry out their role or has the appropriate knowledge, skills and experience to carry out their role. Mentor matching system A good mentoring organisation will have a mentor matching process which takes account of the needs and priorities of all parties. Code of Ethics/Conduct All staff, mentors and mentees adhere to a code of ethics and code of conduct. Management of the programme and monitoring of mentor/mentee relationships The progress of relationships between mentors and mentees is regularly and routinely monitored to determine whether they are functioning successfully.
7 Wordpress Themes for Launching your Minimum Viable Product
By leveraging the web in creation of rapid prototypes for testing business model assumptions, and using customer feedback to develop them, companies will be able to advance in its’ search for a repeatable business model and reduce risk in new-product introduction. In creation of such rapid prototypes the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) idea is key. Neverthless, open source platforms such as WordPress are key enablers to the Lean Startup. As my previous post on 9 Minimum Viable Product WordPress Themes received pretty good interest among aspiring enterpreneurs, I decided to share some more recent WordPress themes that can help you in quickly launching your minimum viable product. Inspire, a clean-cut theme from the rockstars at Woothemes. SaaS Web App. Apz, also by Woothemes, is a simple theme aimed at iPhone application developers. Coming Soon is a dead-simple landing page theme. SaaS Web App II is based on the same ideas as the SaaS Web App above, but with some modifications.
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The Startup Universe displays and explores the relationships between startup companies and their founders and investors (Venture Capitalists) since 1990. Startups are grouped into 19 categories, based on the type of products or services they deliver. Each category is represented by an unique color. In addition to that, startups are visually sized according to the amount of financing they have raised, with each individual round displayed as well. Startups are positioned within the main interface on a horizontal interactive timeline, based on the year they were founded. By clicking on the left or right columns - Venture Capitalist or Founders' names - tangential stories can be explored: how many startups has a VC company funded and are there any time or startup category trends or patterns? Startups, VCs and founders can also be directly browsed by entering a name in the search field. All data comes from the CrunchBase API.
12 best places to get free images for your site
Adding a few high quality photos is a great way to improve a website, article or presentation - but be careful. A search engine like Google Images will quickly locate just about any shot you could ever want, but using them will almost certainly violate someone's copyright. What's more, search tools like TinEye mean there's a very real chance that the original photographer will find out what you've done. Which could be embarrassing, and maybe expensive, too. Fortunately there's a simple and safe alternative. Just look for your free images in a library of stock photos, where the photographer has already given away most, or all of their rights. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. Liked this? Sign up for TechRadar's free Weird Week in Tech newsletterGet the oddest tech stories of the week, plus the most popular news and reviews delivered straight to your inbox.
Advice for Deciding Which Business Idea to Pursue : Launch While Working
Surfing the web is dangerous for me. The rush of information, a new tool, or service is like a drug to those of us who LOVE new stuff. One brilliantly titled headline and I am just like Alice in Wonderland down the rabbit hole begrudgingly finding my way back to the surface after an hour (or two) of exploration. Sometimes I end up finding amazing resources other times it’s a real time waster. Have you ever been there? When too many ideas has whipped me into a mentally chaotic state that keeps me from moving forward I get clarity by focusing on two simple questions: What now? Based on the vision I have for what I want my life to look like, taking a look at what milestone I am working towards right now snaps me back into reality. Are you having a tough time trying to choose which idea to pursue? Having clarity is especially critical when you decide to launch a business while working full-time. What big ideas are deciding between? The following two tabs change content below. Google+
