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Atlassian Inspires UK Testing Startup – Behave for JIRA

Hindsight is a start-up company focused on building intelligent testing software that supports agile practices such as acceptance testing.  Using the Atlassian Marketplace to enable rapid development of their first tool, Behave for JIRA, they had a platform to quickly deliverer a valuable product to a large number of software teams around the world.  Atlassian competitions such as Codegeist showed Hindsight how easy it was to get started with plug-in development with JIRA and inspired the team

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Startup Lessons Learned – What I Learned

Last week I attended Eric Ries' (@ericries) lean startup event, Startup Lessons Learned. Steve Blank (@sgblank) described the event as the "Woodstock for entrepreneurs". To stay true to theme I thought I should follow up and share some "lessons learned". The pivot If I was to focus on only one lesson learned from the event, it would be the pivot. Eric Ries describes the pivot as "the idea that successful startups change directions but stay grounded in what they've learned". Steve Blank provided

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Startup Lessons Learned – More Support For The Startup Community

When I joined Atlassian we were a team of less than 10 people. Now we number around 230, yet we still think of ourselves as a startup - although it occasionally gets debated. Thus it seems fitting to be supporting the startup community we admire so much. This Friday in San Francisco, we'll be sponsoring a hot startup community event: Startup Lessons Learned. The event has an awesome speaker line up including a keynote from Kent Beck and talks from Randy Komisar and Dave McClure. There are also a

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