The April 16th, 2008 meeting of Seattle Tech Startups had the following speakers:
Startup Software Development - Solving the Tension Between Speed and Quality
Anthony Stevens will deliver a short talk about how to address the competing demands in startups to:
A good product development strategy solves for both speed AND quality by addressing a few critical early decisions that strongly influence your ability to iterate fast and still keep your process from falling apart. This talk will discuss many best practices that will help you keep your momentum when you most need it.
Anthony Stevens has managed technology and product development at several small Seattle companies over the last decade and brings a wealth of practical, hands-on experience to the topic. He’s currently engaged with product development at two different local stealth-mode startups.
Next Generation Consumer Software
By Hillel Cooperman, Jackson Fish Market
I worked for Microsoft from mid-1997 to late 2006 as a program manager, a product unit manager, and all the positions in between. While at Microsoft I helped ship Internet Explorer for the Macintosh, several versions of MSN Explorer, and the Windows Vista User Experience. During my time in MSN and Windows I built the user experience discipline in those organizations to a level of expertise and accomplishment that helped deliver a new level of polished and usable products from Microsoft. After the Vista user experience had been conceived and designed I founded the team that incubated and released several versions of Microsoft Max.
Before Microsoft I worked at two small software companies making products for the Macintosh. I also founded and write for tastingmenu.