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i was at meetup.com HQ tonight, and they kept saying that they have "startups within a startup" - to refer to teams that are working on various features/product

by ojoe 16y ago

i was at meetup.com HQ tonight, and they kept saying that they have "startups within a startup" - to refer to teams that are working on various features/products. i think a key to doing this is to encourage small and self-organizing teams. have teams that include a sales person, developer, product person, and qa person, and make them sit together, instead of having people sit and work by department.

jamesteow 16y ago
At a place I used to work at, this small group mentality was pretty successful, though it was usually a selection of top tier designers/developers/project managers. It just meant that if you were a part of it, it was amazingly fun. But if you weren't...