Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Eric) In a bar in Amsterdam in 2005, my two cofounders and I came to the sad conclusion that startup we tried to built for two years was doomed. The first hire The first hire was critical. Hiring him was a no brainer, and he didn't disappoint. Continuous deployment of hardware is an exciting new capability.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 5, 2008

You can find the 2005 version here. link] And - of course - going through [link] and reading up on the various different approaches different companies have (successfully) taken towards getting scalability at reasonably low cost. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. So, for reference, I am Adam, of [link].

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 22, 2010

The cost of creating new companies is falling rapidly, and access to markets, distribution, and information is within the reach of anyone with an Internet connection. For example, over 25% of the technology companies founded between 1995-2005 had a key immigrant founder. Read the rest of The New Startup Arms Race at Huffington Post.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

At IMVU, when wed hire a new engineer, we could get them to ship code to production on their first day, even if they had never programmed in PHP before. Which makes them exactly the kind of programmers companies should want to hire. This let us hire extremely high-caliber programmers to work on it. As always, Paul is right.

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