Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

Like a financial debt, the technical debt incurs interest payments, which come in the form of the extra effort that we have to do in future development because of the quick and dirty design choice. Startups especially can benefit by using technical debt to experiment, invest in process, and increase their product development leverage.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

So how does a former Apple Final Cut Pro developer start a blogging website? So he developed the function just for him to use. At Posterous, the mobile and web developers are on separate teams. It just so happened that while the mobile team redesigned the mobile site, the web team built the backend APIs.

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www.redmonk.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

One of the hottest trends in tech right now is NoSQL (If you’re a software developer get acquainted with it). But, why are there so many logging APIs in Java: log4j, SLF4J, sun logging, the layers on top, the custom bridges tools like Jetty add to bridge to one of them. So the cool kids aren’t using Java. Or are they?

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www.redmonk.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

One of the hottest trends in tech right now is NoSQL (If you’re a software developer get acquainted with it). But, why are there so many logging APIs in Java: log4j, SLF4J, sun logging, the layers on top, the custom bridges tools like Jetty add to bridge to one of them. So the cool kids aren’t using Java. Or are they?

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 23, 2015

Does it have appropriate API so that you can integrate it with front end billing system like WHMCS, HostBill, Blesta, etc? Does it support your preferred database server (MySQL, SQL Server 2008 R2 / 2012, etc.)? Is the panel actively developed with updates / security features?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

If youre looking for resources on getting started, see " Continuous deployment in 5 easy steps ") The goal of continuous deployment is to help development teams drive waste out of their process by simultaneously reducing the batch size and increasing the tempo of their work. How severely is failure punished?

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 28, 2009

Even worse, the sad state of product development generally means that the new "features" are as likely to be ones that make the product worse, not better. A typical "new feature" release is, in my experience, about 80% changes to underlying APIs or architecture. In a successful startup, the development team is also growing.

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Venture Chronicles

MAY 5, 2010

Weather in July 2009 was a lot warmer than weather in July 2008. The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) has been tasked with developing a smart charging protocol but it is not available yet and car makers, in their own words, are “not waiting for it&#. It is bad economics and bad politics.

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www.readwriteweb.com

JUNE 13, 2011

The channel is sponsored by the Intel AppUp Developer Program. NET SDK The AppUp developer program launched support for.NET applications by releasing the.NET SDK, along with anIDE Plug-In for Visual Studio 2008. The IDE Plug-insupports both the C/C++ and.NET SDK for Microsoft Windows when using Visual Studio 2008.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

APRIL 20, 2010

Although I had been developing softwares since 1999, it was the first time I could think of an idea, write the application, publish it online and virally reach thousands of people! Everything on Facebook is calling the attention of the users and as a developer you have to continuously innovate if you want to be the one they go to.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

In my previous post, The VC Ice Age is Thawing (for now) I wrote about the reasons why the VC market came to a screeching halt in September 2008 and remained largely shut until at least April 2009. Don’t wait for your perfect business development deals to come to fruition that are 6-months away in your pipeline.

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VC Cafe

MAY 3, 2010

But during attendance at the TechCrunch 50 conference in San Francisco in 2008, the founders cottoned-on to the idea that publishers could benefit by adding a rich layer of social and other functionality to their sites. The central goal of Wibiya is to be a distribution channel and to provide tools for developers to serve web publishers.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

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ConversionXL

MARCH 10, 2021

When Windows Server 2008 R2 was launched, Microsoft built off the momentum with the release of Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) 2.0. As a core feature of Windows Server, AD FS was primarily developed as a platform—not an end-to-end solution for authenticating single sign-on needs. Microsoft AD FS. Integration #2.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Why Every Entrepreneur Should Write and 9 Tips To Get Started - OnStartups , September 27, 2010 "The best part of blogging is the people you will meet"- Hugh MacLeod repeating wisdom from Loic Lemeur to me at the Big Pink at 2 am in South Beach after the Future of Web Apps 2008. development is the proliferation of web Apps (e.g.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

Back in late 2008, I noticed that one of my Flickr contacts seemed to be short a few photos--like, a few thousand of them. Flickr has an API. S3 has an API. Always working on something entrepreneurial, he had a team of developers at the ready to execute on new projects. The origin of this company is pretty interesting.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

The company had just 1,00,000 registered users in 2008, which climbed to a staggering 4M registered users within a mere 15 month period, thanks to its straightforward referral program. The company is also said to have made the most of the recommended contact feature available in Gmail and Android APIs, which resulting in higher conversions.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

At the end of my four-month term, they brought me on part-time to run a team that built out a system around the software I’d developed at night.”. He duly took it and vowed to start a company when his finished his third and final placement with RIM in December 2008. The answer that Kik landed on was to develop a platform. “We

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viniciusvacanti.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

In 2008, we couldn’t find a technical co-founder for Yipit. Your service has to be secure, it has to scale immediately, you need PhD’s to help you develop algorithms and you’re probably applying for a few patents. The tech aspect is mainly writing and reading from a database and you might build on top of an API.

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viniciusvacanti.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

In 2008, we couldn’t find a technical co-founder for Yipit. Your service has to be secure, it has to scale immediately, you need PhD’s to help you develop algorithms and you’re probably applying for a few patents. The tech aspect is mainly writing and reading from a database and you might build on top of an API.

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www.foliomag.com

JULY 31, 2012

Audience Development. 2008 FOLIO Award Winners. Digital audience developers and executives discuss their favorites. The breakdown: “Pinterest doesn’t have an open API yet, so data has been pretty limited. Leslie Ellwood, Executive Director, Audience Development, American Media Inc. Circulation/Audience Development.

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blog.adaptiveblue.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Fast forward to almost 2008 and those days are gone. It is okay to go with a cheaper provider when you are just developing the code, but your production needs to run on a rock solid system. Amazon S3 - The Simple Storage Service This web service provides simple API for reading and writing objects into a virtual hash.

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blog.stackoverflow.com

APRIL 20, 2010

Your decision to go with OpenID has only helped OpenID develop into something great. I just came from an OpenID Summit near San Jose, CA and we have some great ideas filling the spec development pipe that will hopefully resolve some of the remaining issues you have with OpenID. And it’s not! My ultimate opinion? 21 queries.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

A given customer would have an entity URL that looked like this: customer://1234 Somewhere in your API, you have a way to access data about a given customer. Whichever API you use, URL-based sharding is very easy to understand. The better your internal APIs and data architecture, the easier this step will be.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 27, 2009

Customer Development : a disciplined approach to finding out if there is a market for your product before its too late. Customer Development Engineering : techniques for accelerating your product development. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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mashable.com

DECEMBER 29, 2011

And just as Groupon unleashed a frenzy of daily deal sites after its launch in 2008, Birchbox helped make 2011 a year filled with new subscription services for just about everything. I’m elated to see this develop, and I cannot wait to be apart of it one day. Developers Work to Bring Siri to Older iPhones [VIDEO].

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

The pace of SaaS company creation in Europe is growing even faster, up from 200 companies in 2008-10 to 670 in 2014-16. Large System Integrators are developing dedicated practices to drive this change. One pioneer is CallSign, which has developed an adaptive authentication platform, getting rid of passwords.

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mashable.com

AUGUST 20, 2011

“When your baby son and your developer are vying for your attention, it’s challenging to work the two out,&# says Molluzzo, admitting that to-dos sometimes get lost in the shuffle. Soon they had grown into a shared space in San Francisco, and finally zozi got its own office space in August 2008.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The average revenue multiple is now 17x+, close to 10 times higher than during the 2008 crisis! This led me to launch the SaaS 13 Index in February 2008 while I was at Bessemer. To develop the list, we surveyed more than 1,500 European and Israeli private SaaS companies across 20 countries and a number of categories.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

At the end, I asked myself what are the most critical resources I need to be successful and the answer was partners and developers. This taught me that we needed to having benchmarking tools incorporated into the development cycle from the beginning due to the nature of our product. I realized that money was not the issue.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Or, rather, more offensively to Facebook and Google employees, less offensive to.NET developers, though the underlying message is the same.). But just to clarify a couple points, 24-hours into the storm: Yes,NET developers are great at what they do. It’s the most modern platform for application development on the planet.

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VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2010

Media centers were a hot topic, and I used the XBOX media center to develop the product. Long story short, I ended up spending a year and a half in China from 2008 to 2010 and now I’m hard at work with BizMe2. and our brilliant developers worked without a salary (for options). VC Cafe: What led you to start BizMe2?

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 31, 2020

For consumers scarred by the 2008 financial crisis, those brands may be perceived as “safer” than fintech alternatives, but that doesn’t nearly explain the sharp increase in share of new accounts. Meanwhile, rewards for debit cards were discontinued by many banks after the 2008 financial crisis. Source: Cornerstone Advisors.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Kapor is the original designer of Lotus 1-2-3 and former CEO of Lotus Development. Ted Serbinski: Angel investor Ted Serbinski sold his startup MothersClick to Lifetime in 2008 and joined the cable network as CTO of the ParentsClick Network. He also sits on the board of the Mozilla Foundation and created Second Life.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

In 2008, he founded StackOverflow , and it has become the foundation for a question and answer platform called StackExchange. This ended up developing into Visual Basic for Applications , the strategy for programmability in Microsoft Office. Do you see product managers as a hindrance to software development? 15 minutes.

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VC Cafe

JULY 6, 2010

There’s no way to do cloud storage for free, so Libox has developed a way to let you take advantage of the storage you already own, along with your network of friends and family, to make free multimedia sharing possible, instead of using expensive cloud computing. But now we can easily extend Libox by openning our developer API.

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