Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

It was 2009 and it was terribly difficult to get any financing (if you can remember a time like that!) We handed our offices over to our friends at General Assembly , who now use the space to train LA’s next generation of coders. My good friend Adam Lilling and I started Launchpad more than 5 years ago .

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 23, 2015

He was Course 6 and easily one of the best coders around, even though we didn’t call them coders there. And for many, 2008 and 2009 seems very far in the distant past, even though it still massively impacts others in a very negative way. That night I met Dave Jilk, my first business partner and one of my best friends.

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

If you read further back in the blog, you'll see that 2009 wasn't a very good year for me (and a lot of other people, too). Also witness the countless nights and weekend that FOSS people invest in their projects and in that environment coders tend to think other people will not commit. ► 2009. (78). Not likely.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 1, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, May 1, 2009 Lean Startup webcast post-game Wow, what an incredible turnout for webcast this morning, right on the heels of a phenomenal crowd at startup2startup last night. 2009 05 01 How To Build A Lean Startup Step By Step View more presentations from Eric Ries. May 3, 2009 4:45 AM Eric said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 28, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, February 28, 2009 Throwing away working code Lean startups work by systematically eradicating waste. March 2, 2009 1:58 PM programiTV said. March 15, 2009 8:43 AM lecar_red said. March 19, 2009 10:48 AM Alex said. very interesting read :-) Highly appreciated. Thanks for sharing.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. The App Store is a channel for customer acquisition. As the channel gets more and more crowded, just launching an app in the store is getting worse and worse as a strategy for each new entrant.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

Our development was a particularly complicated build requiring 5 developers, a systems architect, an html coder, a SQL specialist, 4 testers, 2 designers, a graphic designer, a project manager and a security specialist. It is often said that bootstrapping is cheap. But producing a professional and slick product costs money.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 17, 2013

At the same time, there were several larger players in the market such as Freelancer and Rent-a-coder. By 2009 oDesk surpassed the nearest competitor, and they are now the clear leader (larger than their top competitors combined) in the rapidly emerging “online work” industry. The rest is history.

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

I first spent time trying to build it myself leveraging open source tools, applying my skills from a single CS class, and trying to be an autodidactic coder. Devs will get the chance to meet other coders (experienced and aspiring) and work in groups of 1-3 to make some wicked apps. Deadline to apply: April 10th, 2009. "A

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www.collegemogul.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Startup Advice: Lessons Learned from Building a Development Team View What links here Posted by Fan Bi on July 19th, 2009 Over the past few months, I’ve explored a bunch of different ways to develop a website without a web developer on the Blank Label team. But, it had to be better than our on-shore outsourced solution!

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 26, 2022

02:55): And this was 2009, 2008 and not a, a lot had changed in the last 10 years. Ben Congleton (03:41): Coder. Like we, we went through our Combinator in 2009. It's still basically the same five players. They're all focused on enterprise Fortune 500 Comcast. Yeah, I mean I'm, I am, I have a computer science degree.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Tweet View Comments Guest Author Sep 20, 2009 This guest post was written by Meebo CEO Seth Sternberg. Get to know brilliant coders, build long-term relationships, and demonstrate that you can add value. The above would make sense if one is unable to afford or obtain coders period. How To Get There. From Nothing To Something.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

But my coders will beat up your coders, any day of the week. No offense, but I honestly think you have no idea what you’re talking about, and your irrational language biases are probably making you lose some really good coders. ” So, essentially you want redneck coders that will kill it and grill it.

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thinkspace.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Along the way, I was hired full time (I believe about 8 months after I started), a coder from India was hired and another contractor was added to the team. 2009 2010 2011. I was originally hired as a contractor, developing a SaaS app from scratch, including DB design and coding. The salary offered (and accepted) was quite low.

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Software By Rob

MARCH 12, 2009

March 12th, 2009 | Micropreneurship , Startups Building your startup? Since it’s written in Ruby, it’s fairly straightforward to read even if you’re not a Ruby coder, and so should be quite easy to adapt to your product. In the long run I wonder which of us lost more from this experience? Subscribe via RSS On Twitter?

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

Come 2009 we felt really bullish about the future for startups because the froth was gone and so, too, were wantrapreneurs. The people left standing had a compelling vision to build companies and we backed many in 2009. When this period was fresh, in Sept 2009, I wrote a very detailed assessment of what I thought had just happened.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, September 11, 2009 The cardinal sin of community management Once you have a product launched, you will the face the joys – and the despair – of a community that grows up around it. September 11, 2009 7:32 AM Sean Murphy said. September 11, 2009 2:28 PM Jeff said.

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