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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and in 2009 he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership. He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). January 2, 2009 8:54 AM mancjew said.

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, July 29, 2009 Embrace technical debt Financial debt plays an important and positive role in our economy under normal conditions. We can choose to continue paying the interest, or we can pay down the principal by refactoring the quick and dirty design into the better design. Remember Hamlet?

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Lessons Learned: The ABCDEF's of conducting a technical interview

Startup Lessons Learned

The technical interview is at the heart of these challenges when building a product development team, and so I thought it deserved an entire post on its own. At the time, I was a die-heard Java zealot. and going into a long diatribe about how insecure the ActiveX architecture was compared to Javas pristine sandbox.

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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

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Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 12, 2009 Why PHP won When I first learned to program on the web, Perl + CGI was the dominant platform. Since then, PHP (as part of the LAMP stack ) has really been the dominant development platform, at least in the free software and startup worlds. This post is about why.

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Lessons Learned: What is a market? (a guide for hackers)

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, February 12, 2009 What is a market? (a Remember Java? February 12, 2009 3:30 PM Neil said. February 13, 2009 2:05 PM kareem said. February 13, 2009 4:12 PM Brant Cooper said. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?