Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

The new design improved on the old one in several ways, but these improvements didnt translate all the way through the funnel. Usually, I think that means youve lost some good aspect of the old design. The designers might be telling you that the new design looks much better than the old one, and thats probably true.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 7, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, May 7, 2009 Fear is the mind-killer Fear is an emotion that slows teams down. Second, leveraging a dynamic scripting language (like PHP) for building web applications made it easy to quickly set up a simple, non-disruptive deployment process. link] May 11, 2009 9:04 PM Ian Wilson said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, January 4, 2009 Sharding for startups The most important aspect of a scalable web architecture is data partitioning. Sharding for startups To support a single partitioning scheme is easy, especially if you design for it from the start. Go ahead, poke holes in the design. Does that make sense?

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www.huffingtonpost.com

MAY 10, 2011

Minted.com is both a global design community and stationery retailer. Independent graphic designers from all over the world submit designs to our ongoing design competitions, and Minteds community votes to tell us what to sell. Personal Lifestyle - commute is a factor in their decision process.

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kenegozi.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Here in delver we had many success stories with great people coming in with having almost no experience in.NET or Java (which are the major technologies we use here), but php/python/c++/whatever instead. Dec, 2009 (5). Oct, 2009 (3). Aug, 2009 (4). Jul, 2009 (5). Jun, 2009 (4). May, 2009 (2).

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www.drowningamerican.com

JUNE 22, 2012

Posted on November 14, 2009 by Travis Biziorek. Here is the original post: Early Stage Web Application Start-Up Seeking Developer/Designer. Who You Are: Above all, you need to be both a programmer and designer. Application programming Expertise: PHP, ColdFusion, AJAX, Web Services (RSS, REST, SOAP, XML-RPC, etc.).

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 2, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, January 2, 2009 Lessons Learned on Mashable today I had the good fortune to be asked to write a guest post over at Mashable , which is running today, called HOW TO: Raise Money in a Down Economy. January 2, 2009 11:54 AM Daniel Davie said. January 2, 2009 4:48 PM Chris Desouza said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Most of this code was from a variety of open source PHP projects that were glued together with the shortest path to goal possible. February 11, 2009 8:05 AM Anonymoussaid. June 15, 2009 9:27 PM Mark Graban said. link] June 20, 2009 2:52 PM Anonymoussaid. We had closer to several hundreds of thousands of lines of code.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 28, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, January 28, 2009 Refactoring yourself out of business Let me start out by saying I am a big fan of refactoring , the ongoing process of changing code so that it performs the same behaviors but has more elegant structure. January 29, 2009 12:08 AM Mahesh said. January 29, 2009 1:11 PM Paul W.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 19, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 19, 2009 Lean hiring tips In preparing for the strategy series panel this week, I have been doing some thinking about costs. January 21, 2009 6:39 AM Kevin Merritt said. January 21, 2009 1:19 PM Jon Bischke said. January 23, 2009 4:13 PM TS said. Another terrific post, Eric.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

Linux (instead of UNIX), Apache (web server software), MySQL (instead of Oracle) and PHP. Of course there were variants – we preferred PostGres to MySQL and many people used other programming languages than PHP. It was driven by the introduction of open-source software, most notably what was called the LAMP stack.

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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.

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thinkspace.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

PHP Veteran. I was originally hired as a contractor, developing a SaaS app from scratch, including DB design and coding. PHP Veteran. PHP Veteran. This is an excellent supplement that many entrepreneurs could use to design compensation plans that make sence. 2009 2010 2011. Animikh Sen. link] Joseph.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 6, 2008

I know some of those compilers are no longer available (some are hosted, others are not), so I took the liberty of putting up a copy of the PHP Greasemonkey Compiler. April 13, 2009 12:40 PM Gaborsaid. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Apache with Django and mod_wsgi » Posted by Aidan, 6 th July 2009. Design and maintain a roadmap of projects to meet demanding business objectives, taking advantage of trends and new technology where appropriate. Work with others to produce graphic design for prototype.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Use Google and search for “ruby&# or “python&# of “php&# and “meetup&# or “interest group&# or “user group&# and your city (or the nearest big metro area or technology center). says: July 10, 2009 at 11:17 am fantastic article. says: July 25, 2009 at 3:56 am [.] Blog at WordPress.com.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 29, 2008

Its nearly impossible to get a good read on all six attributes in a single interview, so its important to design an interview process that will give you a good sampling of data to look at. For example, I wold often work the circle-drawing question with candidates who only had ever programmed in a web-based scripting language like PHP.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

Meanwhile, we were building our app in PHP, using a generic DB driver and mysql, "for the time being." Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. We tried to learn how to create a schema, or really anything at all, and mostly failed.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

My Experience Back in 2002/2003 I spent hours writing a sales letter and emailing it to 15 local design firms, offering my services as an outsourced development staff (I coded in PHP,NET and Java at the time). September 29th, 2009 | Software Development Building your startup? And that’s the position you want to be in.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 11, 2009

Or tried to install a Perl or PHP module that didn’t come out of the box? August 11th, 2009 | Micropreneurship , Startups Building your startup? All those design programs that insist on covering your screen with useless subwindows… I wonder how they successfully compete against no software. #3 at 11:07 am [.]

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

If your school doesn’t already have a student group designed to foster collaboration between groups of students with the skills necessary to get a startup rolling, start one! It brings together students from both the undergraduate and graduate levels, across disciplines such as design, computer science and business.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 27, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, January 27, 2009 Three freemium strategies Im excited to see so much attention being paid to freemium businesses lately. January 28, 2009 1:46 AM Anonymoussaid. January 28, 2009 1:46 AM do good said. January 28, 2009 1:54 AM startupcfo said. That should be 5% by the way. Great post!

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 7, 2009

Graphic Design - Here’s another danger zone where developers cost themselves money by trying to design their own graphics. Please, I beg you, pay someone to design your web site. Software - If you’re one of those lucky Ruby or PHP developers then most of your tools are free. Check out my book Like this post?

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www.drowningamerican.com

JUNE 22, 2012

The first time we hired partners for Kibin was way back in late 2009. Some experience with PHP and MySQL. Design experience also a plus. ← Previous. Next → How we Hire for Sweat Equity (Part 2)… Posted on April 7, 2011 by Travis Biziorek. You can read more about that here. It was a much different time then.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, September 9, 2009 Happy blogiversary (my present: a brand new URL) Its official: Startup Lessons Learned has passed the one-year mark. Dave September 9, 2009 11:52 AM johnhaden said. September 9, 2009 5:46 PM Jim Murphy said. September 9, 2009 6:35 PM Chrissaid. >>

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 1, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, January 1, 2009 Happy new year When I started writing this blog a few months ago, I wasnt sure if anyone would find it interesting. Heres hoping your 2009 is inspiring and a time of growth. What do you expect for 2009? January 1, 2009 7:36 PM Michael Scepaniak said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 6, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, January 6, 2009 Lessons Learned office hours For me, there were plenty of surprises in the survey I conducted a few weeks ago. January 21, 2009 | 6:30 - 8:30PM Battery Ventures 2884 Sand Hill Rd. One of the other speakers is someone I know well: Seth Sternberg , founder of Meebo.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 11, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, January 11, 2009 CPI > CPC Google revolutionized advertising by popularizing pay-per-click. Towards a new entrepreneurship ▼ 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. So why buy advertising on a cost-per-install basis?

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

From Strategy to Development Whether you are out-sourcing or developing in-house there are two ways to build a system: Give your developers a rough idea of what to build and keep iterating the design as they build it; Give your developers detailed documentation of what to build.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

JULY 18, 2010

Game features that worked for me Level system Progress bar Competition Against yourself Against your friends Against everyone weekly Against everyone in group In-app chat Limited amount of actions Watch out for cheaters! Its really easy. Head into the the Titan Options menu and check out the footer section.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

JULY 18, 2010

Game features that worked for me Level system Progress bar Competition Against yourself Against your friends Against everyone weekly Against everyone in group In-app chat Limited amount of actions Watch out for cheaters! Its really easy. Head into the the Titan Options menu and check out the footer section.

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