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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

If engineers want more time to spend making their old code more pretty, they are invited to do so on the weekends. The idea is that once we move to the new system (or coding standard, or API, or.) The current code is spaghetti, but the new code will be elegant. Its become "legacy code" and part of the problem.

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Do Less. More.

Both Sides of the Table

There’s too much PR and too many tech blogs and too many newsletters and aggregators and Twitter summarizers to even try to catch everything that’s going on and equally there’s so much noise that it becomes harder to be heard. .” One needs to be in during bull markets and bear markets. Year in, year out.

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The investment that didn’t happen

K9 Ventures

As a two person team Arlo and AJ built out the whole site and the back-end technology — and built it to scale — at one point they did a A/B test on Zappos and were easily able to handle all the traffic coming to the Zappos test site while being able to show results from the enormous Zappos inventory. And crank it out they did.

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McKinsey highlight #1 - Cracking The Code - Yes

Cracking the Code

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Done deal: after a quick syndication with the kitchen team (their job was at stake, so they were easy to convince.), I guessed the measuring spoon was not used diligently. software.

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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Now that Google’s acquisition of ITA is closed, following lenghty FTC review, it would appear Kayak is poised to proceed with their IPO in the coming months. =. Kayak Software Corporation. Revenue growth: 51% YoY (2010), 1% YoY (2009), 131% YoY (2008). April 17, 2011.