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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

The idea is that once we move to the new system (or coding standard, or API, or.) I now believe that the "pick two" concept is fundamentally flawed, and that lean startups can achieve all three simultaneously: quickly bring high-quality software to market at low cost. and force the whole company to accept a rewrite of some key system.

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Lessons Learned: Product development leverage

Startup Lessons Learned

Its a key lean startup concept. The idea of leverage is simple: for every ounce of effort your product development team puts into your product, find ways to magnify that effort by getting many other people to invest along with you. Open APIs and data-oriented architecture (aka "web 2.0"). Expo SF (May.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

You can measure this yourself: go to any list of startups, maybe look at YCombinator’s recent graduate class , or Scoble’s list of picks for 2010 , or Sequoia’s list of seed companies — or go find a list you like better. A language is just a tool for a good developer, not a limitation.

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