Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, August 8, 2009 Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and whats changed since then) My recent article on technical debt and its positive uses generated a fair bit of controversy. The argument itself got me thinking a lot about design and its role in building products.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Unlike Intel chips, MIPS chip architecture also made it possible to plug in a math co-processor. Personal supercomputer s meant yet again learning something completely new; new computer architectures, new applications and customers, new markets. to move their applications to our unique machine architecture.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

If youre trying to design an architecture to maximize agility, how can that work if some people are working in TDD and others not? Platform selection and technical design - if your business strategy is to create a low-burn, highly iterative lean startup, youd better be using foundational tools that make that easy rather than hard.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

A bout 50,000 visitors from 200 countries are expected to attend the 2010 GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week, starting tomorrow February 15th. VC Cafe's own little 'cloud' for MWC 2010, taken from the Israeli IMA brochure. The IMA expects the companies to have more than 4,000 meetings during the conference.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

One of the times I screwed this up it left a legacy of 25 years of questionable design in microprocessor architecture. It has to be little-endian or we won’t design your chip into our systems.” The reaction from the chip circuit design guys was, “OK, we could do that. What a great idea.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 15, 2023

#12- To help companies make money Photo Credit: Mark Lindquist Digital Air Strike is an award-winning automotive social media and digital engagement company that I started from my kitchen table in 2010 despite the ongoing recession. My goal is to give my customers something special and personal, that will make them stand out from the crowd.

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Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2023

In contrast, designing AI-driven enterprise software or building dating apps are comparatively simple problems.) I’ve known Professor Cristobal Garcia since 2010 when he hosted my first visit to Catholic University in Santiago of Chile and to southern Patagonia. Co mpanies also face Wicked problems.

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Board Effect

MAY 5, 2021

Both designations fall under the umbrella of nonprofit organizations, and these classifications are only 2 of the 29 different types of nonprofits that fall under the U.S. Members are limited to employees of a designated employer within a particular location. What is the difference between a 501(c)(3) and a 501(c)(4)? IRS tax code.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

This required convincing software vendors to move their applications to our unique machine architecture. Not a trivial job considering our computer was one of the first parallel architectures, and our compiler required specific knowledge of our vector architecture to get the most out of it. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Then, the first languages designed for Web development began to show up. In 2003, another CMS, called WordPress, came into play, and with its plugin architecture, WordPress quickly won the hearts of the development community. WordPress was typically used by Web designers who learned to code or by self-taught developers.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 19, 2009

We hired a PhD in computational fluid dynamics from Duke who had worked on helicopter design. Reply steveblank , on May 25, 2010 at 1:05 am Said: Tom McMurray. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. At the time this was a pretty controversial decision. These hires were definitely not your standard marketing types.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

Their engineering teams didn’t have the expertise using off-the-shelf microprocessors (back then “real” computer companies designed their own instruction sets and operating systems.) He had spent 12 years at DEC , first as a hardware engineer designing part of the PDP-16 , then as the marketing manager for the LSI-11 and then into sales.

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Steve Blank

MAY 28, 2009

For example, complex new semiconductor architectures, (i.e. a new type of graphics architecture, or a new communications chip architecture) mean you may not know if the chip performs as well as you thought until you get first silicon. Reply Alpha Testing « Two Sixes Blog , on July 5, 2010 at 7:04 pm Said: [.]

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

Like a financial debt, the technical debt incurs interest payments, which come in the form of the extra effort that we have to do in future development because of the quick and dirty design choice. 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.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2009

It’s important to invest in good architecture so that your website will scale once customers arrive. If you make that investment, and then customers arrive, and the site stays up, most companies will reward the people who built the architecture and, thus, prevented the scaling problems. Why do they harbor that paranoia?

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

They had this great architecture, and Apple had figured out to get movies into their own computers for a demo, but for the rest of us there was no physical device that allowed an average consumer to plug a video camera or VCR into and get video into a Mac. com Michael Robertson. Now he wanted to go off start his own company.

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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. So far, this is just a summary of what all of us who have attempted to build web-scale architectures considers obvious. But startups rarely have either luxury. Easy to understand.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 30, 2009

Insist on high levels of usability, UI design, and polish. Even though some aspects of the product were eventually vindicated as good ones, the underlying architecture suffered from hard-to-change assumptions. Without conscious process design, product development teams turn lines of code written into momentum in a certain direction.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

We wanted an agile approach that would allow us to build our software architecture as we needed it, without downtime, but also without large amounts of up-front cost. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 17, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, June 17, 2010 No departments Big companies have departments. The artists on the team had called in the big guns, and VP-level folks were there to explain the importance of certain aspects of the visual design that threatened to be cut. Startups are companies. Why do companies have departments?

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kenegozi.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Not even with bad system architectures. It is architectures and processes that do not scale. architecture(28). Oct, 2010 (4). Sep, 2010 (7). Aug, 2010 (3). Jul, 2010 (1). Jun, 2010 (2). May, 2010 (2). Apr, 2010 (4). Mar, 2010 (3). Feb, 2010 (4). Jan, 2010 (7).

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ConversionXL

JULY 22, 2021

User experience (UX) tends to be thought of more as a design issue rather than an SEO one. This makes website architecture an important technical SEO factor. As well as prioritizing key pages in your site architecture, an audit helps convince Google of a page’s importance by: . We’ll look at each of these in this article.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Derek Sivers about me blog books email list contact How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen 2010-06-19 Do you have an idea for a website, online business, or application, but need a programmer to turn that idea into reality? © 2010 Derek Sivers comments Pam Mark Hall (2010-06-19) # Derek, Yes,Yes,Yes! Thanks you!

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Design and maintain a roadmap of projects to meet demanding business objectives, taking advantage of trends and new technology where appropriate. Hold responsibility for IT governance of platform & services, including telecommunications, networks, infrastructure, engineering, media, and architecture. XML sitemap.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 13, 2009

Reinertsen weaves together ideas from lean manufacturing, maneuver warfare, queuing theory, and even the architecture of computer operating systems and the Internet. Product development deals in designs, which are fundamentally intangible. Team New Zealand designed the yacht that won the Americas Cup.

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femgineer.com

JULY 18, 2010

HOME About the Femgineer Speaking Engagements Reading List Recruiting Startup Engineers With the startup market taking off, there is always a clamor to find good engineers, developers, and designers. Poornima July 20th, 2010 REPLY QUOTE Always good to brainstorm with people from all walks of life. I find that helps a lot.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 19, 2015

Leading international workplace conference series WORKTECH will be returning this year to Singapore – the Asia edition has been held here since 2010 – and will be held on 22 and 23 September. Young|Upstarts is a media partner of WORTECH15 Asia.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Most of the other processs changes - mandatory design reviews (prelimninary, critical, etc), - documenting all our procedures, and so on - were to support those two factors. It might be more precise to categorize them of two kinds of flaws: flaws in implementation, and flaws in design. Eric, Is this post about Architecture?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

We talk about taking advantages of the incredible agility offered by modern web architecture for extremely rapid deployment, etc. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Can this methodology be used for startups that are not exclusively about software?

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

I know them right away - we can talk high-level architecture all the way down to the bits-and-bytes of his system. When the architecture needs modifying - why do we need a meeting? Building a good application architecture is not just coding. Its common to find a hacker at the heart of almost any successful technology company.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

It seems your cluster architecture is one of the key architectural constraints making continuous deployment possible. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. link] June 20, 2009 2:52 PM Anonymoussaid. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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readwrite.com

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

Responsive Design Goes Mainstream. So far, responsive design has remained on the fringes of Web development - something nice to do “if you have time." If “RIA” (Rich Internet Applications) was the buzzword in 2010, “SPA” will be the buzzword in 2013. By the end of 2013, Android 2.x Thats about to change. HTML Gets Naked (Again).

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nickpoint.co.uk

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Through LinkedIn we identified 12 local freelancers for our front-end web design/dev work. We’ve now experienced working with logo designers and Keegan is an experienced designer with flare. On the design side of things (logos, business cards, web design etc) how do you/anyone else feel about using students?

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

design, build, operate/use, maintain, and service). Department of Health and Human Services in 2010, has opened growing amounts of health-related knowledge and information in computer-readable form from the vaults of the government and publicized the availability of these data to entrepreneurs and innovators.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 29, 2008

and going into a long diatribe about how insecure the ActiveX architecture was compared to Javas pristine sandbox. 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. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 28, 2009

A typical "new feature" release is, in my experience, about 80% changes to underlying APIs or architecture. You might have the interaction designer who designed it take a look to see if it really conforms to their design. Switching these customers directly to continuous deployment sounds harder than it really is.

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www.cscyphers.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Enterprise Architecture (5). OpenWorld 2010. December 2010 (3). November 2010 (3). October 2010 (5). September 2010 (17). August 2010 (2). July 2010 (1). June 2010 (2). May 2010 (7). April 2010 (3). March 2010 (1). February 2010 (4). January 2010 (1).

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