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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, October 4, 2008 About the author ( Update January, 2010: This post originally dates from October, 2008 back when I first started writing this blog. He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). My first time at your blog.

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Reincubate: Blog: Chief Technology Officer job description (for web, start-up or corporate)

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Experience Five years experience directing IT; a further five years software engineering management or operations management experience ; and two years experience in a start-up or highly entrepreneurial environment. © 1996 - 2010 Reincubate Limited. XML sitemap. VAT registered #867 0159 09.

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How To Find A Programmer To Build Your Startup Idea

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Ycombinator © 2010 Social Matchbox, - WordPress Themes by DBT. Ycombinator © 2010 Social Matchbox, - WordPress Themes by DBT. . Ycombinator © 2010 Social Matchbox, - WordPress Themes by DBT. . Ycombinator © 2010 Social Matchbox, - WordPress Themes by DBT.

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Can A Startup Do OffShore Development? Part 2

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You can find the latest and greatest Microsoft and Java certified developers here and indeed the entire consulting industry is built around certification. As a result, local universities here churn out thousands of new graduates each year who can spell Microsoft but understand nothing about proper software engineering.

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What is Drupal? or, My retraining in Software Development

Scalable Startup

The world has changed – software development, app dev, and software engineering are taking over the center of the conversation, and Drupal/PHP is taking over the lead. In the birthplace of Java, BSD, SQL and many other critical software technologies, Drupal and PHP are spreading like a California wildfire.

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My story and support for the Founders Visa

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In December 1996, while I was still a student in the Master of Software Engineering program at Carnegie Mellon, I got bit hard by the entrepreneurial bug. In my attempt to build credibility and recruit people for my little company, I had started the Pittsburgh Java Users Group (the PittJUG today has close to 500 members!).

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

Startup Lessons Learned

For software engineers, I think this absolutely has to be a programming problem solved on a whiteboard. 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. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.