Remove Agile Remove CTO Hire Remove Customer Development Remove Java
article thumbnail

Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

article thumbnail

Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

Startup Lessons Learned

At IMVU, when wed hire a new engineer, we could get them to ship code to production on their first day, even if they had never programmed in PHP before. I didnt mean by this that Java programmers are dumb. Which makes them exactly the kind of programmers companies should want to hire. Yes, Python developers DO tend to cost more.

PHP 166