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? Massive proprietary databases? The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? But along the way, something strange happened. I dont think so.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

As I evolved my thinking, I started to frame the problem this way: How can we devise a product development process that allows the business leaders to take responsibility for the outcome by making conscious trade-offs? When I first encountered agile software techniques, in the form of extreme programming , I thought I had found the answer.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

PHP has always scored well on this count, with lots of support for database drivers, URL parsing, HTTP fetching, regular expressions - you name it. Those implement useful design patterns such as MVC, database gateway and other abstractions which make maintainability much easier. Honestly, the PEAR database is nothing compared to CPAN.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

In school I was being pounded day and night with anything that has to do with agile software development. When I entered the company, I realized that there were no process and I quickly applied what I know about agile software development. I am basically a one-man shop. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 19, 2009

They maintain a huge database of passive candidates, by offering to pay them when they interview. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Given that most recruiting channels are pay-for-performance, its usually cheaper, too, because it has a lower conversion rate. Expo SF (May.

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MARCH 10, 2010

Coupled with A/B testing, customer development, and thinking through business problems in a scientific, hypothesis-driven way, you end up with a powerful cocktail of techniques to build a modern startup in the most iterative way possible. . If you liked this post, please subscribe or follow me on Twitter.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 19, 2009

But instead of spending the time and money to develop products on spec, TPGTEX creates mocked-up webpages that list the features of a potential new product -- such as a system for making radio-frequency identification, or RFID, labels -- along with its price. The key ideas are customer development , the pivot , MVP, and root cause analysis.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 22, 2008

Just dump the results in a database as you get them, and let your reports calculate scores in real-time. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? What is customer development? No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 1, 2009

LIKED: Y startups fail, cont deployment vs waterfall vs agile, small batches & learn fr biz metrics #leanstartup As concise a summary as Ive ever seen. With so many deployments how do you deal with database schema changes and data conversion for these schema changes? farazq : Awesome session @ericries. Expo SF (May.

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