Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 28, 2008
Its different from selling a product, because it is not part of our regular business practice, is not something that relates to our core competence, and tends not to happen in a repeatable and scalable way. Ill exclude those non- lean startups who basically exist for the purpose of raising bigger and bigger sums of money. Expo SF (May.
Startup Lessons Learned
APRIL 14, 2009
This approach is fundamentally non-scalable. This is why companies often get out-competed by former employees (Palm vs Handspring to name just one), even though the upstart lacks all of the familiar resources, tools, processes, and support they used to have. Go on an agile diet quickly. They are closing orders. Great post!
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Startup Lessons Learned
AUGUST 8, 2009
Worse of all, the plaintext codes we were used to sending were considered non-authoritative, since they could be pulled off a third-party network. There's lots of information about performance and metrics out there, as well as a peer expectation that being concerned about those things is an important part of being a competent engineer.
Startup Lessons Learned
JULY 13, 2009
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, July 13, 2009 The Principles of Product Development Flow If youve ever wondered why agile or lean development techniques work, The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development by Donald G. Reinertsen is the book for you. Does this sound familiar? Expo SF (May.
Startup Lessons Learned
NOVEMBER 13, 2008
His book Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production is a fascinating read, even though its decidedly non-practical. Hes a new employee, and he was not properly trained in TDD So far, this isnt much different from the kind of analysis any competent operations team would conduct for a site outage. Expo SF (May.
Startup Lessons Learned
MARCH 24, 2009
The solution for app developers caught in this vicious cycle is to develop competency in positioning. I would bet (although I don't have the data) that for normal (non-hyper-addict) Facebook users, the time between logins is strongly correlated with the number of high-quality notifications they receive. So, in summary: 1.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 8, 2009
I'm a bit late, and this one might be controversial to some, but long-duration non-competes hurt the development of startups by adding friction to the entrepreneurial economy. Truth be told, we've got defense contractors here just like California does too. It would be good to spread understanding on this issue. Expo SF (May.
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