Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

One of the sayings I hear from talented managers in product development is, “good enough never is.&# Especially in teams that are managing by objectives (or OKRs), the pressure to deliver is intense. Good managers work hard to create an environment where this courage thrives. Ship it.&# I certainly have.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

And when — if ever — do you need to hire your own full- or part-time, in-house dev to work on your website and applications? If you’ve got tips for other business owners or want to share your experiences with hiring developers, please leave us a note in the comments section.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Start-ups often hire at one extreme -- closer to a Lead Developer or VP of Engineering -- whereas corporates may focus on their CIO, which is potentially quite a different role. Strategic Report to the CEO or board as an active part of the senior management team. Firstly, theres no one-size-fits-all description.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Full-Time Employees, Freelancers (directly) or Contracts (through staffing companies) – This approach allows your company to maintain total control as it manages the fine details of the project. The underlying questions to ask here are simple: Do you want to manage the small details of the project?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

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. Which makes them exactly the kind of programmers companies should want to hire. This let us hire extremely high-caliber programmers to work on it. As always, Paul is right.

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techcocktail.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

be the manager and product developer). As you grow, think about the right timing for bringing on more people with specific roles, but remember – hire slow, fire fast. As Tony Hsieh of Zappos pointed out during his DCWEEK visit, bad hires have accounted for millions of lost dollars through the years.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Managing employees and tasks remotely can be a recipe for disaster when you’re building a nascent operation. You’ll also likely be hiring local staff for your new office. BonitaSoft has offices in France, the U.S. and China, and recently recorded their 1,000,000th download of Bonita Open Solution.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

A Word on AJAX You seemingly can’t launch a new web site these days without using a few dollops of AJAX here and there. However, you can’t incorporate AJAX into your mock-up, as there’s no functionality. Therefore you need to explicitly include your AJAX requirements in your functional spec. Why do this?

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mashable.com

JANUARY 13, 2012

Gigya offers websites a suite of social technology like social login , comments, game mechanics and a social identity management platform. And often, businesses suffer from a “set it and forget” mentality, in which a product manager will slap a Facebook Like button on his sites and declare the business’s website now social. FriendFeed.

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mashable.com

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

I managed to fetch about 1,300. Or re-save the scripts from Tools + Script Manager. Go to Tools + Script Manager and run Test script. Have you tried running the script from Tools -> Script Manager? You can play with the spreadsheets in two ways. Increase the number of results returned — up to 1,500. Ann Smarty.

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css-tricks.com

JANUARY 2, 2013

I want to request some content via Ajax and get just the content back, no markup - here you go. Almost certainly youll be needing to do some DOM manipulation stuff and Ajax and thats what jQuery slays at. How do you manage those dependancies? chriscoyier fire incompetent devs and hire someone who can do it right from the start.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

I use a service like Tout to manage my email templates for quickly replies. Jobs by Simply Hired. Ready a form letter to personalize and send. Don’t make it sound like a form letter, however, but have your reply and supporting documents ready to go. Here are some valuable templates you can use. Look for Your Lead Investor.

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mashable.com

AUGUST 20, 2011

As his company grows, he likes the option of hiring flexibly and being able to consider job candidates from other cities and countries. Once they solidify the next hire, the ThinkBinder team will be moving to their own offices. So Weiss pays $150 a month to have access to the Hive two days per week.

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mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

The search giant’s VP of Corporate Development, along with CEO Larry Page, signs off on the dozens of acquisitions and acqui-hires made every year, large and small. We believe we have created the quintessential, web based, strategic goals and performance management system in GoalTrak(R). Flag this comment. July 18, 2012 12:30:53.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Update: The end is near, Expensify is hiring a.NET programmer! As you might know, we’re hiring the best programmers in the world. If you are a startup looking to hire really excellent people, take notice of.NET on a resume, and ask why it’s there. And.NET’s languages (C#, IronPython, managed C++, etc.)

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mobile.smashingmagazine.com

JANUARY 16, 2013

It seems that designing for the future is as much a technical issue as it is one of content management (or content understanding). large companies, which if it were to go down this route would have imense problems on the content-management side of business. AJAX-savvy media queries? Thanks for the post. ” Well said!

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Software By Rob

JULY 14, 2009

This ties back into a topic I’ve spoken about previously: when it comes to your product should you build it, buy it or hire it out? While you don’t have to (and should not) hire out every aspect of your product, I cannot imagine handling every detail yourself (or within your team). These days I save 60-100 hours a month.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 22, 2011

Lack Management Support or Buy-in? Podcast: Measuring Rich Media (Ajax, Flash / Flex, RSS & Blogs). Seven Skills to Look for in a Web Analytics Manager. Hiring a Senior Web Analyst? Six Tips For Improving High Bounce / Low Conversion Web Pages. How To Excite People About Web Analytics: Five Tips. Embarrass Them!

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