Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

Like a financial debt, the technical debt incurs interest payments, which come in the form of the extra effort that we have to do in future development because of the quick and dirty design choice. We can choose to continue paying the interest, or we can pay down the principal by refactoring the quick and dirty design into the better design.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

A Phone Call After I left MIPS Computers I was in New York tagging along with a friend (a computer architect whose products at Apple a decade later would change the shape of personal computing) who was consulting for a voice recognition startup. to move their applications to our unique machine architecture.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

A CTO will guide your product strategy, market validation, architectural decisions, process optimization, recruiting, and hiring. Voltage Control specializes in Innovation Workshops such as Design Sprints. We facilitate Design Sprints in Austin, Houston, San Antonio, Dallas, New York, and San Francisco.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 10, 2022

What happens when you give new, underrepresented, and geographically diverse founders a real chance during a time of economic uncertainty? . In our initial blog post , we outlined our decision to step away from the universally accepted architecture of what an accelerator “should” look like. ShelfLife: New York, New York.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

We wanted an agile approach that would allow us to build our software architecture as we needed it, without downtime, but also without large amounts of up-front cost. After all, the worst kind of waste in software development is code to support a use case that never materializes. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 17, 2010

The artists on the team had called in the big guns, and VP-level folks were there to explain the importance of certain aspects of the visual design that threatened to be cut. I was invited to a feature decision meeting, where the team was closing in on a detailed spec. The meeting was tense. The engineering team wasn’t happy either.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

The biggest strategic mistake Silicon Valley and TechCrunch, Forbes, New York Times attempting to portray tech innovation as a white guy thing was failing to recognize technology only goes as far as the adopting ecosystem. Decentralization is Fake News. You need a community and ecosystem that adopts and use your tech.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Whether you love Apple or hate it, you can’t deny they’ve designed more than a place to sell products with their stores worldwide. If that wasn’t already enough, sleek, clean, and modern architecture creates a place where people just want to come to hang out and take advantage of the free Wi-Fi. billion in sales.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Most of the other processs changes - mandatory design reviews (prelimninary, critical, etc), - documenting all our procedures, and so on - were to support those two factors. It might be more precise to categorize them of two kinds of flaws: flaws in implementation, and flaws in design. Eric, Is this post about Architecture?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

We talk about taking advantages of the incredible agility offered by modern web architecture for extremely rapid deployment, etc. Expo New York New York, NY Nov 19 The Lean Startup at MIT Boston, MA Nov 20 Lunch workshop at Dogpatch Labs Boston, MA Dec 17 Lean Startup Cohort program begins San Francisco, CA KISSmetrics KISSmetrics is loading.

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www.joelonsoftware.com

MARCH 24, 2010

Wanted: High Frequency Performance Operations Specialist at Two Sigma Investments (New York, New York United States). Someone who has some background in software engineering and is qualified to write production code without much supervision, although they probably arent designing anything.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Cove.tool CEO Sandeep Ahuja recently won a Forbes 30 under 30 award The Forrest Four-Cast: January 30, 2020 Bringing together sustainability and efficient architectural practices, the team at Cove.tool is committed to fighting climate change one building at a time. Based in Atlanta (which has been named the best city in the U.S.

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

a New York-based sizzle reel production company specializing in promotional videos for PR and marketing professionals, and the Young Entrepreneur Council. From a technical standpoint, in addition to being a skilled programmer, the CTO should have a background in architecture and database design. Have an account?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

Were in a new wave of platform evolution. You dont need to invent a new architecture, and you dont need to even build your architecture up-front. Now you can build an app at true web scale without incurring any software costs, or any fixed hardware costs. 1 comments: flixsterwidgettest said. yeah, its awesome.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 28, 2009

A typical "new feature" release is, in my experience, about 80% changes to underlying APIs or architecture. You might have the interaction designer who designed it take a look to see if it really conforms to their design. Switching these customers directly to continuous deployment sounds harder than it really is.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

I’ve taken a major risk (both financially & mentally) and surrendered my 15 year career in architecture & design, but my heart and mind are in this project every waking moment. Essentially, being an entrepreneur allows me to be the designer of my career destiny and build the life I want. 15 – Freedom.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 9, 2016

Joining me in SiriusXM’s studio in New York were: Drew Silverstein , co-founder and CEO of the music technology venture Amper Music. Craig Kanarick ’s career has integrated digital technology, design and strategy. Drew Silverstein. Craig Kanarick , founder of the indie food site Mouth. Craig Kanarick. He founded Mouth in 2012.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 5, 2014

If we can assume that a searcher’s goal is to find the product that’s right for them, there are some essential principles that go into designing a search experience that will get them to the exact product they’re looking for with as little hassle as possible. Button design. Understanding how people view websites.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 14, 2010

The first week was spent just googling "web site design", "web site architecture" and "web server" to try to get a handle on all of the acronyms we were coming across (such as CSS, HTML PHP MYSQL, ROR, JS, AJAX).

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

Making UGC work requires good tools, open standards, and proper incentive design. Open APIs and data-oriented architecture (aka "web 2.0"). Personally, the framework Ive found most helpful is MTVs "create, share, validate" feedback loop. By focusing on giving creators all three, we were able to reap the rewards of their shared efforts.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Joining me in SiriusXM’s studio in New York were: Kathy Ku , executive director of Stanford University’s Office of Technology Licensing. She took a break from Stanford in 1990 and 1991, as VP of business development at Protein Design Labs , Inc. Orin Herskowitz , executive director of Columbia Technology Ventures.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 3, 2012

“How the hell do you start a design museum?” ” That was the question one of my students asked me three years ago when I quietly told him my plan to start a design museum in Boston with my friend and business partner, Derek Cascio. Design is a ubiquitous human activity. My reply to him: “I have no idea.”

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ConversionXL

JUNE 4, 2019

Once identified, adopt the cues of your audience into your brand architecture—symbolic elements such as your logo, brand colors, text content, advertisements, cultural symbols, website, and the physical environment of your brand. New York City—the “Big Apple” and a desirable city—is in the very first shot. Image Source).

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 30, 2010

Anna lives and works in Staten Island, New York. My mom gets credit for encouraging me; she is an artist with a degree in architecture. How did you become interested in design? I was actually studying fashion design when I first started doing freelance graphic work. Which of your designs are your favorites and why?

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 30, 2010

Anna lives and works in Staten Island, New York. My mom gets credit for encouraging me; she is an artist with a degree in architecture. How did you become interested in design? I was actually studying fashion design when I first started doing freelance graphic work. Which of your designs are your favorites and why?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

Both sides start to think of their point of view in moralistic terms: “those guys don’t see the economic value of fast action, they only care about their precious architecture diagrams&# or “those guys are sloppy and have no professional pride.&# Take a look and let me know what you think.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2021

AWS EdStart – is the AWS educational technology (EdTech) startup accelerator, designed to help entrepreneurs build the next generation of online learning, analytics, and campus management solutions on the AWS Cloud. Current AWS loft locations include: New York , San Francisco , Tokyo , Paris (Station F) , and Tel-Aviv (Floor28).

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

The blockchain and Arcadeum architecture we’re developing enables the future of gaming, where players benefit from truly owning their digital items, privacy, provable fairness, open economies, and the ability to earn real-world value through play. Please explain the token standard you recently helped design, ERC-1155. He has an Erd?s

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 20, 2023

He is co-leader of the McKinsey Digital Practice, a senior partner based in New York, and a member of McKinsey’s Shareholders Council, the firm’s board of directors. He's a co-leader of the McKinsey Digital Practice, a senior partner based in New York, and a member of McKinsey's Shareholders Council.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2009

It’s important to invest in good architecture so that your website will scale once customers arrive. If you make that investment, and then customers arrive, and the site stays up, most companies will reward the people who built the architecture and, thus, prevented the scaling problems. Why do they harbor that paranoia?

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 19, 2010

Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship , small business , leadership, social media , marketing, and more! Here are the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week about graphic design and web design.

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David Teten

MARCH 12, 2012

I’ve attached below my original, much more detailed blog post about the details of how we’ve designed our office to help people stay healthy and be as productive as possible. My colleagues at ff Venture Capital and I designed our office to make working a workout — a (partial) substitute for visiting a gym.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 12, 2007

Bessemer was also heavily represented with David Cowan , managing partner and co-founder of VeriSign ( see his post about the event ), Rob Stavis , BVP’s New York-based managing partner who led our investment in Skype, Byron Deeter , partner and founder of Trigo and our COO/managing partner Ed Colloton. on a scale of 1-4).

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Marketing, advertising, positioning — they’re all forms of persuasive writing, just like an op-ed in the New York Times. His response was unintentionally evasive: My background is in SaaS so I designed it with that customer persona in mind. But that’s how you build a hobby, not a company.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 13, 2009

Reinertsen weaves together ideas from lean manufacturing, maneuver warfare, queuing theory, and even the architecture of computer operating systems and the Internet. Product development deals in designs, which are fundamentally intangible. Team New Zealand designed the yacht that won the Americas Cup.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, January 4, 2009 Sharding for startups The most important aspect of a scalable web architecture is data partitioning. So far, this is just a summary of what all of us who have attempted to build web-scale architectures considers obvious. But startups rarely have either luxury. Easy to understand.

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David Teten

JUNE 6, 2011

The new FinTech Innovation Lab , an annual program run by the New York City Investment Fund and Accenture, had their launch event on Thursday night. Adrian Kunzle, Head of Firmwide Engineering & Architecture (CTO), JP Morgan Chase. We design them grounds-up optimized for our particular needs. 15 yrs at MS.

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