Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. This engineering manager is a smart guy, and very experienced.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Learning the construction process from beginning to end, even if you aren’t in control of every step, can be invaluable when you run your own architecture firm. While as an architectural firm, you might not be as involved in the process as an actual construction manager, knowing these things can help your business immensely.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. Its a nice complement on the product engineering side to his customer development methodology.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The story starts with a company you probably never heard of – Engineering Research Associates. In January 1946, they founded Engineering Research Associates (ERA). Norris became the VP of Engineering, Engstrom the VP of Research, and Meader VP of Manufacturing. Parker agreed to invest. The company hit the ground running.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 29, 2018

Do you have what it take to actually code the website architecture? You can even become an expert in search engine optimization (SEO) content. Well, there’s a lot to consider when navigating website development. Perhaps you’re more interested in the aesthetics of powerful website design.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

If we’re a B2B company selling into brick-and-mortar retail environments, and we’re looking to find an audience of retail executives, we’ll start with a simple Google search. An audience search with the parameters “Frequently uses the hashtag” and “#retailtech” pulls up many frequently listened-to podcasts. Image source.

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View from Seed

APRIL 21, 2016

How do you build your engineering/dev team from the ground up? What kind of engineers do you need? What kind of engineers do you need? Now consider a few high-level categories of engineers: Front-End. The best engineers I’ve worked with cross into multiple categories. So this further complicates your search.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2012

MIT OpenCourseWare : Find more than a hundred online course materials for electrical engineering and computer science in MIT’s OpenCourseWare collection. Princeton : Through Princeton University’s Coursera site, you can find courses on algorithms, computer architecture, and networks.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Google, at the time, was overhauling the back end of their search engine. They built their search engine 20 years ago. Bigger jets, bigger engines, bigger ships, as opposed to the small changes that can make an enormous difference. When I sat down with Admiral Selby , we talked about Google. How could the U.S.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 26, 2011

A strong web design can help a restaurant to more effectively market itself, can help convert visitors who find the restaurant by searching, for example, on Yelp, shopping for a deal through Groupon, or searching on Google or Bing. And it doesn’t help you much in search engine optimization. Consider Performance.

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Up and Running

APRIL 17, 2018

In 2016, mobile search officially overcame desktop search with nearly 60 percent of all searches coming from mobile devices. Plus, Google is now penalizing websites that aren’t optimized for mobile, which means your website may not pop up in search results, making it hard to attract more website traffic.

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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. They will draw from their expert perspective and are capable of applying a broader spectrum of experience across many technologies as they help you plan your engineering process and culture.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

So I initially gravitated to the CTO title, and not VP of Engineering. If youre trying to design an architecture to maximize agility, how can that work if some people are working in TDD and others not? But since I spent a long time in a hybrid CTO/VP Engineering role, I still have this nagging question. They might do anything !

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ConversionXL

JULY 22, 2021

The technical elements of your website’s SEO are crucial to search performance. This makes website architecture an important technical SEO factor. As well as prioritizing key pages in your site architecture, an audit helps convince Google of a page’s importance by: . In other words, where the page sits on your site.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 23, 2018

They do not realize that achieving their SEO goals is impossible without the right website architecture. It is because this is how search engines can identify them. Finally, most people focus on the SEO aspect of their online business. Therefore, website design is often overlooked.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Yes, that is how important search engine optimization (SEO) has become in online marketing. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) in Brief. You might have basics on SEO but why is your website not ranking on the first page of search engine result pages (SERPs)? You have come across it. What SEO is not.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 27, 2010

Search engines prefer websites that are properly organized. You probably already know that search engines index sites based on the quality of content (and links). The more content on your site, the more attractive your site becomes for search engines (more about search engine optimization in tip 9 below).

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 27, 2010

Search engines prefer websites that are properly organized. You probably already know that search engines index sites based on the quality of content (and links). The more content on your site, the more attractive your site becomes for search engines (more about search engine optimization in tip 9 below).

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 17, 2010

I was an engineer on the engineering team. For one, the engineers consider the artists stupid; the artists consider the engineers arrogant. The engineering team would then build that feature, mimicking the UI as close as they could using the current primitives supported by the system. The meeting was tense.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 17, 2014

Considering the breadth of online platforms and opportunity (search, social media, video, content marketing, etc), it’s difficult for advertisers to keep up (and keep track) with digital progress. Internal linking helps improve search engine optimization as well as user experience. Link Architecture. Personalization.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 21, 2020

Renewable energy and architecture. Engineering. With openings for planners, consultants, managers and engineers, offshore work in the renewable energy sector is challenging and exciting and offers a range of roles including: Quantity surveyor. Solar energy. Renewable energy and agriculture. Find the right role. Project manager.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 3, 2020

Importantly, your site structure also has search engine optimisation (SEO) benefits. As we have also intimated, your site architecture has myriad SEO benefits. Be optimised for both search engines and UX, without considerations for one being to the detriment of the other.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 23, 2016

ARM, a competitor, not only had a better, much lower power processor, but a better business model – they licensed their architecture to other companies that designed their own products. Today that’s built on the premise that an x86 architecture is the one best suited for big data. Lessons Learned.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

The human tendency to moralize about debt affects engineers, too. For example, at a previous virtual world company , we spent years developing an architecture to cope with millions of simultaneous users. However, we’ve often had to put up with unreliable service, caused by their inflexible internal architecture.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

Bizosys Technologies, a Bangalore, India based software engineering company was founded in 2009. The first is HSearch, a NoSQL technology based search engine for big data that aims to break the barrier of scale of growing information and accessing it across information silos. Toward that end, they have created two products.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 12, 2013

A company that can employ thousands of engineers and designers, acquire companies, and support a creative working environment. An engineer. This person needs to be incredibly skilled in engineering, and should ideally be an experienced CTO. Try to be the next Steve Jobs, the next Elon Musk, the next Bill Gates.

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ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

JULY 11, 2012

The implementation and architecture can also suffer if the team under or over invests engineering time, implementation of standards, or testing discipline in the wrong areas. If there is significant R&D effort, then the enhancement probably falls out of scope for simple architecture enhancements or prototyping. Older Post.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2020

And these same principles apply nowadays, although they’re compounded by the challenges of the digital sphere, where you could be competing with companies of all sizes anywhere on Earth and you’ll have to get to grips with concepts like Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) and website User Experience (UX) to connect with and convert customers.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Thanks to John’s generous promotion of my content over the years, many of you probably know I’ve spent most of my career in search engine optimization. In 2012, he sold his former company GetListed.org to Moz, helping over 3 million businesses get better visibility in the local search engines. Predictable and Concrete.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

This is often a shock to managers and engineers, who tend to assume that most people can eventually do everything the product or website offers.” (via Fancier goals can include different sub-goals for novice, intermediate or advanced users (as defined by the usability engineer) or detailed goals for errors or mistakes.

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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. Waves of technology platforms The lean startup Customer Development Engineering Greasemonkey compiler Great open source scalability tools from Danga Ideas.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2012

Tossing their agile development process and at times their entire business model in the air, the company would go into fire-drill mode and engineering would start working on whatever his latest insight was. Some of the engineers figuring if the founder was declaring they were toast in 90 days were updating their resumes.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Avoid delay by using a consulting CTO on a short-term basis while you are searching for a permanent technology partner. A consulting CTO can help you find and qualify a permanent technology partner, a lead developer, a user experience expert or interaction designer, a graphic designer, or a VP of engineering. Try Google.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 20, 2010

I recently did a webinar for the Search Engine Strategies conference (I am doing the opening conference keynote at SES London and SES New York ) and my Market Motive co-faculty member Greg Jarboe sent me this KPI via email: "Your webcast was a big success. Create a segment for Organic Search traffic. Do your happy dance!

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

After working in architecture, furniture and design for 15 years, I came up with an idea that lead me into the NYC World of Tech and am now solving missed connections. 11 – US Army Classified as a Computer Engineer. I worked for the US Army as a civilian employee classified as a computer engineer. Image Credit: Lori Cheek.

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ConversionXL

JULY 16, 2021

But search engine optimization strategies will only take you so far. Technical SEO is the process of making sure your website meets the technical requirements of search engines in order to improve organic rankings. The key elements of technical SEO include: Crawling Indexing Rendering Site architecture.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2018

As a Jewish person I know something about this scapegoating because it is the history of my people for 2,000+ years including the Pogroms in Eastern Europe that cause my family to escape using fake passports and wind up in South America (Colombia) in search of a better life. He looked at Architectural Digest, Interior Design, Vogue, etc.

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