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OCTOBER 23, 2010
Even less-obvious founders like the internet media personality and Digg founder Kevin Rose actually began in computer science. In the cases of all the founders I just mentioned the answer was yes. This is better than hiring for a number of reasons: Hiring a good developer is not cheap.
Startup Lessons Learned
NOVEMBER 8, 2008
Our goal in product development is to find the minimum feature set required to get early customers. In order to do this, we have our customer development team work hard to find a market, any market, for the product as currently specified. Instead, we do everything possible to validate the founders belief.
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Startup Lessons Learned
JUNE 8, 2009
You constantly assess the situation, looking for hazards and timing your movements carefully to get across safely. For example, I quickly learned that when I twittered about the event, more often than not I would make a sale. So the product development team was busy creating lots of split-tests for lots of hypotheses.
Startup Lessons Learned
NOVEMBER 17, 2008
Now its time to start to think seriously about how to find a repeatable and scalable sales process, how to position and market the product, and how to build a product development team that can turn an early product into a Whole Product. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?
Startup Lessons Learned
APRIL 26, 2009
The idea of leverage is simple: for every ounce of effort your product development team puts into your product, find ways to magnify that effort by getting many other people to invest along with you. That engine of creativity has led to a catalog of something like 2 million virtual goods authored by a hundred thousand developers.
Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 20, 2008
Excepting for cosmically co-incidental success stories, the fuzzy requirement stuff never congeals as a holistic engineering exercise. Of course, the sales folks had new features as their #1 priority. We ended up rethinking our entire product development process, top to bottom, start to finish. What a freaking mess.
Startup Lessons Learned
DECEMBER 7, 2008
Sometimes, a great hacker has the potential to grow into the CTO of a company, and in those cases all you need is an outside mentor who can work with them to develop those skills. At the end of the day, the product development team of a startup (large or small) is a service organization.
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