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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

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. The current code is spaghetti, but the new code will be elegant.

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29 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

Today, my software company is profitable and staffed by exceptional individuals. By establishing a company dedicated to inventive and speedy product development, I am able to use cutting-edge technologies and consistently innovate faster than competitors. So, I started a sales and marketing company and haven't looked back since.

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25 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Prior to starting Ozmo both Ming and I worked in a design house creating new and better products. Throughout my five years of experience in product development, I realized that most of product launch failure could have been avoided by getting the product right earlier on, or understanding the limit of the maker.

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Lessons Learned: The hacker's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

When I want to know about some concurrency issues between services in his cluster, he doesnt blink an eye when I suggest we get the source code and take a look. Hes just as comfortable writing code as racking servers, debugging windows drivers, or devising new interview questions. He throws off volumes of code, and it works.

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

But there is more to technical debt than just the interest payments that come due. Startups especially can benefit by using technical debt to experiment, invest in process, and increase their product development leverage. In particular, try these three things: Invest in technical debts that may never come due.

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Startup Resources

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VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. s the new way to code, and quite easy to learn. You can write back end code in javascript, one language conquers all! Code Igniter. Code Hosting and Version Control. code spaces (svn). WorkingPoint.

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Lessons Learned: The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time

Startup Lessons Learned

And we were fortunate to have Steve Blank , the originator of customer development, on our board to keep us honest. Code To make split-testing pervasive, it has to be incredibly easy. Whenever you are developing a new feature, or modifying an existing feature, you already have a split-test situation. Great post Eric!