Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

As a consumer internet company with millions of customers, it may seem to have little relevancy for an enterprise software company with only a handful of potential customers, or a computer security company whose customers demand a rigorous audit before accepting a new release. Who will ultimately bear the cost of their mistakes?

Continuous Deployment 167

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

Because we African-Americans have our own urban communities, we are smart people and there is real demand for innovation, our people can quickly move forward with blockchain and go straight to market. It cost billions, cost years and distract from the core mission trying to create your own code ecosystem.

Technical Review 54

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 17, 2013

A sustainable platform or marketplace is one where the value of being in the network clearly outshines the transactional costs charged for being in the network. At the same time, there were several larger players in the market such as Freelancer and Rent-a-coder. However, the truth is they made this work for a very long time.

Europe 101

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

" => I have not bothered to put up a landing page, survey to test customer demand, or done any customer development whatsoever. When Zuckerberg started Thefacebook.com he was a PHP coder (translation: not a real developer). "I am a creative guy with a startup idea." However, I do spend a lot of time daydreaming.

Developer 42

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Outsourcing is something a big company, with a known customer / problem (that has revenue & traction) does to save cost. I have a proposal written up including full cost and revenue projections. have you heard of any luck using outsourced coders from India … or where do you suggest ? They care about real product.

Technical Review 44

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Also, for the full time coder, you may violate your employee contract especially in the area of non-competes or just plain piss off your boss when he finds out how much time you have been putting into a side project when deadlines were looming. The project was so low cost they did not even want to bother with it.

Technical Review 84

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

But my coders will beat up your coders, any day of the week. No offense, but I honestly think you have no idea what you’re talking about, and your irrational language biases are probably making you lose some really good coders. ” So, essentially you want redneck coders that will kill it and grill it.

Java 107

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www.quora.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

1 vote by Elad Gil It's a risk/reward, supply/demand power equilibrium. The risk to the entrepreneur is that he loses several tens of millions of dollars in opportunity cost. Update Link to Questions, Topics and People Add Find Questions, Topics or People Comment Joshua Seims , ?_? I'm always su. This answer.

Equity 40

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

And what gets people upset is that there are different quantities of those components available in the economic marketplace, and the law of supply and demand is pretty good about consequently assigning a value to them. Engineer Irwin Cantor (the coder)? It is into this one bucket that ALL of the ‘traditional’ pieces fall. Bottom line?

Coder 147

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Youll estimate time and cost better. But what I think was hard, and it was something he couldnt consider was that it would be harder to find a *maintaining* programmer, and how much it would cost to run the software, because of technical details he didnt understand. Thinking of your project in milestones makes all the difference.

CTO Hire 84

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

You can argue that the DNA created by Microsoft's over emphasis on distribution (Steve) and development (Bill), has ultimately cost it $50bn or more in lost revenue, market share and market capitalization. I don't think it's enough to have a business guy and a coder. They are many more examples.

Technical Review 51

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

This single decision wound up costing the company significant revenue and over the course of several months sent its customer growth into decline. In the end, we managed to repair the damage, but only after losing a lot of time and at significant opportunity cost. We were totally unprepared for the magnitude of what happened.

Community 158

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 29, 2020

In the time since our conversation, data and science have shown again and again that wearing masks is an incredibly effective, low-cost and simple way to prevent viral spread. Jeremy Howard : So people who demand gold standard evidence to do anything, like masks for example. How much is that going to cost if you do?

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