Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 7, 2009

I spent some time with his company before the conference and discussed ways to get started with continuous deployment , including my experience introducing it at IMVU. Moreover, approaching the problem from the direction that I had intuitively is a recipe for never reaching a point where continuous deployment is feasible.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Or, for something more substantive, how about the top five-most-read posts: Why PHP won Dont launch Five Whys Work in small batches The engineering managers lament But wait, theres more! Why Continuous Deployment? * Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Read the very first comment (thanks tfitz!)

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JANUARY 6, 2009

One of the other speakers is someone I know well: Seth Sternberg , founder of Meebo. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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JANUARY 1, 2009

As for a topic Im particularly interested in, Id be curious about partnerships: the type of formal or informal relationships one tech co has with another in terms of either cross marketing or integrating each others products. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Ha.

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JANUARY 11, 2009

And if your app is designed to drive traffic to some off-network site or product, the cost is usually prohibitive, because the traffic in your app doesnt convert any better than a traditional CPM or CPC-based ad anywhere else on the network. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2008

Its nearly impossible to get a good read on all six attributes in a single interview, so its important to design an interview process that will give you a good sampling of data to look at. For example, I wold often work the circle-drawing question with candidates who only had ever programmed in a web-based scripting language like PHP.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2008

When Eric writes, "By the time we started doing continuous integration, we had tens of thousands of lines of code, all not under test coverage." Most of this code was from a variety of open source PHP projects that were glued together with the shortest path to goal possible. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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JANUARY 4, 2009

Sharding for startups To support a single partitioning scheme is easy, especially if you design for it from the start. It also doesnt make sense to design your app for scalability from the start, since you may have to create many iterations before you find a version that requires any scalability at all. 21comments: Imran said.

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JANUARY 12, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 12, 2009 Why PHP won When I first learned to program on the web, Perl + CGI was the dominant platform. But by the time I was building my first websites for commercial use , PHP had taken over. Writing unit tests or mock objects in PHP is an exercise in constant frustration.

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JANUARY 30, 2009

Insist on high levels of usability, UI design, and polish. Without conscious process design, product development teams turn lines of code written into momentum in a certain direction. I know of at least five former employees that went on to become startup founders. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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JANUARY 28, 2009

Fortunately, my co-founders are also engineers and understand the need for some of the stuff I do. mooders: Note that refactoring is improving the internal design, not the performance or other aspects of the functionality. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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