Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 27, 2009

I think a great example of freemium is 37signals' Haystack - they offer free listings to all designers, and premium listings that are larger, and have more pictures for $99 a month - thus increasing exposure for the paying customers. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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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? * Validated learning about customers * 8.0 Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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JANUARY 1, 2009

Id love to hear more on customer development, in particular, and on what we can do to combat the "90%" (nontechnical) causes of startup failure. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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JANUARY 6, 2009

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ▼ 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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JANUARY 11, 2009

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ▼ 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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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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Startup Lessons Learned

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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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. This is why agility is such a prized quality in product development. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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JANUARY 28, 2009

mooders: Note that refactoring is improving the internal design, not the performance or other aspects of the functionality. The goal of refactoring is to make it easier to do future development. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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