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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

Startup Lessons Learned

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. Since then, PHP (as part of the LAMP stack ) has really been the dominant development platform, at least in the free software and startup worlds. Thats simply impossible on most platforms.

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Lessons Learned: Built to learn

Startup Lessons Learned

Thats the essence of so many of the lean startup techniques Ive evangelized: customer development , the Ideas/Code/Data feedback loop , and the adaptation of agile development to the startup experience. Creating a company-wide feedback loop that incorporates both customer development and agile development is a challenge.

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Lessons Learned: Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you?

Startup Lessons Learned

Chances also increase if there seems to be a Ruby bent to the content. This is a good sign for you! :) I subscribed because I was inspired by the O'Reilly video, and feel I want to go deeper into the customer development field. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Lessons Learned: What is a market? (a guide for hackers)

Startup Lessons Learned

Its as if every customer, whether they are an enterprise, a small business, or an individual consumer, is actually an employer who wants to get things done. So imagine youre applying for a programming job. If the company is looking for programmers, you convince them they absolutely need Ruby programmers. Remember Java?