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Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 4, 2008
Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). While I was still in high school, I became a Java "expert" during a time when there was no such thing.
Startup Lessons Learned
NOVEMBER 29, 2008
For a marketing job, for example, its reasonable to expect that a candidate will have done their homework and used your product (maybe even talked to your customers) before coming in. At the time, I was a die-heard Java zealot. Were there to serve customers direclty, as well as all of the other functions of the company.
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Startup Lessons Learned
JANUARY 12, 2009
The inimitable Paul Graham has an excellent essay called The Python Paradox in which he argues: that you could get smarter programmers to work on a Python project than you could to work on a Java project. I didnt mean by this that Java programmers are dumb. I meant that Python programmers are smart.
Startup Lessons Learned
JULY 29, 2009
Unfortunately, customers hated that initial product. Unfortunately, we made two critically flawed assumptions: that customers would primarily consume first-party assets that we shipped to them on CD and that they would tend to congregate in a relatively uniform way. How likely will customers ultimately use that feature?
Startup Lessons Learned
FEBRUARY 12, 2009
To wit: achieving product/market fit , getting customer validation , making something people want , things that matter , and of course the many excellent books on the topic, of which Ill mention just two of the best, Crossing the Chasm and The Innovators Dilemma. Is a market a set of paying customers? Remember Java? Tough sell.
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