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Lessons Learned: Lean hiring tips

Startup Lessons Learned

Even if you have a referral bonus program, even if youve talked to that person about your company, and even if youve sent a recruiter to call her, I bet you could do more. Particularly the Continuous Deployment and Split testing posts. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. for Harvard Business Revie.

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Lessons Learned on Mashable today

Startup Lessons Learned

Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Learning is better than optimization (the local ma.

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

Was the fact that we were primarily using PHP essential, or could we add new tools written in other languages? Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down?

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Lessons Learned: The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time

Startup Lessons Learned

Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. They just ask "which hypothesis should I show?"

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Lessons Learned: Greasemonkey compiler

Startup Lessons Learned

I know some of those compilers are no longer available (some are hosted, others are not), so I took the liberty of putting up a copy of the PHP Greasemonkey Compiler. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Ive made some pretty minor modifications to it, mostly in the way of simple usability changes.

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Waves of technology platforms

Startup Lessons Learned

Meanwhile, we were building our app in PHP, using a generic DB driver and mysql, "for the time being." Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down?

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Fear is the mind-killer

Startup Lessons Learned

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.