Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Take the example of a design team prepping mock-ups for their development team. Give the dev team your very first sketches and let them get started. And over time, the development team may be able to start anticipating your needs. That frees up even more development resources, and so on.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Investors use a consulting CTO for technical due diligence. Why Use a Consulting CTO A consulting CTO can help you complete a business plan by estimating costs and timelines for the company’s technology development and deployment. third party to vet or manage&# your development team. Try Google.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

We have been using LinkedIn for both sourcing recruits and reviewing backgrounds for recruits. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta.

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dontbesoanalytical.blogspot.com

MAY 13, 2012

The CTO should not manage developers. The head of development spends his or her time working to keep the development team on track against a set of product plans. Inside the development organization, this Director attends to staffing, training, workload and productivity metrics, budget, and scheduling.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

OCTOBER 14, 2010

I liked that Andy Jenkins and his development team are information marketers themselves, so they know and have experienced what problems info marketers face and have added really cool features specifically for some unique situations. Price could become an issue if you are a heavy user of data.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 26, 2020

…suddenly, nearly all technical jobs are remote-jobs, all dev-teams are distributed teams, and virtually all hiring is remote hiring. Cost savings companies experience when they eliminate expensive office rents and the payroll costs associated with the salaries required for people to live in major metro areas.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

The idea of leverage is simple: for every ounce of effort your product development team puts into your product, find ways to magnify that effort by getting many other people to invest along with you. It allowed me to assess the market demand for that offline product before I had the final product baked.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

There are three fundamental situations that change what your company needs to do: creating a new market (the original Palm), bringing a new product to an existing market (Handspring), and resegmenting an existing market (niche, like In-n-Out Burger; or low-cost, like Southwest Airlines). What is customer development?

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

Read on and let me help you decide… My Money Comes From My Email List The majority of people who will read this blog post will come from my email newsletter because I sent a message about this review. Chances are that is how you came to read this. What Other Things Can This Plugin Do? I’ve been told the function is in the works.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 13, 2009

But it goes beyond that, including techniques for improving the economics of product development. Reinertsen weaves together ideas from lean manufacturing, maneuver warfare, queuing theory, and even the architecture of computer operating systems and the Internet. That is what we started with on the Internet 30 years ago.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

I now believe that the "pick two" concept is fundamentally flawed, and that lean startups can achieve all three simultaneously: quickly bring high-quality software to market at low cost. Thats why we need continuous integration and test-driven development. First of all, its a myth that cutting corners saves time.

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trada.com

APRIL 7, 2010

They want to interact and in these days of public comments and no-introduction necessary internet bravado, they will simply send you an email. Fortunately these days there are very low cost ways to organize your communication. People are curious, especially about new things. Both cannot become efficient without iteration. Great post!

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

That is when no customers wanted to work with Internet startups because we as an industry had burned so many customers. I learned how to get press coverage when we were no longer “hot.&# I learned how to manage costs effectively. I learned how to do a pipeline review with sales people without getting bullshitted to.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

But when there is a task half-done, its actually slowing the team down. Imagine a team working from a forced-rank priority queue. Sometimes, a great hacker has the potential to grow into the CTO of a company, and in those cases all you need is an outside mentor who can work with them to develop those skills. Not necessarily.

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mashable.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Likewise, BlackBerry and HP/Palm are also using WebKit and Microsoft is going to release a mobile version of Internet Explorer 9 for Windows Phone 7. It also means that developers can feel free to use those technologies when creating their applications and not have to worry that the device itself won’t support a particular function.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Had I known it was going to take the internet by storm I probably would have been a bit more careful with my word choice (especially referring to.NET as a language, doh!). But just to clarify a couple points, 24-hours into the storm: Yes,NET developers are great at what they do. Happy Look Like an Idiot on the Internet Day.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Altor Networks was founded in 2007 by security and networking experts from Israel’s Internet security giant Check Point. Placement on the list was determined by a combination of the company’s G/SCORE assessment, stage and pace of growth, and business potential.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

So too would a team where one person’s more interested in enterprise startups while the other person’s passion lies in consumer experiences. In consumer internet, that usually means one front-end user-facing developer, one back-end server-side developer, and ultimately a business person (details will come in a later post).

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

They log in to translate the documents, one at a time, marking each finished when done, which sends the file back to the company for review.” Youll estimate time and cost better. Also important: Only go for providers who have great reviews from many past customers. Decline bids from providers without many great reviews.

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