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Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 22, 2008
is an elegant way to model any service-oriented business: Acquisition Activation Retention Referral Revenue We used a very similar scheme at IMVU, although we werent lucky enough to have started with this framework, and so had to derive a lot of it ourselves via trial and error. Seth Godin: How often should you publish?
Startup Lessons Learned
JANUARY 12, 2009
When we started IMVU in 2004, we could rely on a staggering amount of open source software that jumpstarted our initial product offering. At IMVU, when wed hire a new engineer, we could get them to ship code to production on their first day, even if they had never programmed in PHP before. As always, Paul is right.
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Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 10, 2008
Joel is focused on the fact that in many environments, programmers are considered "just the hired help" akin to manual labor, and not treated properly. I wanted to say that as a student I was working for a start-up company in town using the Rails framework. Do programmers have quiet working conditions? Stumbled across this.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 22, 2008
It also has the nice side-effect of driving down the batch size of work, but thats for another post) This framework for making progress evident applies to more than just scheduling, of course. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Seth Godin: How often should you publish?
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It is also true that open source and the commoditization of many technologies has put much more emphasis on experience. Smart teams understand quickly that all three skills are essential - if you can't recognize the need, you won't be able to hire for it or value it. he also helps out with cranking out the code).
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