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Startup Lessons Learned
JANUARY 12, 2009
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. But by the time I was building my first websites for commercial use , PHP had taken over. These days, successful programming is as much about processing data as creating algorithms.
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. Learning is better than optimization (the local ma.
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Startup Lessons Learned
DECEMBER 7, 2008
And we cant hire new engineers any faster, because you cant be interviewing and debugging and fixing all at the same time! Even with the highest standards imaginable, theres no way to hire just genius hackers. Use pair programming and collective code ownership. Just change it. From the outside, it looks a lot like chaos.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 10, 2008
I am convinced one of Joel Spolskys lasting contributions to the field of managing software teams will turn out to be the Joel Test , a checklist of 12 essential practices that you could use to rate the effectiveness of a software product development team. He wrote it in 2000, and as far as I know has never updated it.
Startup Lessons Learned
JUNE 22, 2009
The more work youve sunk into a product or vision, the harder it is to let it go. As the CTO/VP Engineering, I was the worst offender. Instead of these dead-ends, use the problem and solution team framework and then: pivot, dont jump. Thats why its so essential to have a co-equal problem team. 15comments: chrislunt said.
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. Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you? Learning is better than optimization (the local ma.
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