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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

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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. Writing unit tests or mock objects in PHP is an exercise in constant frustration.

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Amazon Web Services. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Web Tools: HereĆ¢??s We have an iOS SDK as well, for web-web, mobile-mobile, web-mobile video chat and video messaging. We have an iOS SDK as well, for web-web, mobile-mobile, web-mobile video chat and video messaging.

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Lessons Learned: Achieving a failure

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I myself didnt understand it until I had the opportunity to view that failure through the lens of the customer development theory. I had a big advantage, because Steve Blank , the father of customer development, got to see the failure up close and personal too as an investor and board member. Expo SF (May. .

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

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I had the opportunity to pioneer this approach to funnel analysis at IMVU, where it became a core part of our customer development process. To promote this metrics discipline, we would present the full funnel to our board (and advisers) at the end of every development cycle. They just ask "which hypothesis should I show?"

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

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Was the fact that we were primarily using PHP essential, or could we add new tools written in other languages? Was it an important or irrelevant fact that most of our web code was procedural and not object-oriented? The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Expo SF (May.

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Lessons Learned on Mashable today

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My startup business (web development) is being shunned by virtually every other potential investor I approached thus far. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. January 2, 2009 4:48 PM Chris Desouza said.