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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

(Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) He serves on the advisory board of a number of technology startups, and has worked as a consultant to a number of startups, companies, and venture capital firms.

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Revenue Development

K9 Ventures

SneakerLabs’ first product was a Java-based chat server and client. The hosted offering worked by having users place an “HTML-snippet” on their own website, which would retrieve the Java Applet from our servers and connect back to our servers. We were a tiny web-conferencing startup in Pittsburgh called iMeet.

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

Startups especially can benefit by using technical debt to experiment, invest in process, and increase their product development leverage. In a startup, we should take full advantage of our options, even if they feel dirty or riddled with technical debt. Startups are always moving, so invest in moving faster and better.

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Lessons Learned: The ABCDEF's of conducting a technical interview

Startup Lessons Learned

By far the most important thing you want to hire for in a startup is the ability to handle the unexpected. Those people also tend to go crazy in a startup. The "lone wolf" superstar is usually a disaster in a team context, and startups are all about teams. At the time, I was a die-heard Java zealot. Communication.

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The maker/manager transition phase

joel.is

Startups, life, learning and happiness. all articles • startup help • speaking. I hope these lessons learned can accelerate your startup success. The great piece is focused around two sets of distinct people in a startup: makers (typically coders) and managers (those with lots of meetings). Joel Gascoigne.

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Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?

www.quora.com

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Non-Technical Co-Founders Co-Founders Technical Co-founders Finding Co-Founders Startups & "How Important Are Ideas?" " Web Development Startups Solo Founders I am a creative guy with a startup idea.

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Quick Update

Guy Nirpaz

Guy Nirpaz Blog Thoughts from my startup journey Quick Update I’d like to use this post to provide a quick update of what I’m up to these days: I’ve left GigaSpaces to start my own business. It is a startup company, and we call it SaaSPulse (the name may change in the future).

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