Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. This engineering manager is a smart guy, and very experienced.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 12, 2017

From marketing to product development, to new software tools and communications, the list is almost endless as to the digital transformations taking place. Everypixel: Stock image search engine. Everypixel is an image search engine for quality stock images. PSL: Agile Software Development for Efficient Business.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 31, 2020

Fera can even tailor elements like reviews to feature past buyers whose profiles align with those of current shoppers. As a simple example, after you enter your zip code, the city and state auto-populate. This is such a simple friction reducer, yet most ecommerce merchants don’t have their checkout set up to ask for the zip code first.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Without it, the page will take longer to load, which can damage the user experience and, ultimately, search engine rankings. A slow site means a poor user experience, and search engines will respond accordingly. Work with your team to uninstall resource intensive plugins that aren’t often being used and remove unnecessary scripts.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 3, 2011

Many of the founders of these companies are surprised to learn that I'm willing to review what they are doing (maybe an hour) and get on the phone for an hour with them and provide free advice. Maybe you are wondering if you have a Weak Development Team ? Do you have a Startup Founder Developer Gap ?

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 3, 2011

Many of the founders of these companies are surprised to learn that I'm willing to review what they are doing (maybe an hour) and get on the phone for an hour with them and provide free advice. Maybe you are wondering if you have a Weak Development Team ? Do you have a Startup Founder Developer Gap ?

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ConversionXL

APRIL 1, 2019

The advanced technical knowledge of university professors in engineering and science, for example, makes it harder for them to teach first-year students effectively. Say you work at a SaaS company selling AI software. It can also come up in face-to-face meetings—sales pitches, conferences talks, account reviews, etc.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, February 20, 2009 Work in small batches Software should be designed, written, and deployed in small batches. Its had tremendous impact in many areas: continuous deployment , just-in-time scalability , and even search engine marketing , to name a few. For software, the easiest batch to see is code.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 16, 2018

The successful sales teams of the future will lean on these to win more deals: Personalized mobile apps. Plenty of sales fall through due to issues beyond the salesperson’s control, and those issues are often a result of the company’s product or service. Node, an AI-powered discovery engine , is going all-in on sales enablement.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 7, 2021

The growth of parcel services has been boosted due to – Free trade agreements (FTAs) signed between various countries and the development of special economic zones (SEZ) in different economies. The hourly rate levied by the developers based on their location and market conditions. Final Thoughts.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2020

You still need to: Create quality content on relevant topics that users search for; Make sure search engines can access it; Establish your site as an authority. Enterprise sites are typically bigger, which adds emphasis on technical accessibility, but the basics remain: Can search engines efficiently access your content?

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? Did they really need a Startup CTO or Developer or both? Did they have a Weak Development Team ? In my experience, it’s naive to think you can just “get developers to build the product” although it does sometimes work. Was it a case of needing Homework?

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Investors use a consulting CTO for technical due diligence. A consulting CTO is an expert on the current state of the technology and can suggest the most appropriate development platform for your business. He can help you determine whether to outsource development (locally or overseas) or build an inhouse team.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

In a few cases, they are clearly smart people in a bad situation, and Ive written about their pain in The product managers lament and The engineering managers lament. When I want to know about some concurrency issues between services in his cluster, he doesnt blink an eye when I suggest we get the source code and take a look.

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SVPG

JUNE 25, 2013

That said, many teams are still learning the techniques and methods of strong teams, and in this article we wanted to highlight what to look for in a strong product team and how to help the team develop. Team Staffing: Is there a strong product manager/owner? How often is the team using live-data prototypes?

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2008

I met one recently that is working on a really innovative product, and the stories I heard from their development team made me want to cringe. The product manager was clearly struggling to get results from the rest of the team. Then the designs are handed to a team of programmers with various specialties.

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View from Seed

MARCH 19, 2015

Engineers and even marketers proudly claim to be “full stack.” Starting in 2009, Savoia began using an approach as an engineering director at Google that helped the tech giant know whether it was about to build the right product for the market … or a product that would flop. Another success.

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SVPG

FEBRUARY 20, 2011

We have two primary techniques for failing fast: - The first is to create a user prototype (disposable software that is meant to simulate what the real software would look like and behave like) and then test that prototype on real users and customers (mostly face-to-face with users from the target market). -

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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.” Also important: Only go for providers who have great reviews from many past customers. Decline bids from providers without many great reviews. The translator rejects or approves.

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

With development teams often based around the world, being the center of communication and progress can either lead to a tremendously successful strategy or a bottleneck that can slow down an entire company. Organization and Execution Your new CTO should be able to handle your development team so that projects run along smoothly.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Examples might be a recommendation engine, search engine, matching engine or something with a complex interface. Even with these, you will have paper-tested your MVP, but the reality is that customers will not be able to assess the value to them until they actually use it. Review the code being built.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Vlad Malik from www.goodui.org gave a review of A/B Tasty: Vlad Malik : “The things I like about ABTasty I like a lot. You can add a custom goal right in the code, and it automatically shows up on the report – you don’t need to create the goal first. The dashboard is just a plain list of tests on a white background.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

The right sort of person is so passionate about coding, they can’t be stopped from doing it. But every day spent in that kitchen is a day NOT spent in a real kitchen, learning how to cook real food, and write real code. Full discloure, I am a former PHP, Perl, ColdFusion, ActionScript, VB.NET, ASP.NET and C# developer.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

We have been using LinkedIn for both sourcing recruits and reviewing backgrounds for recruits. Dr. Karrer was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University, attended the University of Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S. in Computer Science.

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Up and Running

MAY 6, 2015

The first article that we wanted to talk about is one written by the founder of Palo Alto Software, Tim Berry. Your accounting software, you’re entering those numbers. The search engines have done a wonderful job of really serving that up. We get to read articles on Bplans all day and pretty much comment on them.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 7, 2007

In the past I have recommended Web Link Validator from REL Software as something we have had a positive experience with. It can do a lot more than check missing tags, see the website for all the features, so all around a good piece of software to have. Another cool benefit is that the async code collects more data, more accurately.

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mashable.com

MARCH 7, 2011

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. Earlier this month, leading iOS developer ScrollMotion released its first simultaneous e-book for the iPad and Chrome Web Store.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

Personally I use Visual Web-Developer from Microsoft - it’s free and powerful. However, it is also very complicated to use, as it’s a full web-development environment. If you don’t know how to code in C# then it is probably easier and faster to use Dreamweaver , Frontpage or the freeware KompoZer.

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venturehacks.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

What you don’t know Business founders who don’t code use bad proxies for picking technical co-founders (&# 10 years with Java!&# ). Engineer heavy startups are common now, so doubling or tripling your development team at the outset is incredible. However, neither one of us has a coding background.

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thenetsetter.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

If you read a lot of these though you start wondering if the only route into the world of web startups is to be a developer or computer engineer of some kind. For Non-Trival Tasks It’s Hard to Hire Good Developers The obvious way past this hurdle would be to hire the skills you are missing.

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Venture Chronicles

MAY 16, 2012

users and only 29m reviews doesn’t suggest a high degree of interaction. It’s not just SAP, all business software providers are challenged by packaging/pricing within the context of a business model. would you really just discover you don’t have enough people in Europe and then move people from the U.S.

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 1, 2006

From the most uber perspective User Research is the science of observing and monitoring how we interact with everyday things such as websites or software or hardware, and then drawing conclusions about how to improve those things. Benefits of lab usability testing. Things to watch out for. What is lab usability testing?

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Think about your own behavior: if you are like me, you hate having to deal with sales people, and greatly prefer to do your own research starting with search engines, and leveraging free trials, on-line videos, blogs, reviews, and your social network. Read Get Found using Inbound Marketing to find out more.)

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Some of you out there may find this Google Analytics feature overview to be mostly review. From the time you set up your account and put your tracking code on your site, Google Analytics, starts to capture and display a lot of data. Events can be implemented without coding through Google Tag Manager. That’s awesome!

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

If you are starting new, or going to touch the code on your website for any reason, please, in the name of Thor, Superman and Dilbert, use a tag management solution. The drilldowns are Keyword, Source (engine) and Mobile Device Branding. The thing you might like the most is the no code instrumentation. You have many choices.

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Transformify

JULY 14, 2022

Igor Balamut is providing services as a Senior Symfony PHP Engineer at Transformify, a Workforce & Vendor Management System. When you choose some software provider, services or tools to buy, you want to know what is “under the hood”, is it a proven technology, is it a sustainable, scalable and modern software solution?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. But I loved reading them and so did my team. Defensibility in Software. His Tenure at Microsoft.

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