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Lessons Learned: The hacker's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

This is one of the bedrock practices of any lean startup , and so its a common piece of advice I give out. Without requiring a lot of meetings, it changes the perspective of the team (and its leadership) from fire-fighting to prevention. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May.

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Blood, sweat, and tears: How we got from 0 to 500K downloads on a budget

The Next Web

We launched a week before demo day and were able to generate a good media buzz (I’ll get more specific later) by piggybacking Pinterest and reach a go-to market that was highly relevant for us at the time. Italy, France and Germany are now in our top 15 download countries. A tip from our dev team: don’t hard-code strings in your app.

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