www.humbledmba.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Let me a share a few reasons why you dont need to be in stealth mode: 1.) Totally unique ideas generally dont make it. The likelihood that you build a product that missed the mark, is an almost certainty. Most companies miss the mark on the first product. dont want these other commentators to see my idea.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

I dont mean to suggest that our investors were nothing but a dragon us. Those that dont fail all seem to get boughtor go public. 3 ] However, most angel investors dont belong to these groups. With individual angels you dont have this protection,as we found to our dismay in our own startup.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

They dont have to worry about reporting, or assignment, or weighting, or, well, anything else. You need to make sure you dont get away from trying bold new things, using some combination of your vision and in-depth customer conversations to come up with the next idea to try. Hitchens, I dont see how that matters.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 30, 2009

Dont get distracted by trying to flip it. Although the product was superior to its competitors in many ways, it was missing key features that were critical for the kinds of customers who never got to participate in the companys focus groups (or were represented on its massive QA staff). Fail faster. Great post, thanks for sharing.

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JANUARY 12, 2009

And people dont learn Python because it will get them a job; they learn it because they genuinely like to program and arent satisfied with the languages they already know. Dont get me wrong, the right tool should be used for the right problem. I certainly dont. Almost every point in this article is why I dont use php anymore.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 16, 2009

Hes often felt that there was something missing. Or, rather, they apply it successfully, but things dont turn out so well. Customer Development - The Missing Piece! But you dont generally have to ask "what problem are we trying to solve?" Jim Murphy is a long-time agile practitioner in startups. Enter Jims post.

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dashes.com

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

Its a bum deal, so I dont do it. I can explain why, but if you saw what Brad Feld or Alexander Muse or Fred Wilson or Joel Spolsky or (my favorite take) Andrew Warner write about why they dont sign NDA s, you can skip the rest of this post. Several lessons: 1) Dont sign NDAs unless required for substantial full-time employment.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 22, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, June 22, 2009 Pivot, dont jump to a new vision In a lean startup , instead of being organized around traditional functional departments, we use a cross-functional problem team and solution team. Instead of these dead-ends, use the problem and solution team framework and then: pivot, dont jump.

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www.huffingtonpost.com

MAY 10, 2011

Programming Language - many top engineers I spoke with prefer python and dont like working in PHP. Engineers I spoke with regularly said, "If you dont ask me tough questions during the interview, I dont want to join" or "I want to be the dumbest person in the room". Do it yourself and dont delegate it.

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

There are some other serious reasons why we dont want to go public right now. We dont want that at this point. I dont see how letting other people outside that club know what we are doing gains us anything useful. We dont know what you are trying to do. (humbledmba.com) 279 points by jaf12duke 216 days ago | comments.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 3, 2009

They dont really create value. Now, I dont think even most dot-com era founders were bad people, I just think traditional startup methods make it too easy to become confused about whether were creating real progress or not. If youre not doing both, youre missing out. Now for the feedback. What if its both of you?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

Most components in a modern data center are completely stateless, meaning they just do batches of work that is handed to them, but dont store any data long-term. Since they dont store anything, failures are easy to handle too - just take it out of rotation. Stateful servers require more careful attention. Eric, I stop by regularly!

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www.joelonsoftware.com

JULY 10, 2012

Dont miss this chance of a lifetime. The bug database is obviously a great thing to have. Bug reports should be complete, accurate, and actionable. College students: my company has paid. summer internships in. We only have a few spaces and they always go fast, so apply today. -->. It has been a huge productivity.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

When they see a problem with the teams process, why dont they just fix it? And of course theres the secondary benefit of the fact that as people work on tasks they dont know anything about, they learn and become more capable. I dont want the next guy to go through what I went through though. Just change it. What can I do?

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

DECEMBER 9, 2010

One polling machine missing today. My rough, rough notes: (I will highlight the interesting parts and clean up at a later time). Debra Bowen, Secretary of State of California - voting machines were pulled bc they weren’t sure if viruses been loaded to a machine. Polling code must be open sourced , can’t have propriety code.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

And, I dont like to copy and paste. MyShape Article - Analyst Misses the Point Map of VC Investments Open Source Business Model Entreprenuer Network ► February (10) Southern California Tech Central Southern California Tech Central Loading. Certainly my LinkedIn profile provides a better public profile for me.

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css-tricks.com

JANUARY 2, 2013

But dont force it at the determent to both desktop and mobile experiences. Likely you are caching assets, so youll need to break that cache on assets that change and not break it on assets that dont. And if so, what do you miss most about jquery? I dont use version control. Can you handle all of that in a single site?

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www.starling-software.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

requirements Takes the given requirements and codes to spec Come up with questions regarding missed cases in the spec Understand complete picture and come up with entire areas that need to be speced Able to suggest better alternatives and flows to given requirements based on experience. Author of framework.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 3, 2009

If your goal is simply to scratch a clear itch or build something for a quick flip, you really dont need the MVP. Those that focus solely on their product miss the potential found in communicating an offering that includes the product and other elements that customers place value on and increase willingess to pay.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 24, 2009

Heres why I dont think engagement loops are that helpful: unlike viral loops, its not bad if its not self-sustaining. I just think there are less complex metrics, or set of metrics, that serve the same tactical purpose and dont suffer from this problem. What good are these metrics if they dont help guide product or business decisions?

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mashable.com

JANUARY 13, 2012

Unfortunately, the web is ripe with sites that offer social implementations that miss the mark. i dont like everyone on my facebook knowing where and what i have logging into, which is often a condition of allowing something to access your facebook. 33 New Digital Media Resources You May Have Missed. Flag this comment.

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blog.chrisomeara.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Assuming you cant or dont want to afford a full-time CTO, that seems like the perfect fit for a consultant and that seems to be where this idea of consultant CTO makes sense. I see that all the time, but I may be missing the point. I'm also intrigued by the comment - where have you seen a CTO do a great job?

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

DECEMBER 9, 2010

One polling machine missing today. My rough, rough notes: (I will highlight the interesting parts and clean up at a later time). Debra Bowen, Secretary of State of California – voting machines were pulled bc they weren’t sure if viruses been loaded to a machine. Polling code must be open sourced , can’t have propriety code.

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firstround.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

This is much easier than panicking over being unproductive and missing deadlines. The one cost engineers and product managers dont consider. The one cost engineers and product managers dont consider. [1:1] Working on whatever you were avoiding will start to look pretty good. Years ago, real estate success story and $1.4

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www.readwriteweb.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

And seconding Benedettos comments on huge type, Rundle said, "People arent blind; you dont need 72-pixel links in Helvetica Bold to attract attention." Developers dont usually think much about how element should sit on a screen together, so you see a lot of items crammed together or unevenly distributed.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Determined not to miss another opportunity, Graham has begun waiving fees and instead taking equity in clients he thinks have a good shot at success. But as Arizona Bay grew--it now has 40 employees and more than a dozen clients--Graham began to worry that he was missing out. The two companies had worked together closely for years.

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techblog.netflix.com

NOVEMBER 26, 2011

We could also run as many tests as we like at the same time, since they dont use the same resources. We dont think network contention from other AWS tenants was a significant factor in this test. When gossip tells the coordinator that the node has recovered, it delivers the missing data.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 9, 2009

Expo Upcoming Events If you missed the session at Web 2.0 I am very glad the presentation went well and Im sorry I missed it. Wish I hadnt missed this, but thanks for posting such a complete capture of the event. I dont think that this is a coincidence! Those are only symptoms. The Lean Startup at Web 2.0

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2008

If you know what youre getting into, you really dont need to solve those problems in advance. I notice that people sometimes forget that one of the most profitable virtual goods businesses in the world is Blizzards World of Warcraft, even though they dont allow customers to trade their hard-earned cash for virtual goods directly.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2008

They dont want to be idle. This really needs to be an iterative approach to be certain that nothing is being missed. Focus on speed of iteration rather than utilization of every function. Let people go idle, if they cant help the current iteration succeed.

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dontbesoanalytical.blogspot.com

MAY 13, 2012

Dont Be So Analytical!!! By using that documentation, the CTO can learn which element of the current environment he missed or mis-characterized, or what step in the chain of reasoning was flawed. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Enjoy this eclectic collection of essays, recipes, and fictions -. Saturday, February 16, 2008.

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konamoxt.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Note to tech managers and wannabe CTOs out there: Oh, dont worry guys my next post will be why you cant afford to not hire a CTO.] How have they gotten as far as they have without this “technical leadership&# you’re so convinced is missing? Mr. Startup CEO, I’m here to tell you, you can’t afford to hire a CTO.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 28, 2009

Customers dont care if you have good metrics, only if you have a good product. When none did, we worried that wed miss our numbers, pathetically small though they were. But lean startups cant afford to be satisfied with just that definition, because there are situations where working code is itself a form of waste.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

I dont knowyet what the new rules will be, but it looks like most of the changeswill be for the better. They dont just compete for startups; theyalso compete for investors. The VCs will say you need them, and the super-angelswill say you dont. Since angels generally dont take board seats, they dont have thisconstraint.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 2, 2009

It wasn’t uncommon for advisors and even potential investors to ask, when we would show our results, “are there some 000’s missing from this graph?&# I dont have much time. We’d always cringe as we admitted that, no, we really only had a few thousand customers and a few thousand dollars in monthly revenue.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

I dont think it will take very long for investors to be able to invest in whole markets and entrepreneurs to pitch a whole group of investors in a certain market. AngelList is operating very much like the NASDAQ stock exchange of the startup investment world, where deals and angel investors are public. Just look at AngelList?s

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www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

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