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How To Work Better with Your Co-Founder

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While open-source tools, readily available APIs, social platforms and cloud hosting providers have made it easier in many ways, being a Web entrepreneur is still not for the faint of heart. Almost every software engineer I've ever worked with is irrational in how fast they believe they can build software.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. One that is powered by three drivers, each of which is a part of a major trend: The use of platforms enabled by open source and free software. What are the characteristics of a lean startup?

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Startup Resources

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VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. Videos/presentations. High Quality, and open sourced! Firebase : Are all your developers front-end engineers? Google Custom Search Engine. Mantis (Open source). Seed Startups.

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Startup Tools

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interactions, widgets, effects Django – high-level Python framework Cappuccino – open source framework for app development Kodingen – cloud development environment, code editor, hosting service, collaboration platform.

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Lessons Learned: A new version of the Joel Test (draft)

Startup Lessons Learned

Daily builds are giving way to true continuous integration, in which every checkin to the source control system is automatically run against the full battery of automated tests. At IMVU , our engineering team accumulated thousands upon thousands of tests, and we had a build cluster (using BuildBot ) that ran them. Do you have a spec?

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You don't need as many tools as you think

Startup Lessons Learned

Heres something I can relate to: We used assembla for subversion, scrums, milestones, wikis, and for general organizational purposes. Scrum reports would come in once a month, nobody was actually responsible for anything. We had all the tools in place but we didn’t actually practice agile development. 1 comments: Josh Moore said.

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

The human tendency to moralize about debt affects engineers, too. Leverage product development with open source and third parties. For example, early on at IMVU, we incorporated in tons of open source projects. Real life seldom presents such comparable choices. Instead, we balance lots of unknowns.