Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

It became harder and harder to separate how the software is built from how the software is structured. If not, whos going to insist we switch to free and open source software? Was the fact that we were primarily using PHP essential, or could we add new tools written in other languages? Massive proprietary databases?

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AUGUST 31, 2010

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AUGUST 31, 2010

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

It felt like software that grownups were supposed to use, and we didnt qualify. Meanwhile, we were building our app in PHP, using a generic DB driver and mysql, "for the time being." It cost us a few hundred thousand dollars to get our app up and running, but none of that was dollars spent on software licenses or professional services.

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OCTOBER 16, 2010

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 2, 2009

My son is planning a software product that will take the mystery out of wikis and make the technology easier for consumers to use. Retention cohort analysis. Funnel averages over time. You can read the article to find out why. 3comments: Charles Crawford said. Thank you for this excellent article. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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JUNE 8, 2010

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OCTOBER 27, 2010

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Best of luck, Your Software." (OK, Most of this code was from a variety of open source PHP projects that were glued together with the shortest path to goal possible. I picked up on the 5 whys from Joel on Software earlier this year. Unfortunately, that is a terrible idea, and your change has been reverted. Good stuff.

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OCTOBER 27, 2010

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 28, 2009

Its an essential discipline of good software development, especially in startups. Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, January 28, 2009 Refactoring yourself out of business Let me start out by saying I am a big fan of refactoring , the ongoing process of changing code so that it performs the same behaviors but has more elegant structure.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 29, 2008

For software engineers, I think this absolutely has to be a programming problem solved on a whiteboard. For example, I wold often work the circle-drawing question with candidates who only had ever programmed in a web-based scripting language like PHP. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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JANUARY 4, 2009

Incremental and proportional software complexity. Most key-hashing schemes have some breaking point where, if you add just one more shard, you have to re-hash all of the data (imagine having to add a 27th database server to the alphabet-hashing scheme discussed above). Take a look and let me know what you think.

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