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

Startup Lessons Learned

I am convinced one of Joel Spolskys lasting contributions to the field of managing software teams will turn out to be the Joel Test , a checklist of 12 essential practices that you could use to rate the effectiveness of a software product development team. He wrote it in 2000, and as far as I know has never updated it.

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Product Launches: 5 Unexpected Lessons from the Real World

ConversionXL

Successful product launch campaigns have a strong value proposition, multi-channel distribution, supporting content, and other trappings common to every marketing campaign. For web services, we write use cases, including code snippets, which describe ways you can imagine people using the product. Image source ). Write the User Manual.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

Both Sides of the Table

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. Another called Parker Harris, the co-founder and CTO. We have also been very busy with our next release, which is due out by December 11th (but I’ll save that for a different post). Consumer approach to software for business users. Folksonomy. Free product.

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Fog Creek Compensation

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Joel on Software Fog Creek Compensation by Joel Spolsky Wednesday, August 30, 2000 At Fog Creek Software, the way we make sure that people are paid fairly and rewarded for excellent work is based on a professional ladder. So all Fog Creek software engineers are ranked at one of several different levels, level 8 through level 15.

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Beyond Lead Gen: How To Optimize B2B Sales Enablement

ConversionXL

And sales enablement software helps arm sales teams with the information they need to close sales. Examples: Clearslide , Salespatron (I’m a co-founder) and Brainshark. A 2015 global study of 2000 B2B buyers and sellers by Accenture shows that B2B buyers have high expectations for engagement. Image Source.

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Software Inventory

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Joel on Software. Software Inventory. The software production process has several major “inventory” accumulation points, itself. How is software like a factory?” An implementation process (writing code). A deployment process (sending code to customers, putting it on web server, etc). (PS by Joel Spolsky.

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Growing Your Audience (And Your Revenue) With A Book

Duct Tape Marketing

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! We were founded by a gentleman named Bob Young, who was the original co-founder of Red Hat, which is a massive software company. And again, for a lot of people, that's what they were concerned with was distribution. Matt Briel (04:35): Yeah, that's right.