Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

In blue is how much time we spent in 2010 and in blue the time spent in 2014. was the dramatic shift between 2010 to 2014 to mobile content consumption. Check with the web analytics tool you use, every single tool allows you to do this, though each has a nuance you have to absorb. What was surprising, even to me (!),

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

So, you’re a small or medium-sized business, and you want to build a Facebook, mobile or web app. And when — if ever — do you need to hire your own full- or part-time, in-house dev to work on your website and applications? Do a web search to find platform-specific tools.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Derek Sivers about me blog books email list contact How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen 2010-06-19 Do you have an idea for a website, online business, or application, but need a programmer to turn that idea into reality? Also important: Only go for providers who have great reviews from many past customers. Thanks you!

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Open Source Business Models, speakers for Web 2.0 We have been using LinkedIn for both sourcing recruits and reviewing backgrounds for recruits. ► January (5) Los Angeles Web Developer Startup CTO or Developer When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Goo. event I did last fall.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2008

I met one recently that is working on a really innovative product, and the stories I heard from their development team made me want to cringe. The product manager was clearly struggling to get results from the rest of the team. Labels: product development 8comments: Vincent van Wylick said. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

Our goal in product development is to find the minimum feature set required to get early customers. In order to do this, we have our customer development team work hard to find a market, any market, for the product as currently specified. January 6, 2010 12:49 AM Anonymoussaid. What is customer development?

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

OCTOBER 7, 2010

It is the brainchild of Andy Jenkins , who with a development team have been putting the final touches on what looks like a potentially very good system. I haven’t had a chance to play with all these systems yet, so I haven’t give you an in-depth review. Nanacast – The Proven Performer?

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Now its time to start to think seriously about how to find a repeatable and scalable sales process, how to position and market the product, and how to build a product development team that can turn an early product into a Whole Product. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. What is customer development?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

You constantly assess the situation, looking for hazards and timing your movements carefully to get across safely. So the product development team was busy creating lots of split-tests for lots of hypotheses. Each day, the analytics team would share a report with them that had the details of how each test was doing.

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dontbesoanalytical.blogspot.com

MAY 13, 2012

The CTO should not manage developers. The head of development spends his or her time working to keep the development team on track against a set of product plans. Inside the development organization, this Director attends to staffing, training, workload and productivity metrics, budget, and scheduling.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 29, 2008

The technical interview is at the heart of these challenges when building a product development team, and so I thought it deserved an entire post on its own. Still, a startup product development team is a service organization. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

The idea of leverage is simple: for every ounce of effort your product development team puts into your product, find ways to magnify that effort by getting many other people to invest along with you. Open APIs and data-oriented architecture (aka "web 2.0"). The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

Sometimes, a great hacker has the potential to grow into the CTO of a company, and in those cases all you need is an outside mentor who can work with them to develop those skills. At the end of the day, the product development team of a startup (large or small) is a service organization. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Most of the other processs changes - mandatory design reviews (prelimninary, critical, etc), - documenting all our procedures, and so on - were to support those two factors. A project usually has an absolute duration and budget whereas the time and money dedicated to development within the project is where the tradeoffs are made.

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trada.com

APRIL 7, 2010

We do have some feature tricks up our sleeve and an incredible ability to expand our model into adjacent businesses (you’ll see a lot of this from us in 2010). This entry was written by Niel Robertson and posted on March 31, 2010 at 11:12 am and filed under Trada News. link] links for 2010-04-10 | Brian Magierski [.] Great post!

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Business model viability, in the majority of startups, will come down to balancing two variables: Cost to Acquire Customers (CAC) The ability to monetize those customers, or LTV (which stands for Lifetime Value of a Customer) Successful web businesses have long understood these metrics as they have such an easy way to measure them.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

You can measure this yourself: go to any list of startups, maybe look at YCombinator’s recent graduate class , or Scoble’s list of picks for 2010 , or Sequoia’s list of seed companies — or go find a list you like better. I was just looking at your web site. March 25, 2011 at 2:51 pm. March 25, 2011 at 2:58 pm.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

If so, shoot me an intro email at ryoma8ito@gmail.com A little about me: - Degree in computer engineering w/ management science option - Built several web 2.0 Honestly assess your own strengths and weaknesses thoroughly. Find people who complement your strengths and have the skills to supplement where you are weak.

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