Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

But there is more to technical debt than just the interest payments that come due. Startups especially can benefit by using technical debt to experiment, invest in process, and increase their product development leverage. In particular, try these three things: Invest in technical debts that may never come due.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Thanks to Alex Contes, Review Grower ! #3- 10- Professional Organizations Photo Credit: Michael Dodd As a founder of an event management software startup, I have found networking in groups such as ILEA, MPI, and NACE crucial in building my personal and professional network in the events industry. Thanks to Emir Bacic, Pricelisto ! #10-

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

signup, upgrade, trial pricing Zuora – online subscription management FeeFighters – find the cheapest credit card processors HealPay – Collections made easy Customer Support Tender – support, knowledgebase tool for your site GetSatisfaction - conversations between companies / customers.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. s the new way to code, and quite easy to learn. You can write back end code in javascript, one language conquers all! Code Igniter. Code Hosting and Version Control. code spaces (svn). WorkingPoint.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Due to an interaction effect between your hardware, solar flares, and quantum flux, this virus will crash your computer and erase your hard drive sometime soon. In the past, we invested in brilliant architecture, code reuse, refactoring, modular design, etc. I have detected a secret virus in your CPU. The curse of prevention Beware!

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betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

I firmly believe that in this age where the product development life-cycle is so short and user feedback comes so quickly, you will know within a year whether you are focusing on a worthwhile one thing. To this day, not a single pixel gets on our website or apps without my input, review, and approval. It’s that important.

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andrewchenblog.com

MARCH 10, 2010

After all, there are many methods of doing qualitative user research without writing a single line of code. In fact, in many ways talking to your customer and understanding them great detail is often much more powerful before you even go through the product development process.

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