Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile : "Google is an exceptionally disciplined company, from a software-engineering perspective. They work hard to keep their house in order at all times, and there are strict rules and guidelines in place that prevent engineers and teams from doing things their own way. Focus on launching.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 13, 2017

If this is the first article you’ve read on growth marketing, you may be disillusioned. This focus usually reflects the philosophy of the founders and early team members, and therefore it’s not usually something you can change. Software Engineer. ” Software Engineers. Product Manager. Data Analyst.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

The same issues arose time and again: big company management styles versus entrepreneurs wanting to shoot from the hip, founders versus professional managers, engineering versus marketing, marketing versus sales, missed schedule issues, sales missing the plan, running out of money, raising new money. Would you mind sharing them?

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www.joelonsoftware.com

MARCH 24, 2010

Fog Creek explicitly recognizes that many good software engineers have no desire whatsoever to do "management" or to take on a formal personnel management role. One of the purposes of the Fog Creek Professional Ladder is to create a career path with promotions for engineers who simply do not want to do management stuff at all.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 24, 2011

This is a guest article by Karl Falconer. Karl is a software engineer with more than 10 years of experience who specializes in agile web development and web services integrations. He authors a software development blog at [link]. Founder, MicroMaximus. What should I do next to keep my edge?”. The Product.

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mashable.com

MAY 28, 2010

View more jobs » roselinke forget the rules, then read this: [link] / CathyWebSavvyPR Great article and tips. 1) Be sure to check your proposed business name in various search engines - to check on possible competition - who comes up 1st when you type in the name, are they in the same industry etc. He invented the name Kodak.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, August 8, 2009 Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and whats changed since then) My recent article on technical debt and its positive uses generated a fair bit of controversy. 1] For more on SBCE, see this MIT Sloan Management Review article. But what about Commodity?

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Scalable Startup

MAY 29, 2012

to New York; Second, I caught the recent live stream of the Disrupt NYC Hackathon; Third, A New York Times article about how NYC’s “allure” is increasing. Here are some of the factors: (1) Amazing Engineering Skills – Let’s just start with the big one. I’ve done it before.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Brett Miller is the president of Custom Software by Preston (CSP). For more than 10 years CSP has impressed clients with highly effective software solutions and teams of multi-talented software engineers. ChicaneDesign Great article Brett! Nice Article. MapQuest Founder on the Past, Present.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Darren Nix , Group Manager of the Assessments product team at Indeed and founder of the Y Combinator -backed startup Interviewed (acquired by Indeed), puts it this way: “Users can’t design your product for you. Hunter Brennick , co-founder and COO of Landing Lion , emphasizes humility and listening for product managers.

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Professor VC

MARCH 10, 2009

Certainly not to say they couldnt have raised more cash and built this in to a bigger company, but was nice to have the option of going either way and doing what was right for the founders and employees. Based on your article you might be interested in my book,which you can see on my web site www.bootstrapping101.com Steve Bennet.

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www.metamorphblog.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Home About Contact Home About Contact The Metamorphosis Becoming an Entrepreneur, by Matt Mireles Startup Lessons for the Proto-Founder I started SpeakerText in October 2008 during the financial apocalypse. You need a Co-Founder, not an Engineering Bitch. Treat everyone you hire like a co-founder. No one funded us.

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firstround.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Ian Langworth started his career as an O’Reilly author and software engineer at Google. Today, he’s the co-founder and CTO of Artillery , bringing console-quality gaming to the web browser. Not too long ago, I was a software engineer preparing to start my very first company. Date: September 4, 2013.

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Software By Rob

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Im a serial web entrepreneur here to share what Ive learned in my 11 years as a self-funded startup founder. I cover topics that affect software and web startups of all sizes, but mostly relating to startups you can fund yourself. at 9:01 am Excellent article! Follow me Startups for the Rest of Us. 2 Dan Hulton on 02.03.10

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

The reaction from our software guys was a little less kind. “Are Do you understand you are doubling the amount of work you are going to make for generations of software engineers? Customer Development is about testing the founder’s hypothesis about what constitutes product/market fit with the minimum feature set.

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blog.launchbit.com

MARCH 8, 2012

The original intention was to get at whether the type of compensation offered would dramatically change a persons intent to sign on with the non-technical founder. After that, potential technical co-founders were concerned about team dynamics. Youre gonna need chemistry between the founders and a great team dynamic is invaluable.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 8, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, December 8, 2008 Continuous integration step-by-step Lets start with the basics: Martin Fowlers original article lays out the mechanics of how to set up a CI server and the essential rules to follow while doing it. Great article. So dont sweat the details - jump in and start experimenting.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2014

And now… our weekly roundup of the great links and articles we shared with you over the past week on our crowdSPRING Twitter account (as well as my own Twitter account ). Where are the Women Software Engineers? – crowdspring.co/12gwMCO. 13 Things Startup Founders Aren’t Thankful For – crowdspring.co/1B6KrdY.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Non-Technical Co-Founders Co-Founders Technical Co-founders Finding Co-Founders Startups & "How Important Are Ideas?" " Web Development Startups Solo Founders I am a creative guy with a startup idea. Rockstar v.

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Software By Rob

JULY 14, 2009

The roadblock that so many entrepreneurs encounter as they try to launch is thinking they, or one of their co-founders, has to perform every task necessary to get their product out the door. Im a serial web entrepreneur here to share what Ive learned in my 11 years as a self-funded startup founder. at 4:57 am This is a great article.

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

Im a serial web entrepreneur here to share what Ive learned in my 11 years as a self-funded startup founder. I cover topics that affect software and web startups of all sizes, but mostly relating to startups you can fund yourself. at 4:14 am I enjoyed the article very much. #8 at 4:38 am Nice article.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 2, 2013

Another thing they have in common: I find most high-tech startup founders are software engineers enamored with the idea of waking late, sidling up to a coffeeshop table, pecking away at an IDE, getting into the zone for hours at a stretch, and doing what they love – coding something of their own invention.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

As one of the coherent commentators says below, Joel Spolsky himself laments schools teaching Java with the same basic reasoning of my article above, albeit more diplomatically stated.) .NET This is probably the stupidest article I’ve read today, and I thought Scoble was going to bring home the prize, but nope. Matt Sherman.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Sam is the Founder and CEO at Writesonic – an AI writer that helps you write SEO-optimized, long-form (up to 1500 words) blog posts & articles in 15 seconds. In this episode, I talk with the founder of Writesonic AI, Sam Garg, about AI today. So I'm sort of like a software engineer by background.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 19, 2018

When my co-founder and I began brainstorming company names, we knew we needed the word ‘influence’ in our name. The name was inspired by the term software development kit which programmers use to more quickly create software through pre-written code functions. Thanks to Jessica L. Thanks to Carl Potak, StartupDevKit !

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

First read my short “ Version Infinity ” article. Insightful post, as always Dave (2010-06-19) # Fortuitous that I should read your article now as its given me some great pointers and refreshers on things I (should) already know. Alex Kharlamov (2010-06-19) # Hi Derek, Thats a great article.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 22, 2019

But today, the equilibrium is shifting for many founders. Next-generation chat, video calling, and project management software help keep teams in sync. From their article: Got 990 free hours? Yet that’s how long it takes the typical startup to hire 12 engineers. Collaboration tools have improved. Not likely.

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