Hearpreneur

JULY 8, 2017

Todd McGuire is the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of startup incentaHEALTH and we had to the opportunity to hear from him about starting business, the future of the company and what entrepreneurship means to him. My company is a mash up of 3 of my deepest passions: health, technology and entrepreneurship. Hi, I’m Todd.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

More recently, Google Search Console rolled out a Core Web Vitals section, which tracks a set of website performance metrics that focus on user experience. Enter your URL on this free tool, and you’ll see an overall score and some useful metrics. Here are the metrics Google Page Insights measures that specifically relate to SRT.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Notice that none of those five reasons deals with TDD or automated testing, which have changed the game. This is the approach of test-driven-development (TDD). I really enjoyed the aspect of TDD that had me learning about _how_ to test software and it coerced me into writing better, more fault tolerant, code.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 17, 2010

I was the junior guy on a project team; I was called in to do some technical due diligence for reasons that were obscure to me, because the team already had much more senior engineers assigned to it. As a technical fix, it was brilliant. I remember one such meeting vividly. So they react in two ways.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 2, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, August 2, 2008 Paul Graham on fundraising I have found no better primer on the current realities of starting a new technology company in a startup hub like Silicon Valley than Paul Grahams essays. but rest assured they would be. Startup Lessons Learned - the Conference (April 23.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 15, 2008 The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time Split-testing is a core lean startup discipline, and its one of those rare topics that comes up just as often in a technical context as in a business-oriented one when Im talking to startups. First of all, why split-test?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 15, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, January 15, 2010 Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Harvard Business Review) The next part in the series I am writing for Harvard Business Review is online. They are long-term bets on the development of a new line of business, a new technology platform, or the creation of a new market.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Of the techniques he mentioned, I think four are fundamental and critical for any lean startup: TDD (or the even more politely named TATFT ) Continuous integration Automate your deployments Collect statistics The tools to help you do these things are getting better and better every day, but dont confuse tools with process.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 15, 2015

I’ve been too busy working on a lawn mowing startup in Brisbane Australia, more than 7,000 miles away. Pay attention to your metrics, because a company will build what the CEO measures. What I fell in love with was Sam’s How To Start A Startup class at Stanford. The interesting thing is that I’ve never even been to Stanford.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Heres my diagnosis of his problem: He has some automated tests, but his team doesnt have a continuous integration server or practice TDD. And has the tension goes down, it will be easier to get the whole team (including the MBAs) to embrace TDD and other good practices as further refinements. I'm a die hard believer in TDD.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2010

And a special thanks is due to all of our presenters, panelists, and mentors. Although many of the non-technical folks in the room didnt understand what was happening in the moment, plenty of hackers were on high alert. If thats true, its primarily due to your hard work, building companies and testing new ideas. We all owe you.

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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. It had a pretty good technical design. That "good design" turned out to be technical debt, after all.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 7, 2010

for Harvard Business Review) Im excited to have just published the first of several articles on entrepreneurship for the Harvard Business Review online. The Conversation - Harvard Business Review For most of us, the phrase management science conjures up a decidedly non-entrepreneurial image, and for good reason.

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Board Effect

JUNE 5, 2024

For example, you might have a prominent attorney on your board who also has had executive level experience in HR or a CEO of a local organization who also has experience launching a tech startup. Provide regular status reports with straightforward metrics in the dashboard of your board management tool, and celebrate the board’s wins.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

The other revels in the world as we all know it will be someday: limitless distribution enabled by new technologies, the importance of collaborative filters, and on-demand availability of all content for end-users. But the same technologies that make life difficult for traditional marketers also offer them unprecedented new opportunities.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2010

Recent economic events, technological change, and the rapid diffusion of information about the old models have combined to help us all realize just how important entrepreneurship is - and just how little we really know about it. My success is due in no small part to their early and enthusiastic endorsement.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Playing with new technologies. Growth - when you have existing customers, the pressure is on to grow your key metrics day-in day-out. We also try to communicate the initial due date with as few people outside our company (investors, customers, etc) as possible to avoid losing credibility. Seeing whats possible.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

They take things like unit testing, design documents and code reviews more seriously than any other company Ive even heard about. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

Im also excited to share two long-form reviews from actual attendees. Inspiring ideas: real-time biz metrics; safe continuous deployment; A/B split testing. Technically you argue it goes back 30 years when StorageTek was founded. Articulate, inspirational. jdegoes : Great talk from @ericries last night.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, May 14, 2009 The Lean Startup Workshop - now an OReilly Master Class My rate of posting has been much lower lately, and this is mostly due to preparations for the upcoming Lean Startup Workshop on May 29. I joined a financial services tech startup in 1999. May 14, 2009 5:23 AM David said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

So when we start checking in code more often, release more often, or conduct more frequent design reviews, we can actually do a lot to make those steps dramatically more efficient. The only disadvantage that comes to mind is the potential bottleneck of submission reviews, when that is deemed necessary.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

That data is completely consonant with the people I know who are successful technologists today, and similar patterns are documented in each recent wave of technology innovation. There would be no Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, or countless other job-creating tech companies today if early computers required corporate authorization to use.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Hes a new employee, and he was not properly trained in TDD So far, this isnt much different from the kind of analysis any competent operations team would conduct for a site outage. What started as a technical problem actually turned out to be a human and process problem. So-and-so made a mistake why did his mistake get checked in?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

Thanks to a phenomenon called the Fundamental Attribution Error in psychology, humans tend to become convinced that other people’s behavior is due to their fundamental attributes, like their character, ethics, or morality – even while we excuse our own actions as being influenced by circumstances.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

Its common to find a hacker at the heart of almost any successful technology company. When a startup encounters difficult technical problems, this is the guy you want solving them. As the company grows, hes the go-to person for almost everything technical, and so hes very much in demand. All is not lost, though.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 23, 2019

Mobile UX mistakes usually result from one of four issues: Siloed teams; Data traps; Technical blind spots; Customer blind spots. Technical blind spots. Organizations often obsess over NPS, but it’s a metric that sits at the top of the pyramid. AdoreBeauty is an Australian beauty and cosmetics brand from Australia.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2009

That’s because Five Whys will often pierce the illusion of separate departments and discover the human problems that lurk beneath the surface of supposedly technical problems. But if we stay stuck at the technical parts of the problem, and never uncover the human problems behind them, we’re not going far enough.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 3, 2009

In a lot of cases, this requires a lot of energy invested in talking to customers or metrics and analytics. Refreshing to finally see lean and agile thinking emerge in product/business-floors and not only in technology. In fact, MVP is quite annoying, because it imposes extra overhead. I know it's going to help me immensely!

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

I have a few contractors to do the technical side of my work and a customer support person, but that’s it. I haven’t been to the desert in Australia, but it’s about the equivalent of that. I have a house in Brisbane, Australia, and I own my car, etc. I didn’t have a contractor doing technical things for me.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

Yes, you may be more familiar with the term open source, but lets give credit where credit is due , at least for today). Ignore the famous people who are busy giving lots of speeches about how technology X will change the world. Heres the short version: hire people from the online communities that develop free software.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

What’s even more remarkable is that the amount of financing poured into private cloud companies dwarfed the amount raised by public cloud companies in 2021, as hedge funds like Coatue, Tiger and Dragoneer are turning their eyes to the private tech markets. Israel also has the largest number of unicorns per capita, with 2.9 vs US’ 2.4x).

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Code reviews and pairing Great practices. So that you can learn from our mistakes, Chad has helpfully listed ten reasons why you want to manage this dirty-code (sometimes called "technical debt") problem proactively. The longer you wait to find out about the problem, the more likely it is to have fallen out of the human-memory cache.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 11, 2014

Here’s the Data | Harvard Business Review – crowdspring.co/1lLgAjK. Cash Piles, Paranoia Fuel Tech Giants’ Buying Binge - crowdspring.co/1gKTw1y. Benchmarking Box’s S-1: How 7 Key SaaS Metrics Stack Up | by Thomas Tunguz - crowdspring.co/1dysrz8. How Old Are Silicon Valley’s Top Founders?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 13, 2009

Wow, great review! Thanks for the informative review. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. I'm sold.just bought a copy (and at $39.95 The author should give you a cut!

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

From a technical point of view, its amazing. All I see is a name, an icon, a price, the developers name, and a review star-rating. The reviews are all over the map. But even clicking through to see a screenshot and some reviews is incredibly time consuming, given the hundreds of apps in most categories.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 24, 2018

You can’t market effectively if you don’t know your audience, and Google Analytics is one of the best (and cheapest) options available for gathering valuable metrics about your website and app’s usage and performance. They’ll share dozens of designs for you to review, and will tweak the designs based on your feedback.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Over time, such teams either explode due to irreconcilable differences or dramatically slow down. No vanity metrics should be looked at. Even in the narrow field of giant tech companies, their early products were wildly different. Over time, such teams either explode due to irreconcilable differences or dramatically slow down.

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