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. A book I am looking forward to read after reading you blog.

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trada.com

APRIL 7, 2010

Trada Blog: Paid Search Marketing, Online Advertising and Small Biz Trada's blog for small businesses making paid search, online advertising and social media easier to understand. It seems like the approach du jour is blog first, fundraise second. One of my favorite startup debates is about stealth mode.

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thenetsetter.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Archives Team Badges & Banners Netsetter Directory Twitter Updates Email Updates Rss Updates Do You Need to Be a Developer to Found a Web Startup? Blogging tools, video hosting services, image hosting services and the like, all make this a very accessible place to start up.

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

We’ve heard this from startup founders, product managers, development team leads, CTOs, and others who see their product gaining traction, but simultaneously see performance falling off a cliff. Too often though, it’s the result of performance needs not being properly assessed at the start of work. So, why does this happen?

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Vlad Malik from www.goodui.org gave a review of A/B Tasty: Vlad Malik : “The things I like about ABTasty I like a lot. Here’s a review from Andrew Anderson from Malwarebytes : Andrew Anderson: “ Pros – Offers the best in-product segmentation available. Here’s a review from Johann Van Tonder of AWA Digital : Johann Van Tonder.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 13, 2017

Ensuring that the Product Backlog is visible, transparent, and clear to all, and shows what the Scrum Team will work on next. Ensuring the Development Team understands items in the Product Backlog to the level needed. The Development Team. This helps to de-silo marketing teams and get more work done.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 7, 2007

For some reason there is so much on this blog about the “business side” of things but not much technical stuff. 4: What’s your unique page definition? # 4: What’s your unique page definition? For example for this blog, which is a static site, here is a random url: [link]. Enough said. #

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 1, 2006

On this blog we have talked about the importance of the “Why” often. Early on in the blog I had talked about using surveys as a great way to have a continuous listening methodology when it comes to website visitors. Don’t jump to definitive world changing opinions as a result of a lab test.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

I think where we get into trouble is we have many definitions of quality. 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. Startup Lessons Learned season one : Every post from the blogs first year in print form.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 21, 2020

But at least you have a foundation to share with your design or development team. Eventually, you’ll likely need to work with your development team to build a more sophisticated solution for scale. This can definitely be learned as you go, but is helpful to know beforehand. Will it be perfect? Image source ).

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Some of you out there may find this Google Analytics feature overview to be mostly review. But the one thing Google Analytics doesn’t know right out of the box is your business and the definition of a successful transaction or interaction on your website. Blog eCommerce Resources' That’s awesome!

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 29, 2008

Balancing competing objectives is a recurring theme on this blog - its the central challenge of all management decisions. 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. What is customer development?

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

As a last disclaimer, please consult the definition of the word hacker if youre not familiar with the controversies surrounding that term.) 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.

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mashable.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Likewise, Android developers that want to target the upcoming wave of Honeycomb tablets will need to create variations of their apps for the different device types. Fortunately, this problem has created a microcosm of cross-platform mobile development tools. Follow Sourcebits on Twitter and Facebook for recent news and updates.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

These serve to ensure that everyone who ends up on the development team knows what the system is for. Non-functional requirements – design integration, SEO, availability and uptime requirements, scalability requirements and load calculation, data validators, security and back-up and the development platform (if you have one).

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konamoxt.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Leading the architecture and technical direction of the product - This is closely related to leading the development team, but it is really a different skill set. I definitely agree that the CTO should be qualified to lead the architecture and technical direction of the product, and also to ensure that it is in sync with the business.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Expensify Blog. But it will definitely raise questions during the phone screen, for reasons that are best explained by simile: Programming with.NET is like cooking in a McDonalds kitchen. This is a rant about how startups, by definition, need to think of things from new angles, and those angles typically don’t involve.NET.

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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.

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The Next Web

MARCH 3, 2014

Many app developers believe that the US is their target market, and while it may be true for some, it’s definitely not true for all. A tip from our dev team: don’t hard-code strings in your app. If your update is buggy, users will be intolerant and trash you in reviews and ratings. Isn’t that fun?

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