Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Ship more infrequently While this may decrease downtime (things break and you roll back), the cost on development time from work and rework will be large, and mistakes will continue to slip through. Luckily, Chad Austin has recently weighed in with an excellent piece called 10 Pitfalls of Dirty Code. But it worked. We made it.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

If the CEO wants to completely change the product in order to serve a new customer segment, you need someone in the room who can digest the needs of the new (proposed) business, and lay out the costs of each possible approach. In my mind, theyre racking up costs (one month for that part, two months for that other part, uh oh).

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Up and Running

MARCH 20, 2012

” After her first tech startup dissolved in 2009 (costing her a significant amount of money), she knew she needed some time to figure out what her next venture would be. They were able to recruit a top-notch programmer, who got their core mobile product developed quickly.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Chad and Steve from YouTube met while working at PayPal. Instead I joined an gaming & electronics company… he also told me to save a bunch of money so I could quite my day job and since it would cost money that I don’t already have to go to grad school it’s more appropriate for my particular situation.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

You can argue that the DNA created by Microsoft's over emphasis on distribution (Steve) and development (Bill), has ultimately cost it $50bn or more in lost revenue, market share and market capitalization. Developers have worn the crown for the last 30 or more years in the technology industry - rightly.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2019

Incentives work, but they might work too well and convert people who are not really into the service/product or cannibalize other channels. Always consider the impact of your winning tests on your growth and cost. The cost of experimentation—you hope the upside outweighs the cost. It costs money to learn.

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