www.kernelmag.com

MARCH 8, 2012

The Scene Developers Nailing that elusive technical co-founder. Is there a junior or senior developer from a previous gig who will respect you for a previous role and be ready to build their own baby with you? Development by Message and Adrian McShane. The Kernel. New technology for enquiring minds. Thursday, 8 March 2012.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

If youre looking for resources on getting started, see " Continuous deployment in 5 easy steps ") The goal of continuous deployment is to help development teams drive waste out of their process by simultaneously reducing the batch size and increasing the tempo of their work. How severely is failure punished?

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

" Web Development Startups Solo Founders I am a creative guy with a startup idea. Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life? " => I have not bothered to put up a landing page, survey to test customer demand, or done any customer development whatsoever. Rockstar v.

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joel.is

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

The great piece is focused around two sets of distinct people in a startup: makers (typically coders) and managers (those with lots of meetings). Earlier this year, we realised how powerful mobile will be for Buffer, but the team was small and we had no spare resources for Android development. Meetings cost them more.

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

After quitting my job and starting Sorced , I spent a few months validating my business concept by creating the product mockups and doing customer development. I first spent time trying to build it myself leveraging open source tools, applying my skills from a single CS class, and trying to be an autodidactic coder.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

The App Store is a channel for customer acquisition. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? As the channel gets more and more crowded, just launching an app in the store is getting worse and worse as a strategy for each new entrant.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

The term “Growth Hacking”, invented by Sean Ellis , and made popular by Andrew Chen , a Silicon valley marketer and entrepreneur, is a combination of two disciplines – marketing and coding: Growth hackers are a hybrid of marketer and coder, one who looks at the traditional question of “How do I get customers for my product?”

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The Next Web

JANUARY 27, 2013

Nowadays I’m not a great coder, but in 12 months I learned how to rock in HTML/CSS, JS & Python. Especially because I could have used this time on marketing, sales and customer development, and actually helped our business move forward. They told me it was impossible to pick up coding.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 1, 2009

How many people - coders - do you think a small startup with a 6mm pages/month site should have? The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? I work for a startup and I always try to do all the things you suggest - automatic deployment, continuous integration, A/B tests. -

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 28, 2009

This builds on a lot of great thinking that has come before, like the agile movements insistence that only the creation of working code counts as progress for a software development team. None of it would have happened if we had plenty of cash, or were content to count our progress by traffic or product development milestones.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

In the article, Andrew describes growth hackers as a cross between marketers and coders. On Sean’s GrowthHackers.com , categories include… So, essentially everything from customer development and onboarding to persuasion and social marketing fall under the umbrella of growth hacking. Conducted Customer Development.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

I don’t know any developers. These are the geniuses clogging up Craigslist’s “Computer Gigs&# with ads saying stuff like “Need iPhone Developer: Compensation: 30% of profits (when we get them)&# or “Ruby on Rails ROCKSTAR needed: $20/hr&# [link] Nils Noack Definitely a good read! I need money for the servers.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

what are the most crucial steps to be taken by a new tech startup when outsourcing major part of the tech to IT firms or outsourcing “product development” eg new social media website project? Near shoring development with your team (ex: your team is based in Canada / India) is cool, but not outsourcing. The way I do it.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 27, 2011

This is lean development without any customer development. All these factors combined make it more likely for a single coder to create a one-time hit. The development part is similar to a lean startup: you want to be agile. The development part is similar to a lean startup: you want to be agile.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

3d - developer, designer and distributor. 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. They are many more examples. They are indispensable and the foundation for success.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

At a certain point in IMVU’s development, we faced a difficult choice. As you can imagine, this was a lucrative customer segment. I agree that listening and communicating is a key to success, but customer development can only do so much. my Developer Tokens already answer the question for me.

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