Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 28, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, February 28, 2009 Throwing away working code Lean startups work by systematically eradicating waste. But lean startups cant afford to be satisfied with just that definition, because there are situations where working code is itself a form of waste. March 2, 2009 1:58 PM programiTV said.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

If you hire Michelangelo to paint the Sistine Chapel… 2. If you have it, we are hiring!). I still encourage you to take a leaned-in posture towards investing in yourself. If you hire Michelangelo to paint the Sistine Chapel, don't hold his hand while he is painting. They tell a coder how to write advanced code.

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

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. Additionally, if you want to hire more engineers, how hard will it be to find people using this language. You might as well hire an outsourced team.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 25, 2019

They needed a way to use their website to its full potential, but they either didn’t have time or money to hire a marketer. So, I came up with an idea of using social proof to help business owners do marketing, without hiring a marketer. Since I’m not a coder by profession, building a website is out of the question.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

You are here: Home » Hiring » Crazy! Written By Dan Martell on February 2nd, 2012 | Category: Hiring LeanStartup Marketing Metrics Startup Life | 6 Comments. Ability to hire top talent (A+ talent). you can hire for those. www.elance.com and hire from eastern europe. Maple Butter. Search for: Videos.

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David Teten

AUGUST 5, 2013

I haven’t been an active coder since I was in my late 20s, but there’s no question that my experience learning how to code when I was 12 and teaching children and adults how to program has changed the way I think about every aspect of my life. The Lean Startup movement draws from this same philosophy.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 27, 2011

Steve Blank, author of Four Steps to Epiphany , has helped formulate the thinking behind the Lean Startup methodology , together with Eric Ries. He observed that most startups that succeed aren't lean: their goal is to have an exit rather than a scalable business. This is lean development without any customer development.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Inevitably, the excuses begin: I need to hire people to build the product. In later posts I’m going to get into more detail on specific topics like hiring, raising money, what types of ideas have the potential to get big, finding your founders, and the like. In my neck of the woods programmers are hired guns at first year in college.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

In the article, Andrew describes growth hackers as a cross between marketers and coders. September, 2012 – Andrew Chen, who currently does growth at Uber , writes You don’t need a growth hacker , which encourages companies to really consider whether they have product-market fit before hiring a growth hacker.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Update: The end is near, Expensify is hiring a.NET programmer! As you might know, we’re hiring the best programmers in the world. But my coders will beat up your coders, any day of the week. If you are a startup looking to hire really excellent people, take notice of.NET on a resume, and ask why it’s there.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Team Configuration 500 Startups Guerilla Marketing Organizations Entrepreneurship Startup Founders & Entrepreneurs Startups Startup Incubators and Seed Programs Seedcamp Y Combinator TechStars Lean Startups What is the perfect startup team? The former focussed on biz.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

In fact, I am convinced that if you could find some of IMVU’s earliest adopters, they would say something like this: “sure, those guys at IMVU HQ were helpful in writing code and stuff, but in the end they were just the hired help. It was really the community who built that product.&# My last real concern is with the new 2.0

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