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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). Although Catalyst folded with the dot-com crash, Ries continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com, leading efforts in agile software development and user-generated content.

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

As in many scalability decisions, we’d have been much better off investing in agility, so that we could change the architecture in response to actual customer demand, rather than trying to predict the future. At least in strongly typed languages such as Java. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Lessons Learned: The ABCDEF's of conducting a technical interview

Startup Lessons Learned

At the time, I was a die-heard Java zealot. and going into a long diatribe about how insecure the ActiveX architecture was compared to Javas pristine sandbox. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online. I remember answering "What security model?"

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Lessons Learned: What is a market? (a guide for hackers)

Startup Lessons Learned

In the world of startups, this is like trying to sell a product to a very demanding customer who needs to see a lot of features before buying. Remember Java? Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Tough sell. Resegmented market (low cost variety). Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Ha.