Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Chances also increase if there seems to be a Ruby bent to the content. I originally thought I might get some development process tips (I manage developers), but I find that Im really enjoying your business tips (SEM, listening to customers, etc.). Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Thats just me, though.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 9, 2009

Metrics are people too" is a reminder I constantly needed when I was a manager. However, for those who werent able to get in (or are real gluttons for punishment), I will be speaking the night before at a free event hosted by The Vancouver Ruby/Rails/Merb Meetup Group. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

At IMVU, when wed hire a new engineer, we could get them to ship code to production on their first day, even if they had never programmed in PHP before. Which makes them exactly the kind of programmers companies should want to hire. This let us hire extremely high-caliber programmers to work on it. As always, Paul is right.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

It takes advantage of the idea, which I owe to Clayton Christensen , that customers buying a product are really "hiring" it to do a specific "job" for them. An employer is trying to hire someone for a specific job, and they think they know what that job is. There are four: Existing market. This is applying for an open job req.

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