Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Or your cost of customer acquisition just magically floats up to match your customer lifetime value. Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you? In a subscription business, maybe your attrition starts matching your acquisition, balancing like magic. we dont talk enough about how it feels.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. Call it facts for hire. It would be a bit like the hired gun in the old west, but more suited for today’s times. You got it.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

And we cant hire new engineers any faster, because you cant be interviewing and debugging and fixing all at the same time! Even with the highest standards imaginable, theres no way to hire just genius hackers. Hire a CTO or VP Engineering. Worst of all, your teammates are constantly wanting to have meetings.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 7, 2009

By pushing the envelope, we can challenge our assumptions about consequences and get better at what we fear at the same time. For people we hired from larger companies especially, this was challenging. When a new engineer started at IMVU, I had a simple rule: they had to ship code to production on their first day.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

The software was sold based on installation cost running on local servers for enterprises—which was very, very expensive. If you don’t yet have a team yet, list the roles you need to hire for. If you don’t yet have a team yet, list the roles you need to hire for. Estimating Realistic Startup Costs. The business model.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 8, 2015

Instead, we built a product first (that’s expensive!) and then started hunting around for the right target market (that’s usually the cheap part of product development). Or, your target market might be a certain type of employee at another company, such as a CTO or head of marketing. First, what’s market research?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 5, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, September 5, 2008 Great open source scalability tools from Danga If you are trying to build a scalable LAMP service, its always best to start with the original and still quite relevant presentation, from Brad Fitzpatrick when he was at LiveJournal. You can find the 2005 version here.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

We ran ad campaigns against every single product we could think of in an adjacent market space to ours. Since we were only paying per click, it didnt cost us anything to cast a wide net. We would pretty much bid on any phrase that was "[name of competitive product] chat" and variations like that.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

But six months in, you’re gonna cry when you see someone else put out that same product you’re pitching me right now. Like I said, forget everything else and just get your product out the door. Inevitably, the excuses begin: I need to hire people to build the product. I don’t know any developers. No phone system.

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Up and Running

MAY 13, 2015

I’ll say again, as a mom of three, for any parents on the call, especially work-at-home parents, if you’re trying to juggle running a business while your kids are present, and if you’re especially the primary caretaker of little people, it’s hard sometimes to admit that your kids are distractions or interruptions.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Developer, engineer, CTO, or technical co-founder? If you have an idea and either customers waiting for the product to be built, or a startup success under your belt already, skip to step 2. As a developer, I feel that design/creative is undervalued in the early stages of product development. Rockstar v.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2020

He also said, “The most important hire I made in my time at the JAIC was the chief technology officer, Nand Mulchandani.” In this class session Nand Mulchandani, JAIC CTO who just completed an extended stint as Acting Director, continued the discussion of AI and the role of the JAIC. I didn’t print off a presentation.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

Plus, with memory-resident code, its pretty easy to forget which version of the code is actually running at any given time. Direct mapping of outputs to inputs : URLs to files, code and presentation intermixing. PHP encourages one of the worst programming heresies of all: intermixing code and presentation logic in a giant mish-mash.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

I have come to believe during my time as an operator, entrepreneur and investor that the balance of these skills is so important to the long-term health of a business that if balance is not achieved early then the impact later can be profound - sometimes terminal. Colin Hayhurst , CTO co-founder then CEO of start-up b.

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