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Lessons Learned: Work in small batches

Startup Lessons Learned

Its had tremendous impact in many areas: continuous deployment , just-in-time scalability , and even search engine marketing , to name a few. The batch size is the unit at which work-products move between stages in a development process. Take the example of a design team prepping mock-ups for their development team.

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The Principles of Product Development Flow

Startup Lessons Learned

It moves at a rapid clip, each argument backed up with the relevant math and equations: marginal profit , Littles law , Markov processes , probability theory , you name it. Its goal is to help us recognize that every artifact of our product development process is really just a proxy variable. Second, what is the cost of these queues?

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Lessons Learned: What is customer development?

Startup Lessons Learned

There are three fundamental situations that change what your company needs to do: creating a new market (the original Palm), bringing a new product to an existing market (Handspring), and resegmenting an existing market (niche, like In-n-Out Burger; or low-cost, like Southwest Airlines). What is customer development?

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

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For example: “A company creates an account, then creates a new project with a title and description. Each document has a from-language, to-language, and a name. They log in to translate the documents, one at a time, marking each finished when done, which sends the file back to the company for review.” And thank you Derek!

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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

But we were cutting corners in the development methodology as well as in the code, in the name of increased speed. I now believe that the "pick two" concept is fundamentally flawed, and that lean startups can achieve all three simultaneously: quickly bring high-quality software to market at low cost.

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Episode 1: Business Loans, Website Tips, and the Apple Watch – The Bcast

Up and Running

Twenty-three year-olds in New York City running a small business. If you’re an eCommerce site, your category page or your product page is much more likely entrance into your site than them just typing in your domain name. Those things cost me $5,000, $10,000 a build five or 10 years ago. We weren’t just weak.

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Finding Your Co-Founders

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SVASE or Founder Dating in Silicon Valley, First Tuesday in London and Hackers and Founders in New York all come to mind. Team with co-workers at your current job or that internship you did last summer. Other cities like New York, Boston, Seattle, LA and Austin TX also have pretty strong startup communities.