YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 7, 2018
Predictive analytics help determine the most effective markets for adspend, suggesting areas where the product is being well-received and those where the cost of customer acquisition is unreasonably high. Big companies can absorb more loss when it comes to advertising; but not small businesses.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 15, 2008
See Customer Development Engineering for my first stab at articulating the theory involved) Ferocious customer-centric rapid iteration, as exemplified by the Customer Development process. I would add -- think of your development and running your business like a PM/Developer uses Agile or Scrum in software development. No more, no less.
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Gust
AUGUST 22, 2012
There is an ample supply of labor; a relative scarcity of challenging, career-building jobs for recent graduates of technical institutes and universities; and a dramatically lower cost structure for many initiatives as a result. Silicon Arabia has engineers in Russia as well as Egypt.)
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 10, 2008
At IMVU , our engineering team accumulated thousands upon thousands of tests, and we had a build cluster (using BuildBot ) that ran them. There are several ways to make progress evident - the Scrum team model is my current favorite. At IMVU, our rule was that a new engineer needed to push code to production on their first day.
Scalable Startup
JANUARY 15, 2015
Work directly with engineers, no company involved. They start by demoing their skills on my project at no cost for 1-2 days. People in the Philippines or India or eastern europe are very low cost – $7-10/hour. Also, it is not about the engineering talent only! I’ve been acting as project manager/dev manager.
Startup Lessons Learned
JULY 29, 2009
Although it costs to pay down the principal, we gain by reduced interest payments in the future. The human tendency to moralize about debt affects engineers, too. We can choose to continue paying the interest, or we can pay down the principal by refactoring the quick and dirty design into the better design.
ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com
JULY 11, 2012
The implementation and architecture can also suffer if the team under or over invests engineering time, implementation of standards, or testing discipline in the wrong areas. The x-axis depicts technical complexity, risk, and cost which are all related. Use prototyping to lower technical risks and costs. No Scrum Master?
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