Mucker Lab

APRIL 6, 2023

Obviously if you target enterprise customers, you usually have a very large ACV (Annual Contract Value) and the product usually is complex. We talk about using the product complexity, your target customer size, your contract value, and whether there's individual use case–those four things--to help you decide if PLG is a fit.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

The goal is to have split-testing be a continuous part of our development process, so much so that it is considered a completely routine part of developing a new feature. I had the opportunity to pioneer this approach to funnel analysis at IMVU, where it became a core part of our customer development process.

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

I recently met a junior software developer working for $200/week + room & board at a business geeks house. After a few months, the demo site won a business plan competition. Eventually I was able to scrape up a few bucks and hired Sarah to build me a website prototype. ONLY YOU DO!

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 3, 2008

Steve Bennett prioritized Management development (I'll be eternally grateful to him for that) and my friend Scott Wilder really got me going on this path by doing my Enneagram assessment (MBTI is too shallow). For the longest time, for example, I was well compensated for being a Senior Individual Contributor. Trust me on that.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

August was a slow month in terms of traffic and I was away for a lot of the month, but there were some really great posts at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. Every time I see my graduate students try to teach for the first time, it’s usually so painful I bite my lip. The Dry Run.

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David Teten

JUNE 6, 2011

Previously CTO, Goldman Sachs. Planning demo day July 22, and a Big Data day in the fall. Adrian Kunzle, Head of Firmwide Engineering & Architecture (CTO), JP Morgan Chase. We might develop ipad trading applications for customers, but not internally. Sales cycle can often go into something like co-development.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Large Tech Meetups: Web Innovators Group : Quarterly Demo-Style meetup in Cambridge draws over 1000 members of the startup community each time. link] – Not a meetup, but a great mentorship program started by serial CTO Sean Lindsay. Entrepreneurial Development Firms. Thoughtbot - Web application development and design.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

" Web Development Startups Solo Founders I am a creative guy with a startup idea. Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life? " => I have not bothered to put up a landing page, survey to test customer demand, or done any customer development whatsoever. Rockstar v.

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www.collegemogul.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Startup Advice: Lessons Learned from Building a Development Team View What links here Posted by Fan Bi on July 19th, 2009 Over the past few months, I’ve explored a bunch of different ways to develop a website without a web developer on the Blank Label team. It turned out to be a terrible decision. Originally.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Inevitably, the excuses begin: I need to hire people to build the product. I don’t know any developers. In later posts I’m going to get into more detail on specific topics like hiring, raising money, what types of ideas have the potential to get big, finding your founders, and the like. I need money for the servers.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Update: The end is near, Expensify is hiring a.NET programmer! Or, rather, more offensively to Facebook and Google employees, less offensive to.NET developers, though the underlying message is the same.). As you might know, we’re hiring the best programmers in the world. Expensify Blog. Some additional comments at the end.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Derek Sivers about me blog books email list contact How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen 2010-06-19 Do you have an idea for a website, online business, or application, but need a programmer to turn that idea into reality? Say, “We are hiring a developer to create only the beginning of an application.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

So, I was really interested in programming, design development, but I didn't realize the kind of business aspect for a very, very long time. So, and then the second thing is like, occasionally, a lot of people would assume I'm a technical, like CTO of a company. I think that's actually an incredible positive development.

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