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Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 30, 2008
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 30, 2008 What does a startup CTO actually do? Often times, it seems like people are thinking its synonymous with "that guy who gets paid to sit in the corner and think technical deep thoughts" or "that guy who gets to swoop in a rearrange my project at the last minute on a whim."
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 8, 2008
So one of the first things we did was to hire an Oracle expert and get to work. Meanwhile, we were building our app in PHP, using a generic DB driver and mysql, "for the time being." Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you?
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Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 6, 2008
I know some of those compilers are no longer available (some are hosted, others are not), so I took the liberty of putting up a copy of the PHP Greasemonkey Compiler. Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you? As I make more, youll find them (with source) at my Greasemonkey Compiler page.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 15, 2008
This gets me into trouble, because it conjures up for some the idea that product development is simply a rote mechanical exercise of linear optimization. You just constantly test little micro-changes and follow a hill-climbing algorithm to build your product. They just ask "which hypothesis should I show?"
Startup Lessons Learned
MAY 7, 2009
As the product matured, they were able to ratchet up the quality to prevent regression on features that had been truly embraced by their customers. Second, leveraging a dynamic scripting language (like PHP) for building web applications made it easy to quickly set up a simple, non-disruptive deployment process.
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JANUARY 16, 2011
Developer, engineer, CTO, or technical co-founder? They are usually in love with their own technical abilities, and many times look for a technical challenge instead of a technical solution (solutions are boring, challenges are cool to brag about). Sooner or later, using PHP or RoR or.Net or some Java framework, that 0.5x
Startup Lessons Learned
JANUARY 12, 2009
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 12, 2009 Why PHP won When I first learned to program on the web, Perl + CGI was the dominant platform. But by the time I was building my first websites for commercial use , PHP had taken over. Writing unit tests or mock objects in PHP is an exercise in constant frustration.
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