Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

So if youre new, consider not paying any attention to the rest of this post, and just diving into the archives, if you havent already. Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) So much for timing. Your "startup-lessons-learned" are very valuable.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Heres my favorite part: If youve got a team, part of the team should obsess about the backlist, honing it, editing it and promoting it, while the rest work to generate (as opposed to promote) the frontlist. Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 7, 2009

Starting instead from a position where feedback cycle time is the priority and allowing quality to ratchet up as the product matures provides a more natural lead in to continuous deployment. The rest of the post, which you can read here , discusses the application of these principles to other contexts. Interesting article, Eric.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

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. Only eBay was founded by a single individual – the rest were team efforts. I need money for the servers. No phone system. No legal muck.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Developer, engineer, CTO, or technical co-founder? And while it's condescending it's tone may prove quite useful for non-engineers wanting to start internet businesses with no idea of what is required to do so, which it seems like a lot of people who'd ask this kind of question in this kind of forum, are.

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Up and Running

MAY 13, 2015

You get really distracted by some wonderful things you’re researching on the internet. Guys, we all, as time managers and as time ninjas, we have to be really clear that as busy as we are, our time is our most precious resource. I bill out at somewhere near 200 an hour most of the time. Be very careful.

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