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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). Eventually, I came to summarize these themes with the phrase " the lean startup."

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

I hope to show why lean and agile techniques actually reduce the negative impacts of technical debt and increase our ability to take advantage of its positive effects. Lean vs. debt In the world of physical goods, the leaner a supply chain is, the less debt is required to operate it. At least in strongly typed languages such as Java.

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Revenue Development

K9 Ventures

SneakerLabs’ first product was a Java-based chat server and client. The hosted offering worked by having users place an “HTML-snippet” on their own website, which would retrieve the Java Applet from our servers and connect back to our servers. I tell these stories to lay the groundwork for what I am going to call Revenue Development.

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Lessons Learned: The ABCDEF's of conducting a technical interview

Startup Lessons Learned

At the time, I was a die-heard Java zealot. and going into a long diatribe about how insecure the ActiveX architecture was compared to Javas pristine sandbox. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May.

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Quick Update

Guy Nirpaz

In addition, I’ve used lean practices to run a product development for years now. Lean is all about creating value for customers while reducing unnecessary waste along the process of doing so. We’re in the process of customer discovery,the first phase of Customer Development methodology.

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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

Startup Lessons Learned

The inimitable Paul Graham has an excellent essay called The Python Paradox in which he argues: that you could get smarter programmers to work on a Python project than you could to work on a Java project. I didnt mean by this that Java programmers are dumb. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May.

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Lessons Learned: What is a market? (a guide for hackers)

Startup Lessons Learned

Remember Java? February 19, 2009 9:17 PM Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Subscribe via email Blog Archive ► 2010 (48) ► October (3) Case Study: Rapid iteration with hardware The Lean Startup Bundle Stop lying on stage ► September (4) Good enough never is (or is it?)