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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.
Startup Lessons Learned
JANUARY 30, 2009
Without conscious process design, product development teams turn lines of code written into momentum in a certain direction. This is why agility is such a prized quality in product development. As far as I know, there are no products that are immune from the technology life cycle adoption curve.
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Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 15, 2008
I had the opportunity to pioneer this approach to funnel analysis at IMVU, where it became a core part of our customer development process. To promote this metrics discipline, we would present the full funnel to our board (and advisers) at the end of every development cycle. They just ask "which hypothesis should I show?"
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 30, 2008
Was the fact that we were primarily using PHP essential, or could we add new tools written in other languages? Whats one thing a brand-new first-time CTO could learn from them? Labels: product development 15comments: mukund said. Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you?
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. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.
Startup Lessons Learned
NOVEMBER 29, 2008
The technical interview is at the heart of these challenges when building a product development team, and so I thought it deserved an entire post on its own. Still, a startup product development team is a service organization. Were there to serve customers direclty, as well as all of the other functions of the company.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 8, 2008
Meanwhile, we were building our app in PHP, using a generic DB driver and mysql, "for the time being." The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you? Seth Godin: How often should you publish?
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