Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

If youre trying to design an architecture to maximize agility, how can that work if some people are working in TDD and others not? Platform selection and technical design - if your business strategy is to create a low-burn, highly iterative lean startup, youd better be using foundational tools that make that easy rather than hard.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Design and maintain a roadmap of projects to meet demanding business objectives, taking advantage of trends and new technology where appropriate. Where developing a new system in a start-up environment, work with the business to develop use cases, user stories, user experience design and wire-frames.

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mashable.com

AUGUST 31, 2010

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mashable.com

AUGUST 31, 2010

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Also make sure that you’re communicating well with any web developers or designers you hire. Have appropriate expectations, listen to the professionals in your employ and don’t micro-manage a design or development project. Let developers develop, designers design and you - do your own business.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 16, 2013

Adam Arbolino is the co-founder and CTO of DesignCrowd.com , a logo, web and graphic design marketplace. With the growth of open-sourced platforms and advent of ‘freemium pricing models’, the time to try is now. With the growth of open-sourced platforms and advent of ‘freemium pricing models’, the time to try is now.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

The new design improved on the old one in several ways, but these improvements didnt translate all the way through the funnel. Usually, I think that means youve lost some good aspect of the old design. The designers might be telling you that the new design looks much better than the old one, and thats probably true.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

COMEDIVA, a web production company developing a female-driven video comedy site, is searching for that multi-talented web developer / designer / SEO guru who can handle. View More » Dev & Design Snoop Dogg-Approved Dummy Text: Lorizzle New Adobe Suite Helps Publishers Crea. Netflix Tests Streaming-Only Subscrip.

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mashable.com

JUNE 8, 2010

There’s also a searchable service section with advice on logo design, website development and a service request board if you prefer that providers come to you. Pros: The site claims to be “the world’s BIGGEST source of small business clients.” View More » Dev & Design 5 Innovative Uses of an API [Mashable.

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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." Our open source counterparts who did solve the scale problem, had some serious hardware costs to deal with. We tried to learn how to create a schema, or really anything at all, and mostly failed.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Dev & Design Mashable on Facebook Join Us! Designing and critiquing logos for web-based companies and startups is a pursuit of endless fascination for many of us. Learn more here. See also: Wet floor effect.

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www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Design Articles and Tutorials. Graphic Design Theory. Design Downloads. PHP Tutorials. Web Design. Other possibilities include programming conferences, business networking events , programming forums, Q & A sites like StackOverflow , and open source project contributors. Community Resources.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

View More » Dev & Design 5 of the Best New User Experiences of. PHP Developer at Ultra Logistics (Fai. Bush to Visit Facebook HQ f. Kitschy Indie Spy Feature Premieres o. Aussie Scores Invite to Strangers Th. Our Favorite YouTube Videos This Week. Web Font Award Winners Showcase Why T. Google Wave Comes Back From the Dead.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Dev & Design Mashable on Facebook Join Us! Designing and critiquing logos for web-based companies and startups is a pursuit of endless fascination for many of us. Learn more here. See also: Wet floor effect.

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mashable.com

MAY 28, 2010

When you’re creating a name, remember you’re putting together syllables — a good design is going to be about pleasing contrasts between consonants and vowels, and consonants themselves,” says Johnson. View More » Dev & Design 5 Innovative Uses of an API [Mashable. But don’t get intimidated by the linguistics-speak.

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nikcub.appspot.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Freenode is the network most popular with developers today, especially with open source projects (channels such as #python, #rubyonrails, ##php etc. Branding - You do not need to be a genius designer to come up with a brand. IRC - I booted my entire tech career through people I met on IRC. are full of smart tech people).

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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. As I make more, youll find them (with source) at my Greasemonkey Compiler page. 2comments: Matthew Quinlan said. Seth Godin: How often should you publish?

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

My Experience Back in 2002/2003 I spent hours writing a sales letter and emailing it to 15 local design firms, offering my services as an outsourced development staff (I coded in PHP,NET and Java at the time). In the end you’ll need to find your gifting and figure out a way you can use it to do something people will notice.

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www.theenterprisearchitect.eu

MARCH 26, 2014

Other examples are what Heroku calls a  Dyno ,  CloudFoundry Warden , and the most recent one by Google:  lmctfy  (it seems that creating and open sourcing your own application container is the new hip). Examples are  Google App Engine  (which allows you to deploy Java, Python, Go, and PHP) and  Heroku Buildpacks.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Share this: net c# development django java language php software Were often asked by entrepreneurs which language their startups should adopt when developing their technology. PHP is insecure? These are Java (from Sun),NET (from Microsoft), and three Open Source options: PHP, Python and Ruby.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Dev & Design Mashable on Facebook Join Us! An open source bit of software, Vanity allows you to conduct A/B testing on your site and returns a simple report back to you. What is A/B Testing, Exactly?

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blog.teamtreehouse.com

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Learn Web Design, Coding & more! Not long ago designers who laid out web pages also had to plunge into myriad layers of nested tables, ferreting out that one misplaced or making the same tedious width change across many pages. Designers shopping for a framework are likely to see similarities among their options. Learn More.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Because.NET is designed to extend, not disrupt. NET is designed to tightly integrate with and seamlessly extend the Microsoft stack in extremely powerful but ultimately incremental ways. Some us have evolved past the visual designers. The list goes on and on. March 25, 2011 at 1:12 pm. March 25, 2011 at 1:13 pm.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Most of this code was from a variety of open source PHP projects that were glued together with the shortest path to goal possible. When Eric writes, "By the time we started doing continuous integration, we had tens of thousands of lines of code, all not under test coverage." Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

Sharding for startups To support a single partitioning scheme is easy, especially if you design for it from the start. It also doesnt make sense to design your app for scalability from the start, since you may have to create many iterations before you find a version that requires any scalability at all. 21comments: Imran said.

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www.kalzumeus.com

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

JSON is designed to get into Rails quite easily indeed — just POST it at the server, wham, YAML.load(attacker_data) happened. (The For example, Redmine — an open source developer productivity tool — is commonly installed at individual companies. Designed by. February 1, 2013. [.] Here’s why. [.].

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 7, 2009

Bug Tracking - You can go open source and save money, but you may lose it eventually in the time you spend maintaining and upgrading it. Pricey, but based on my hourly rate it’s cheaper than the open source solution I used previously when you factor in upgrades, crashes, and manual workarounds for missing functionality.

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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.

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kenegozi.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Here in delver we had many success stories with great people coming in with having almost no experience in.NET or Java (which are the major technologies we use here), but php/python/c++/whatever instead. open-source-software(14). Because they are great people, they quickly covered the gap, and became productive in no-time.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. Design/Front End: Twitter Bootstrap : Include this in your website, and you are half finished. High Quality, and open sourced! LiveRoad : A Great IDE for design is very helpful. Seed Startups.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

interactions, widgets, effects Django – high-level Python framework Cappuccino – open source framework for app development Kodingen – cloud development environment, code editor, hosting service, collaboration platform.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

2010-06-19) # What about design mockups using eg. for anyone needing user interface, design and branding for their project visit my portfolio: [link] we love to build bold identities for fresh ideas. What I do like is the coming up with the idea and mapping out the development part. I love your posts Derek, you really GIVE. Insightful.

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