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. Personal Entrepreneurial attitude.

Fractional CTO 40

Fractional CTO CTO Technical Review CTO Hire 40

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.

CTO 168

CTO Fractional CTO CTO Hire Technical Review 168

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.

San Francisco 68

San Francisco Technology Continuous Deployment Lean 68

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.

San Francisco 166

San Francisco Lean Technical Review Continuous Deployment 166

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.

Naming 94

Naming Technical Review Social Media Startup 94

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. How to listen to customers, and not just the loud.

San Francisco 60

San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean DC 60