TechEmpower
FEBRUARY 13, 2013
As software developers, we're technophiles, so we enjoy these cycles and quite often find humor listening to the energy spent arguing on either side of issues. Not to downplay developer happiness. The web development continuum has sound, safe, but stodgy on one side and shiny-obsession at the risk of unknown stability on the other.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
OCTOBER 11, 2010
Great," I always exclaim, sharing the thrill of modern software development, "so how will people find out about this brilliant website?". Does Apple win the hearts (yes, hearts ) of millions because of their obsession with design or because of their development APIs? During beta-testing they would be guinea pigs.
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Steve Blank
MARCH 8, 2011
It was designed to bring together many of the new approaches to building a successful startup – customer development, agile development, business model generation and pivots. Could we even could find 40 Stanford graduate students interested in being guinea pigs for this new class? This post is part one.
This is going to be BIG.
DECEMBER 17, 2010
We’d see them all the time and get to be feature testers and product guinea pigs. It was great to watch it grow and develop. USV funded the company and for nine months, Josh and his team worked just three floors down from us. The caption: “ This is del.icio.us.
ReadWriteStart
APRIL 25, 2013
Todd Krautkremer, Pertino’s VP of marketing, explains that, “Since so many members of the Spiceworks community work IT at small and mid-sized businesses, it was a way to treat SMBs as consumers… The Spiceheads provided feedback in real time [that] shaved months off what the normal development timeline would be.”
crowdSPRING Blog
JUNE 26, 2015
Top Web Developer Tools You Need To Know About crowdspring.co/1GIac8B. I Was a Human Guinea Pig: 6 Self-Experimentations crowdspring.co/1B4GoAz. The Work of SuperFriendly crowdspring.co/1dGgKXY. Demo Your Code on These Sites crowdspring.co/1IYi7z6. How to undo (almost) anything with Git crowdspring.co/1C8OJhR. crowdspring.co/1GHvoJK.
Startup Lessons Learned
APRIL 14, 2009
Their product development team is hard at work on a next-generation product platform, which is designed to offer a new suite of products – but this effort is months behind schedule. And what of the product development team? Start using some of those customers as guinea pigs for a self-serve version of the product.
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