Feld Thoughts

JULY 11, 2010

One of the side benefits of blogging are the various inspiring emails I get from readers about different topics. I work for a large corporation and managed to go from having no degree to an MBA by completing 7 years of night classes. After finishing, I considered pursuing my doctorate, but it didn’t work out.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. I am heavily indebted to earlier theorists, and highly recommend the books Lean Thinking and Lean Software Development. Labels: customer development , lean startup 8comments: Amy said.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

I suspect Mr. Wadhwa used hyperbole in his TechCrunch blog post to get more readers to look at his work. But I’m opposed to using data to “prove&# unprovable facts because I know that readers are often susceptible to this kind of data manipulation. You’re not born into being a world-class software developer.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 16, 2009

Longtime readers will recall how I first met him. For those whove heard it, it contains a length discourse on the subject of agile software development and extreme programming, including its weaknesses when applied to startups. Longtime readers will recall how I first met him. Not so with Kent Beck. Not so with Kent Beck.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 25, 2012

Good article about Facebook’s dual stock class structure & investors – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Interesting insight for writers … use sensory verbs to better stimulate readers – [link].

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 30, 2009

I thought Id share a little bit of that, too: I’ve been interested in different approaches to software development going back to 1987 when – in my first company Feld Technologies – my partner Dave Jilk and I started talking about “semi-custom software development&# (way ahead of its time).

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mobile.smashingmagazine.com

OCTOBER 17, 2013

There are three principal ways to develop a mobile solution: native code, hybrid mobile app, mobile Web app. Developing an application in HTML5 is a way to leverage code across multiple platforms , rather than having to write the entire application from scratch for each platform. Advertisement. On Android 4.2,

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

We wanted an agile approach that would allow us to build our software architecture as we needed it, without downtime, but also without large amounts of up-front cost. After all, the worst kind of waste in software development is code to support a use case that never materializes. Seth Godin: How often should you publish?

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Software By Rob

MAY 13, 2010

This post is an excerpt from my upcoming book, Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer’s Guide to Launching a Startup. That single sentence that grabs the reader in and makes her know she’s in the right place. That single sentence that grabs the reader in and makes her know she’s in the right place. Get Paid Faster.”

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 2, 2008 On deployment My favorite question to ask a software development team is "how do you do a release." Usually, whatever is used as a development cycle. How long does the software sit un-deployed? You can tell a lot about a company from their deployment flow.

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Software By Rob

APRIL 21, 2010

It’s easy to poke holes in someone’s argument on a forum with 100 readers where all you give is your first name and last initial. I guess I’m going to have to develop a thicker skin before I release my product! #6 Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. 6 Dan on 04.21.10

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

It uses principles of agile software development, open source and web 2.0, Lastly for those of you who decide to stop by the Expo, please come say hello and let me know youre a reader, so I can say thanks in person. Hey Someone else who is extending the agile/lean approach beyond just developing software.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

The biggest reason to use GTM is that it keeps all of your tracking under one roof and (because of its tight integration with tools like Google Analytics) it can help free up your development resources (since you can now track things like Google Analytics Events with just a few clicks).”. Confused about how the Data Layer works?

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

The most common feedback Ive heard from readers has been that I should provide details on my background. Although Catalyst folded with the dot-com crash, Ries continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com, leading efforts in agile software development and user-generated content.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 27, 2009

It uses principles of agile software development, open source and web 2.0, I asked him to reserve a seat or two for blog readers; if youre interested in coming to the event, you need to email him directly and explain why you want to be there. As usual, if youre a reader, please come say hello - and bring your questions.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 28, 2009

Its an essential discipline of good software development, especially in startups. Because, unless you are working in an extremely static environment, your product development team is learning and getting better all the time. Labels: agile , product development , Test-driven development 11comments: William Pietri said.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

gave up 70% of the company to American Research & Development Corp. Facebook went public in May with two classes of stock that give founder and Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg about 57% of the voting power even though he only owns about 28% of the shares. Zynga went public last December with three classes of stock.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Or, rather, more offensively to Facebook and Google employees, less offensive to.NET developers, though the underlying message is the same.). But just to clarify a couple points, 24-hours into the storm: Yes,NET developers are great at what they do. It’s the most modern platform for application development on the planet.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Say, “We are hiring a developer to create only the beginning of an application. Heres the source code,” make sure you finish with something like, “For completion of this project, please have this up and running on a development webserver I can access to test its functionality as described.” The requirements are as follows.”

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2011

I know readers of this post aren’t in that demo but that’s what the data says. Programming should be the middle class job of the next 20 years. Ryan’s long-term goal is to help large populations of people train themselves at young ages with world-class online teachers. Americans watch 5.3

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andrewchenblog.com

MARCH 10, 2010

Coupled with A/B testing, customer development, and thinking through business problems in a scientific, hypothesis-driven way, you end up with a powerful cocktail of techniques to build a modern startup in the most iterative way possible. Anyway, let’s dive into this topic more, starting with technical debt.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

undergrad could build something better as a class project. Its not what people learn in classes at MIT and Stanford that has made technology companiesspring up around them. I wanted to work in the pure, intellectual world of software, not deal with customers mundane problems. Andyet theres a lot of money at stake.

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www.kalzumeus.com

AUGUST 13, 2012

Kalzumeus Software. Patrick McKenzie (patio11) blogs on software development, marketing, and general business topics. Given that reading Getting Real is a win for the reader and a win for 37signals, as a marketer, you want to convince people that reading it is in their interest. Greatest Hits. Standing Invitation.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Background: Joel Spolsky studied Computer Science at Yale University (class of 1991). This ended up developing into Visual Basic for Applications , the strategy for programmability in Microsoft Office. Defensibility in Software. Do you see product managers as a hindrance to software development? 15 minutes.

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