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Putting an End to the Dark Ages of Local Businesses

Both Sides of the Table

Haircuts, nails, massages, trainers, chiropractors, dentists – you name it. and of course I use "we" loosely as the hard work of course was the entire MyTime team sans me]. It got quite good reviews in the media: TechCrunch , LifeHacker & PandoDaily and many others. I’m certain those days are done.

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Remote Work in the Time of COVID-19

ReadWriteStart

…suddenly, nearly all technical jobs are remote-jobs, all dev-teams are distributed teams, and virtually all hiring is remote hiring. Zoom, Slack, Trello, Jira, and Microsoft teams – are all suddenly household names. They may be an excellent communicator with well-developed remote working skills, or not.

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Lessons Learned: Work in small batches

Startup Lessons Learned

Its had tremendous impact in many areas: continuous deployment , just-in-time scalability , and even search engine marketing , to name a few. The batch size is the unit at which work-products move between stages in a development process. Take the example of a design team prepping mock-ups for their development team.

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The Principles of Product Development Flow

Startup Lessons Learned

It moves at a rapid clip, each argument backed up with the relevant math and equations: marginal profit , Littles law , Markov processes , probability theory , you name it. Its goal is to help us recognize that every artifact of our product development process is really just a proxy variable. Wow, great review!

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Lessons Learned: What is customer development?

Startup Lessons Learned

Our goal in product development is to find the minimum feature set required to get early customers. In order to do this, we have our customer development team work hard to find a market, any market, for the product as currently specified. What is customer development? Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online.

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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

But we were cutting corners in the development methodology as well as in the code, in the name of increased speed. Most of the other processs changes - mandatory design reviews (prelimninary, critical, etc), - documenting all our procedures, and so on - were to support those two factors. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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Finding Your Co-Founders

techcrunch.com

Calm Down, Hippies: What San Francisco needs to Learn from the Valley Might The Mac App Store Lead To A New Class Of Micro-Apps? Honestly assess your own strengths and weaknesses thoroughly. Calm Down, Hippies: What San Francisco needs to Learn from the Valley Might The Mac App Store Lead To A New Class Of Micro-Apps?