Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

Other companies accomplish this by hiring a large staff of content production experts - and get a very good result. We combined three tactics: extensive use of free software, an open platform for user-generated content, and leveraged distribution channels. Leveraged distribution channels.

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bizthoughts.mikelee.org

MARCH 8, 2012

I was able to hire phenomenal software engineers and grow a strong team culture. With all the funded startups that are unable to hire, that’s a huge ace up my sleeve. Or even contribute to an open source project. Farmville & neighbors #distribution # 19 hours ago Copywrite © 2012 MikeLee.org.

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Version One Ventures

MAY 23, 2017

Ethereum has elevated Bitcoin’s idea into a distributed world computer. We’re seeing new use cases, such as decentralized storage, decentralized prediction markets, and the ability to monetize software/open source. P.S.: Citizen Hex is hiring ! But with Ethereum, we’re seeing something new. market cap in under two years.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Beware the new hire who has "extensive experience" in startups or big companies - using a different growth driver. Make sure you test to see if they are truly open minded, because otherwise you risk them banging their head against a wall, trying to use the tactics that worked so well in their previous company.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

So one of the first things we did was to hire an Oracle expert and get to work. Our open source counterparts who did solve the scale problem, had some serious hardware costs to deal with. How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone How to Usability Test your Site for Free The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the tim.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

If not, whos going to insist we switch to free and open source software? For example, how are you going to explain that component drive architecture like.NET isn't going to work for cross platform open open source business models? Massive proprietary databases? I dont think so.

CTO 168

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone How to Usability Test your Site for Free The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the tim. Waves of technology platforms The lean startup Customer Development Engineering Greasemonkey compiler Great open source scalability tools from Danga Ideas.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The signals are loud and clear : seed and late stage valuations are getting frothy and wacky, and hiring talent in Silicon Valley is the toughest it has been since the dot.com bubble. Startups that win in the bubble will be those that get wide adoption (using freemium, viral growth, low costs, etc) and massive distribution (i.e.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

As for Magento, the price will strongly depend on whether you will need a free open-source version or go for a more equipped iteration that you can have for an additional price. This little theme is awesome for multivendor marketplaces should you specialize in distributing downloadable products.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone How to Usability Test your Site for Free The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the tim. Waves of technology platforms The lean startup Customer Development Engineering Greasemonkey compiler Great open source scalability tools from Danga Ideas.

Software Review 68

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone How to Usability Test your Site for Free The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the tim. Waves of technology platforms The lean startup Customer Development Engineering Greasemonkey compiler Great open source scalability tools from Danga Ideas.

Audience 119

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone How to Usability Test your Site for Free The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the tim. Waves of technology platforms The lean startup Customer Development Engineering Greasemonkey compiler Great open source scalability tools from Danga Ideas.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone How to Usability Test your Site for Free The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the tim. Waves of technology platforms The lean startup Customer Development Engineering Greasemonkey compiler Great open source scalability tools from Danga Ideas.

San Francisco 142

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 5, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, September 5, 2008 Great open source scalability tools from Danga If you are trying to build a scalable LAMP service, its always best to start with the original and still quite relevant presentation, from Brad Fitzpatrick when he was at LiveJournal. MogileFS - "Distributed (meta) file system.

Open Source 107

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, September 18, 2008 How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone I have had the opportunity to meet a lot of iPhone-related companies lately. There are other models, in other distribution channels. On Facebook, viral distribution has proved decisive. I havent found any yet.

Distribution 74

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 6, 2008

Ive been even more impressed by the various Greasemonkey compilers out there, that let you turn a Greasemonkey script into a full-blown Firefox extension, for easy distribution. How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone How to Usability Test your Site for Free The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the tim.

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www.redmonk.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

The lack of stable logging in Java shows the price of open source -innovation in parallel- with the price of one vendor not being able to say “this is the logging API, be grateful&# , the way MS can do in.NET land. James Governor on VMware CEO: Django, Rails, Open Frameworks, Packaged Apps as Commodity and The New KingMakers.

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www.redmonk.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

The lack of stable logging in Java shows the price of open source -innovation in parallel- with the price of one vendor not being able to say “this is the logging API, be grateful&# , the way MS can do in.NET land. James Governor on VMware CEO: Django, Rails, Open Frameworks, Packaged Apps as Commodity and The New KingMakers.

Java 43

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone How to Usability Test your Site for Free The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the tim. Waves of technology platforms The lean startup Customer Development Engineering Greasemonkey compiler Great open source scalability tools from Danga Ideas.

San Francisco 60

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

It is becoming easier and cheaper for companies to bring products to market, leveraging free and open source software , cloud computing, open social data (Facebook, OpenSocial ), and open distribution (AdWords, SEO).

Lean 102

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

"In a phase change the things that made you successful before don't work anymore" It's tough to cross the chasm without "being remarkable" The distribution and word-of-mouth or word-of-mail that results from being remarkable can sometimes be the difference between crossing the chasm, or falling in and never getting out.

San Francisco 60

San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean DC 60

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 1, 2008

How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone How to Usability Test your Site for Free The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the tim. Waves of technology platforms The lean startup Customer Development Engineering Greasemonkey compiler Great open source scalability tools from Danga Ideas.

San Francisco 68

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone How to Usability Test your Site for Free The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the tim. Waves of technology platforms The lean startup Customer Development Engineering Greasemonkey compiler Great open source scalability tools from Danga Ideas.

San Francisco 131

San Francisco Customer Lean Continuous Deployment 131

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone How to Usability Test your Site for Free The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the tim. Waves of technology platforms The lean startup Customer Development Engineering Greasemonkey compiler Great open source scalability tools from Danga Ideas.

San Francisco 60

San Francisco Continuous Deployment DC Lean 60

startupbaltimore.org

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Each of those ten people have great ideas and passion for their ventures but they are lacking a technical cofounder or the money to hire a programmer. But in my limited experience, the tools that get used in your business tend to be the ones favored by the first hire or by the technical cofounder. All rights reserved.

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www.cscyphers.com

MARCH 8, 2012

If someone were trying to hire me, hold a meet up on Hadoop. Or massively distributed data persistence systems and algorithms. Everything written here is my own fault and not necessarily the view of anyone who hires me, employs me, sits near me or otherwise is willing to admit they know me. open source. PowerPoint.

Cofounder 40

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone How to Usability Test your Site for Free The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the tim. Waves of technology platforms The lean startup Customer Development Engineering Greasemonkey compiler Great open source scalability tools from Danga Ideas.

San Francisco 60

San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean DC 60

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone How to Usability Test your Site for Free The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the tim. Waves of technology platforms The lean startup Customer Development Engineering Greasemonkey compiler Great open source scalability tools from Danga Ideas.

San Francisco 76

San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean DC 76

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Joel is focused on the fact that in many environments, programmers are considered "just the hired help" akin to manual labor, and not treated properly. How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone How to Usability Test your Site for Free The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the tim. Seth Godin: How often should you publish?

Software Review 144

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2023

The support for “open source” software and Wikipedia have pioneered other business archetypes based on open innovation, collaborative decision making, and flat hierarchies. It allows for rapid capture and distribution of the many forms of explicit and implicit knowledge, derived directly from the base transactions.

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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. Approach the task like you would with hiring and speak to references from previous employers, and speak to prior co-workers (approach it casually). are full of smart tech people).

Cofounder 40

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone How to Usability Test your Site for Free The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the tim. Waves of technology platforms The lean startup Customer Development Engineering Greasemonkey compiler Great open source scalability tools from Danga Ideas.

San Francisco 166

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Next Generation Business Models Because a number of smart entrepreneurs realized the importance of lowering CAC, they created new business models such as Open Source, SaaS, Freemium, etc. And this is before you factor in the failure rate (the percentage of sales people hired that don’t become productive).

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Transformify

APRIL 19, 2018

We normally ask our students to contribute to open source to engage with communities and companies with distributed teams and workflows. You want to show that you know about specific things that you want to be hired for. Open Source. Getting started with open source is really easy!

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The support for “open source” software and Wikipedia have pioneered other business archetypes based on open innovation, collaborative decision making, and flat hierarchies. It allows for rapid capture and distribution of the many forms of explicit and implicit knowledge, derived directly from the base transactions.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

8220; His three things (worth reading his whole post anyway) are set vision/strategy and communicate broadly, recruit/hire/retain top talent, and make sure there’s enough cash in the bank. Why Your Startup Should Be Involved in Open Source - ReadWriteStart , September 15, 2010 Oftentimes, when you hear the arguments for "Why open source?",

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 2, 2017

Bloomberg Beta open-sources their entire operating manual on Github, where their website lives. If you are one of six in the LP relationship area, you will have less leverage than if you are a new hire with the only European LP relationships. – Tax distributions. Finally, 15% of the funds require a majority vote. “.

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