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Lessons Learned: Lean hiring tips

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 19, 2009 Lean hiring tips In preparing for the strategy series panel this week, I have been doing some thinking about costs. I want to talk specifics, and when you come right down to it, most technology startups dont have a very interesting cost structure.

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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

Startup Lessons Learned

Through my platform choices, I have forced many people to learn PHP and to work with it on a regular basis. And yet I keep returning to PHP as a development platform, as have most of my fellow startup CTOs. But that just begs the question: why does PHP have the most thriving community? This post is about why.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

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Rather, I didn’t have anyone around me familiar enough with startups to tell me that I was doing it all wrong. I don’t know any developers. Rather, team up with one or two other people who have skills synergistic – not overlapping – with your own, but with similar goals and passions. How To Get There. The race has already begun!

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10 years of entrepreneurship

Startup Lessons Learned

If Id bought just a handful of the "best of the rest" domain names that were available at the time (for a whopping $70 each), I probably could have just retired right then. Yet my feeling of having missed out prevented me from experimenting with ideas that might have worked. But thats still in the future. And Google?

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From worker to start-up - how to plan your escape

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Register | Login ); Editors Note Do you understand the media and have a great story to tell? But few have taken a break from a career working as a medical doctor to focus on developing a start-up IT company. If not, your PR efforts will suffer. Home Planning Business ideas Business planning How to start a.