Startup Lessons Learned
JANUARY 12, 2009
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 12, 2009 Why PHP won When I first learned to program on the web, Perl + CGI was the dominant platform. But by the time I was building my first websites for commercial use , PHP had taken over. Writing unit tests or mock objects in PHP is an exercise in constant frustration.
This is going to be BIG.
APRIL 27, 2010
I mean, you don’t have to build an actual business—you can just mimic the movements and demonstrate something that looks like a startup on paper, without any of the necessary risk taking, lessons learned or even a fraction of the effort—all the stuff that investors like to see. Step #2: Pitch investors.
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blog.expensify.com
APRIL 24, 2012
Do a curl (or your.NET equivalent) on each domain, and see how many are running a Windows server: I think you’ll find the fraction very small. Full discloure, I am a former PHP, Perl, ColdFusion, ActionScript, VB.NET, ASP.NET and C# developer. Mental Pandiculation » Why I Don’t Hang Out With People Named David.
www.quora.com
JANUARY 16, 2011
Developer, engineer, CTO, or technical co-founder? When Zuckerberg started Thefacebook.com he was a PHP coder (translation: not a real developer). Sooner or later, using PHP or RoR or.Net or some Java framework, that 0.5x the nice thing is that to start, THEY PAY the consultant for you. Rockstar v.
sivers.org
JUNE 25, 2010
Each document has a from-language, to-language, and a name. For example: in my translation site story, above, the first milestone might be just a plain ugly web page where a company can create an account, create a new project, then upload named documents into that project. The system counts how many words are in each document.
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