Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Hes a new employee, and he was not properly trained in TDD So far, this isnt much different from the kind of analysis any competent operations team would conduct for a site outage. For my first time, it was scalability problems and our operations team. Now, everyone is learning together - about your product, process, and team.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

After all, high-quality open source software is free, the cloud makes computer power far less expensive, and anyone with an Internet connection can learn Ruby and CSS. For example, my company decided early on to hire a UI designer, which has helped tremendously with our product development.

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www.kalzumeus.com

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

For example, Redmine — an open source developer productivity tool — is commonly installed at individual companies. For each tech stack we support, we need at least one expert following the primary source for security news for that tech stack. Hacker for Hire, Hire a Hacker, Hack Facebook -.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

This is the first post in what’s going to be a series of blogs on how to go from nothing – no connections, no team, no money and no knowledge of how the startup industry really works – to operating a growing business. But six months in, you’re gonna cry when you see someone else put out that same product you’re pitching me right now.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

Im talking about the actual data-fetching operation. This information is normally maintained by your operations team. We can take advantage of the many open source libraries out there that dont scale especially well, and write as much non-scalable code as we want. You need to store two kinds of information.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Technical debt happens from unexpected bugs and additional development work that results from using short-term solutions (like templates or open-source code). When buying, evaluate the development languages your acquisition is built on to understand how complex the integration process will be. Integrations.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

The second thing that’s changed is that we’re now Compressing the Product Development Cycle. In the 20 th century startups I was part of, the time to build a first product release was measured in years as we turned out the founder’s vision of what customers wanted. That’s no longer the case. The founders. The founders.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Compressing the Product Development Cycle. In the past, the time to build a first product release was measured in months or even years as startups executed the founder’s vision of what customers wanted. A hardware startup had to spend money building prototypes and equipping a factory to manufacture the product.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

When we started IMVU in 2004, we could rely on a staggering amount of open source software that jumpstarted our initial product offering. At IMVU, when wed hire a new engineer, we could get them to ship code to production on their first day, even if they had never programmed in PHP before.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

I have come to believe during my time as an operator, entrepreneur and investor that the balance of these skills is so important to the long-term health of a business that if balance is not achieved early then the impact later can be profound - sometimes terminal. 14 Comments • Nov 15, 2010 +1 for use of Platonic. and the latter on tech.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 17, 2017

In short, they need to approach data and experimentation from multiple fronts, so it gets a bit complicated in how they actually do this, as well as how they balance experimentation with their typical product development process. However since we are an operations focussed company, that’s just the start.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. High Quality, and open sourced! Mantis (Open source). Nagios (open source). Panda (Open source). launchpad (bzr only, also only open source projects).

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