Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Was the fact that we were primarily using PHP essential, or could we add new tools written in other languages? Whats one thing a brand-new first-time CTO could learn from them? Labels: product development 15comments: mukund said. Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 6, 2008

I know some of those compilers are no longer available (some are hosted, others are not), so I took the liberty of putting up a copy of the PHP Greasemonkey Compiler. Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you? As I make more, youll find them (with source) at my Greasemonkey Compiler page.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

This gets me into trouble, because it conjures up for some the idea that product development is simply a rote mechanical exercise of linear optimization. You just constantly test little micro-changes and follow a hill-climbing algorithm to build your product. They just ask "which hypothesis should I show?"

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

Meanwhile, we were building our app in PHP, using a generic DB driver and mysql, "for the time being." Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you? We tried to learn how to create a schema, or really anything at all, and mostly failed. How to listen to customers, and not just the loud.

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