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Lessons Learned: The ABCDEF's of conducting a technical interview

Startup Lessons Learned

The technical interview is at the heart of these challenges when building a product development team, and so I thought it deserved an entire post on its own. Still, a startup product development team is a service organization. Labels: hiring , product development 5comments: TedHoward said.

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Lessons Learned: Five Whys

Startup Lessons Learned

Most of this code was from a variety of open source PHP projects that were glued together with the shortest path to goal possible. The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: Five Whys Where did Silicon Valley come from? What is customer development?

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Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?

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When Linus started what later on became Linux, he was at best a wet behind the ears developer. When Zuckerberg started Thefacebook.com he was a PHP coder (translation: not a real developer). I mean a rockstar developer, you need a reliable, steady, bull-like technical partner. I'll give you a 50% here.

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Finding Your Co-Founders

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In Silicon Valley, rock climbing’s a current hot spot for startup folks. SVASE or Founder Dating in Silicon Valley, First Tuesday in London and Hackers and Founders in New York all come to mind. To be blunt, find a way to move to Silicon Valley. So is ultimate frisbee. Find your ticket.

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Lessons Learned: Achieving a failure

Startup Lessons Learned

Without conscious process design, product development teams turn lines of code written into momentum in a certain direction. This is why agility is such a prized quality in product development. As far as I know, there are no products that are immune from the technology life cycle adoption curve.

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Startup Tools

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interactions, widgets, effects Django – high-level Python framework Cappuccino – open source framework for app development Kodingen – cloud development environment, code editor, hosting service, collaboration platform. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Simple editing. startupcto

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

PHP-FPM (a patch for php4/5 to greatly improve FastCGI SAPI usage). pgbouncer (Lightweight connection pooler for PostgreSQL, from the developers of Skype). cakePHP (PHP). Drupal (PHP). Kohana (PHP). Zend Framework (PHP). WordPress (PHP). Aptana Cloud (svn, IDE, php, java, rails etc…).