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Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 15, 2008
I had the opportunity to pioneer this approach to funnel analysis at IMVU, where it became a core part of our customer development process. To promote this metrics discipline, we would present the full funnel to our board (and advisers) at the end of every development cycle. This is not what I have in mind.
Startup Lessons Learned
JANUARY 12, 2009
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. These days, successful programming is as much about processing data as creating algorithms. Which makes them exactly the kind of programmers companies should want to hire.
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