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Case Study: Rapid iteration with hardware

Startup Lessons Learned

Eric) In a bar in Amsterdam in 2005, my two cofounders and I came to the sad conclusion that startup we tried to built for two years was doomed. My co-founders decided startup life wasn't for them. Open source projects like Arduino and SuperCollider make iterative hardware development cheaper and faster than ever.

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Announcing our investment in Dataloop

The Equity Kicker

Our other category of investment is ‘idea stage’, often with solo-founders.). We got to know David Gildeh, the CEO and one of three co-founders, around this time last year. That means they are up and running and on a 12-18 month path to their Series A. The starting point with this one was the team.

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Lessons Learned: Five Whys

Startup Lessons Learned

When Eric writes, "By the time we started doing continuous integration, we had tens of thousands of lines of code, all not under test coverage." Most of this code was from a variety of open source PHP projects that were glued together with the shortest path to goal possible. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. One that is powered by three drivers, each of which is a part of a major trend: The use of platforms enabled by open source and free software. What are the characteristics of a lean startup?

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

So what does CTO mean, besides just "technical founder who really cant manage anyone?" If not, whos going to insist we switch to free and open source software? For example, how are you going to explain that component drive architecture like.NET isn't going to work for cross platform open open source business models?

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

Leverage product development with open source and third parties. For example, early on at IMVU, we incorporated in tons of open source projects. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Financial leverage refers to investing that is supplemented by borrowed money. One last thought.

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Lessons Learned: The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time

Startup Lessons Learned

It was actually my co-founder Will Harvey who taught me to present this data in the simple format weve discussed in this post. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th.