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Was the fact that we were primarily using PHP essential, or could we add new tools written in other languages? Labels: productdevelopment 15comments: mukund said. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to CustomerDevelopment ► June (3) What is a startup? What if someone wanted to write their module in OOP style?
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As the product matured, they were able to ratchet up the quality to prevent regression on features that had been truly embraced by their customers. Second, leveraging a dynamic scripting language (like PHP) for building web applications made it easy to quickly set up a simple, non-disruptive deployment process.
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The Entrepreneur’s Guide to CustomerDevelopment ► June (3) What is a startup? ► 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.
The Entrepreneur’s Guide to CustomerDevelopment ► June (3) What is a startup? ► 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.
The Entrepreneur’s Guide to CustomerDevelopment ► June (3) What is a startup? ► 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.
Or, for something more substantive, how about the top five-most-read posts: Why PHP won Dont launch Five Whys Work in small batches The engineering managers lament But wait, theres more! The Entrepreneur’s Guide to CustomerDevelopment ► June (3) What is a startup? Read the very first comment (thanks tfitz!)
Id love to hear more on customerdevelopment, in particular, and on what we can do to combat the "90%" (nontechnical) causes of startup failure. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to CustomerDevelopment ► June (3) What is a startup? January 2, 2009 4:53 AM Dave McClure said. eric: briefly, you rock dude.
The Entrepreneur’s Guide to CustomerDevelopment ► June (3) What is a startup? ► 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.
The Entrepreneur’s Guide to CustomerDevelopment ► June (3) What is a startup? ► 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.
The technical interview is at the heart of these challenges when building a productdevelopment team, and so I thought it deserved an entire post on its own. Still, a startup productdevelopment team is a service organization. Were there to serve customers direclty, as well as all of the other functions of the company.
Steve Blank on Lean CustomerDevelopment. 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).
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 12, 2009 Why PHP won When I first learned to program on the web, Perl + CGI was the dominant platform. But by the time I was building my first websites for commercial use , PHP had taken over. Writing unit tests or mock objects in PHP is an exercise in constant frustration.
" => I have not bothered to put up a landing page, survey to test customer demand, or done any customerdevelopment whatsoever. "Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?" When Linus started what later on became Linux, he was at best a wet behind the ears developer.
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