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Lessons Learned: Lean hiring tips

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 19, 2009 Lean hiring tips In preparing for the strategy series panel this week, I have been doing some thinking about costs. Fundamentally, lean startups do more with less, because they systematically find and eliminate waste that slows down value creation. Another terrific post, Eric.

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

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 15, 2008 The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time Split-testing is a core lean startup discipline, and its one of those rare topics that comes up just as often in a technical context as in a business-oriented one when Im talking to startups. and get the answer back as a string.

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

Platform selection and technical design - if your business strategy is to create a low-burn, highly iterative lean startup, youd better be using foundational tools that make that easy rather than hard. Was the fact that we were primarily using PHP essential, or could we add new tools written in other languages? I dont think so.

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5 reasons VCs should favor code-savvy founders

The Next Web

Despite good intentions , CEOs who wouldn’t know PHP from a hole in the ground tend to experience a big disconnect on the front lines. Instead of being at the mercy of the engineering team’s opinions, a coding CEO can lean on his or her own experience and know-how to accurately allocate resources and ensure projects are delivered on time.

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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. Great related post by John Shook at the Lean Enterprise Institute about technical vs. social sides of problems. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May.

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How to Effectively Use WordPress as Your CMS

Brandanew

There is an option to finalize templates for different web pages but it requires PHP scripting when it comes to finalizing templates for posts. Utilizing widgets makes the process of modifying the content of sidebars in PHP easier than it is. Different templates for different posts. You can connect with him over LinkedIn.

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Fear is the mind-killer

Startup Lessons Learned

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. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Expo SF (May. for Harvard Business Revie.