In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives

This past weekend I finished listening to In The Plex. This book is just awesome. If you have been in web development since before google existed & been following google, you must read this book. For me, it was like taking a stroll down memory lane, filling the gaps of my knowledge. Whether because it was something that I didn’t have the time to follow or it was very much a behind the door event,...

Start Lessons learned notes: Part#8

3:50 pm dropbox case study How we build things? We start with great people. Hiring fewer but better people reduces need for coordination. Less things to share among less people. Using etherpad to plan design with trac Taken point, you don’t need an incredible infrastructure to coordinate. Simpler is better. small loosely-couple teams formed from a 25-person engineering team. each team is locally...

Start Lessons learned notes: Part#7

3:00pm Keynote: Steve Blank Most of the following is online @ http://www.slideshare.net/sblank/when-the-boardroom-is-bits-052111 #1 MBA is based on 300+ years of biz #2 Tech Entrepreneurship + Venture capital ~ 50 years old Startup are smaller versions of large companies oops, not true #3 Large companies execute biz models, startup search for biz model #4 a Startup is a temporary organization designed to...

Start Lessons learned notes: Part#6

2pm Design + Lean Startup = Lean UX We believe that people like <customer type> have a need for (or problems doing) <action/need/behavior>. We will know we have succeeded when <quantitative outcome>, or <qualitative outcome>, which will contribute to <KPI/success for our company> todo go to a lean UX meetup recruit UX and cut them some slack learn to do it yourself train together and...

Start Lessons learned notes: Part#5

11:50am IGN entertainment case study “BigCo lessons learned” 5 whys make sure that you do something about it. Takes practice to do them well Somebody needs to be in charge/responsible of the process. Watch live video from Startup Lessons Learned on...