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Making Sure You Are Ready to Begin Building Your MVP

SoCal CTO

I'm going to be looking at aspects like: Things to consider before building your MVP Features often overlooked when documenting an MVP for developers Understanding important metrics you want to measure Risks and challenges in developing an MVP. It should be a fun evening with lots of interesting conversation. What's going to go wrong?

CTO Coach 219
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Framework Benchmarks Round 16

TechEmpower

Now in its fifth year, the TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks project has another official round of results available. 26 languages, 431 frameworks, 1774 benchmarks; and the knock on benefits to the the users of any framework that actively participates are enormous - you are truly doing great work! It's lost in the noise.

Framework 377
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Timing and why we’re all VCs

TechCrunch LA

Start writing down predictions about people, companies, and markets. We get at least a dozen at the TC offices every week, which is why we write about books so often around here these days. Startups either get three dozen term sheets or none at all, since every firm is walking around with the same frameworks and metrics in their head.

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How Startups Can Figure Out Sales: Amos Schwartzfarb, TechStars

socalTECH

I didn't really set out to write a book. Amos Schwartzfarb: My hope is that, at a bare minimum people read it and say, there is a framework here I can use, to use data to test whether what I believe is going to be a company is true. Amos Schwartzfarb: To the degree that it's possible, always use quantifiable metrics.

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Pragmatism with Flavor

TechEmpower

Focusing on the metrics that ultimately drive the business, often the bottom line, has provided a reality check, a counter-weight to the desire to consume all new technologies. You're in the thick of it and about to write a small chunk of server-side code. but getting work done requires shutting down the news feed and writing code.

Web 200
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So What is The Right Level of Burn Rate for a Startup These Days?

Both Sides of the Table

It’s a very personal topic and I’d like to offer you a framework to decide for yourself, based on the following factors: How Long is it Taking to Raise Capital at Your Stage in the Market? If they’re only 1 of 5 they might rather just take the write off. And recaps hurt founders so often people just avoid doing them.

Startup 150
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EnumSet and EnumMap

TechEmpower

If you write a lot of Java code, then you should read that book and follow its advice. We're all using enum types here and there, we're all using the collections framework. The iterable.spliterator() method is critical when it comes to stream performance, but writing a custom Spliterator from scratch is a non-trivial task.

Java 330