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Startup Founder: Managing Fear

January 9th, 2010 · No Comments

I’m feeling immense waves of fear as we move to a beta release for http://www.tweettronics.com. Some of the fear is irrational, and some of it rational. The rational stuff I handle through traditional risk management: identify the fear, convert the fear into clear risk statement (So, the fear that our system will be […]

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Testing the Frontend: Automating Web & Javascript Testing

October 7th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Testing javascript heavy, web frontends remains a hard problem in software development. Everyone wants to do it in order to be agile, but few if none can really do an ideal job of it. Some key reasons they want to automate are:

allow developers to quickly smoke test their work before they commit it

support extensive, […]

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Tags: Project Management · Startups · Technical

Limitations of Trac

October 7th, 2008 · No Comments

For one of the startups I’ve been involved with we used Trac as a quick way to support “development”. But Trac is very limited and problematic. We choose because it’s free, and a number of successful opensource projects use it. It works pretty well for supporting developers and an open environment, […]

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Perspectives in Technical Due Diligence Consulting

May 26th, 2008 · No Comments

The key to performing a technical due diligence is an understanding of the business goals that are driving the audit. To perform the audit well requires discipline to listen and the knowledge to ask the right questions that will uncover what is going on. A simple methodology is helpful as a guide to […]

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Tags: Business Zeitgeist / Web 2.0 · Project Management · Startups

Commitment in Early Stage Startups

April 15th, 2008 · No Comments

We’re working with a rag-tag fleet of development folks: programmers, admins, designers and so forth. Amongst the challenges is that as we bootstrap our development it is a huge challenge for the folks we’re working with to be as committed as we are. For many of them this work is part-time and they […]

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Tags: Business Zeitgeist / Web 2.0 · Project Management · Startups