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Comment on Recovery Retrospect by What Should You Do When Your Web Service Blows Up?

What Should You Do When Your Web Service Blows Up? — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:43:36 +0000

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Comment on The Strategic Importance of the Offensive Line by Karthik

Karthik — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 23:03:08 +0000

Nice post and perfectly crafted one. I think one more important factor which contributes to the completeness is in ensuring developer’s productivity.

Comment on Recovery Retrospect by Daryn

Daryn — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 00:41:44 +0000

Sucks, but it happens to everyone once, and sounds like you guys were able to recover okay and figure out how to handle things better in the future.

Comment on Announcing the BigDoor Declaration of Independence by Casinos

Casinos — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 16:27:19 +0000

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Comment on Venture Capital: A Love Story by Paramendra Bhagat

Paramendra Bhagat — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 12:55:26 +0000

Wow, what a story. I am in the process of trying to get to know Brad. This post helped me more than anything else I have read so far. Wow.

Comment on How to Succeed In A Startup by Kevin Lam

Kevin Lam — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 07:23:04 +0000

Great post Ben. Biggest lesson (and hardest learned) for me was to stay focused. As a fellow software engineer it’s so easy to get distracted and start poking around in this technology and that technology. The day I decided just to focus on X instead of X, Y, Z, A, B, C and 1, 2, 3 … our productivity and self-satisfaction shot up. Not to mention our product improved in quality by leaps and bounds.

Second biggest is to be customer-obsessed. As a software engineer it’s so easy to design and implement “cool technologies” the way we think we would like to use it and lose site of the actual end user, making them delighted to use your software. The typical approach is to design, implement and then shove it down the customer’s throats and see how they like it. Some of the most successful companies I know take the opposite approach and they find out what customers want even before they write a single line of code and then design around fulfilling the customer’s wants/needs.

Again, great post Ben.

–Kevin

Comment on Everything I need to know about APIs I learned from my Mom by Pavel

Pavel — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 01:44:23 +0000

this is some REALLY good advice.

Comment on I Can’t Accept Not Trying by Pavel

Pavel — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 00:23:22 +0000

wow, that’s a commercial to remember!

Comment on Venture Capital: A Love Story by Fun and Games with BigDoor

Fun and Games with BigDoor — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 11:51:47 +0000

[...] recently invested in a Seattle company called BigDoor Media. The founder/CEO Keith Smith wrote a wonderful love story about the deal which was picked up by the WSJ VC Dispatch in a post titled A Summer Romance [...]

Comment on Announcing the BigDoor Declaration of Independence by BigDoor’s First BigRound: $5 Million From Foundry Group « Blogging Tools

BigDoor’s First BigRound: $5 Million From Foundry Group « Blogging Tools — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 18:16:09 +0000

[...] founders openly acknowledge these negative associations in this lengthy but read-worthy blog post, published back in October [...]