Lean startup thinker Eric Ries: "don't be in a hurry to get big, be in a hurry to have a great product"

Eric Schonfeld is currently working on TechCrunch as co-author. He joined in 2007 and based in New York. Schonfeld oversees the editorial content of the site, selects and edits guest posts, conference program helps Disrupt and CrunchUps, produces some TCTV shows and daily wrote in a blog post. He is also the father of three. ? Read More

Each tech founder thinks he or she works lean startup. But what does this mean exactly? In a video interview above, Eric Ries, who coined the term Lean startup and is the author of upcoming book of the same name, explains his theory of learning by a small number of the first clients to enhance and improve your product before exposing it to a wider audience. "Don't be in a hurry to get big", he sums up the results at the end of our conversation, "to be in a hurry to have a great product."

RIES argues that the greatest advantage of the entrepreneur is their obscurity. If your first product sucks, at least not too many people will know about it. But this is the best time to make mistakes, provided that you learn from them, to make the product better. "It is inevitable that the first product is going to be bad in a sense," he said. Lean startup methodology is to systematically test product ideas company.

Fail early and often. "Our goal is to learn as soon as possible," he says. He also claims that launches start their products quietly until they figure out what clients really want. We discuss how color could use these recommendations. RIES also gives me a crash course in some of the more popular Lean startup, terms such as "minimum viable product", "product market fit" or "construction measure know feedback loops."

But you can build lean run in bubble (if we still have one)? "This is even more important," he says, go meat, when each throwing money at "the success of the theatre and to demonstrate vanity metric. "Vanity metrics are the numbers that you want to post on TechCrunch to make your competitors feel bad," he says. Don't believe their own propaganda, or run your company on these metrics. Useful metrics that actually allow you to understand what drives your growth are much more important.

RIES of lean startups in writes startup lessons and will serve to break the SF.

Eric Ries is the author of the book, [Lean Startup] (http://theleanstartup.com). Previously, he was one of the founders and served as the Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. He is the co-author of ...

Read More

View the original article here

Funded YC interview Street makes it easy to find great programmers

Jason Kincaid currently works as a writer at TechCrunch. He grew up in Danville, California and later moved to Los Angeles in Los Angeles, California, where he studied biology with a minor in "society and genetics". You can contact him at jkincaidtc@gmail.com (it has other addresses too, so don't worry if you have another). ? Read More

Talk to any tech company and they will tell you that the hiring of quality programmers is an incredibly difficult task — smaller companies often have a difficult time in front of the best candidates and big and hot "inundated with applications, many of them to sub par.

Interview with street is a new startup funded by Y Combinator, which set out to fix both of these problems — and for the preservation of all participating a lot of time. This service, which goes out of beta today, makes it easy for tech companies to verify applicants ' skills through the puzzles (and this makes it easy for potential applicants to find out who's hiring).

Head to the site and you'll see that it is divided into two sections: one for "challenges" and another for the "Inductee". First feeding for engineers looking to land jobs at companies such as Dropbox, Facebook or Airbnb. Log in and you will be able to take one of the three coding problems that you are going to finish, using a Web-based IDE (you can copy and paste the code into your application if you want). Test Web code supports C, C++, C #, Java, PHP, Python, Ruby, Haskell, MySQL, and Bash and generates the results immediately.

Click the second tab and you'll be part of the site that directed the recruiters. Here companies can create their own tests, and they can manage their dashboard.

Now coding puzzles on the street interview is pretty standard, but co-founder Vivek Ravisankar said that in the future, the company wants to offer more testing "real" — things like application deployment for ARM or Twitter API integration features of the iPhone about Ravisankar explained that programming puzzles, promising engineers to participate in the process of their implementation is often not applied directly to the role, they would fill and street interviews wants to change this situation.

At the start of the interview Street offers three puzzles to solve, and it will add more in the coming weeks. The site will soon also allowing companies to upload your own Puzzles (for example, Facebook can upload their own puzzles and test cases that all potential candidates would have to go).

Of course many tech companies already offer puzzles for potential claimants. But Ravisankar said that the process of a typical presentation of their clunky, with applicants, attachments that must be manually inspected by a mechanic. Interview Street automates this process. Until the service is already used by major companies, including Facebook and a bevy of Y Combinator alums like Dropbox, Airbnb and Justin.TV.

The service offers 30 day free trial. After that, the plans start at $ 99 per month, with pricing, scale up depending on how much candidates taking test (performance plans also allow you to take advantage of the "live mode" playback, so you can see the thought process/coding and labelling trait white).

Competitors to street interviews include CodeEval (described here) and Gild (described here).

Interviewstreet helps you create customized programming tests (in any language) and the evaluation of candidates on the basis of their programming skills before the interview. We've built ...

Read More

View the original article here

The great wall LED to the Hungarian Festival

Devin Coldewey is a Seattle-based writer and photographer. He wrote for the TechCrunch network since 2007. Some posts, it would like you to read: the perils of externalization of knowledge | Generation I | Surveillant society | Select two | Frame war | User manifesto | Our great sin his personal site — coldewey. cc. ? Read More

I know this is more or less just a PR is sponsored by Vodafone, but this doesn't stop me from wanting to have one of the towers of these LEDs, here in Seattle. This installation at the Sziget Festival in Budapest, Hungary, and participants will have the opportunity to play an oversized shoot em up is called rocket bullet storm, Nemesys games.

No joke, I'm a sucker for this kind of games and playing in crazy situations as with Hungarian rock blaring in the background sounds like a nice break from blogging. Apparently the screens covered 250 square meters, total, wraps around the columns, and so on. It looks like the game played inside and displayed on the street, though. This is reminiscent of the plants that they use in hardcore competitive games, but a bit more festive.

The Festival takes place from 8 to 15 and looks like it has quite a strong ruler. If you are in the area, drop in and give us your impressions on this fun to watch.

View the original article here