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Peter Nixey - The multiplicative slowdown effect of testing
http://peternixey.com/post/26074087096/the-multiplicative-slowdown-effect-of-testing
The multiplicative slowdown effect of testing. The multiplicative slowdown effect of testing. CEO of Coca-Cola funded, Copyin.com. Rails/Angular developer, Entrepreneur and YC alum. Previously built and sold Clickpass. I recently read an article. By Tom Blomfield which touched on something I’ve felt for a while. That is that tests can slow you down. Badly. It took me about eight months to write the first version of Pingpanel. Which was not a disastrously long dev time but still far too slow. You start fe...
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Peter Nixey - About me
http://peternixey.com/about
CEO of Coca-Cola funded, Copyin.com. Rails/Angular developer, Entrepreneur and YC alum. Previously built and sold Clickpass. See my LinkedIn Profile.
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Peter Nixey - The most important question in a startup: Am I...
http://peternixey.com/post/85818610418/the-most-important-question-in-a-startup-am-i-being
The most important question in a startup: Am I. The most important question in a startup: Am I being proactive? CEO of Coca-Cola funded, Copyin.com. Rails/Angular developer, Entrepreneur and YC alum. Previously built and sold Clickpass. This is taken from an email that I sent out to our team earlier today. We do not fail in unsuccessful attempts to take new ground, we fail in not making those attempts in the first place. Mdash; Peter Nixey (@peternixey) May 15, 2014. Our job is the search for that. W...
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Peter Nixey - Introducing Objectives, Goals and Strategies
http://peternixey.com/post/87881583678/introducing-objectives-goals-and-strategies
Introducing Objectives, Goals and Strategies. Introducing Objectives, Goals and Strategies. CEO of Coca-Cola funded, Copyin.com. Rails/Angular developer, Entrepreneur and YC alum. Previously built and sold Clickpass. As with my previous post. This is taken from an email I sent round to our team today. I’ve spoken about this with all of you individually now but I’d like to get it down and into Copyin. Rdquo; reports to give us a way to plot and chart our progress. Make sure that people stay active on Broj...
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Peter Nixey - Brojures can now be embedded
http://peternixey.com/post/89960266018/brojures-can-now-be-embedded
Brojures can now be embedded. Brojures can now be embedded. CEO of Coca-Cola funded, Copyin.com. Rails/Angular developer, Entrepreneur and YC alum. Previously built and sold Clickpass. Which while completely orthogonal to anything else I write about is kind of cool :).
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Peter Nixey - You are the DNA of your company. What you are it...
http://peternixey.com/post/108635883413/you-are-the-dna-of-your-company
You are the DNA of your company. What you are it. You are the DNA of your company. What you are it will become. CEO of Coca-Cola funded, Copyin.com. Rails/Angular developer, Entrepreneur and YC alum. Previously built and sold Clickpass. I think that my younger self thought I might find such characteristics in the people I hired (actually a younger me thought that he already had those characteristics). However Joseph Smarr. An amazing engineer once said to me that “it easy to hire down but very hard...
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Peter Nixey - How to build a product that takes over the world
http://peternixey.com/post/84924277578/how-to-build-a-product-that-takes-over-the-world
How to build a product that takes over the world. How to build a product that takes over the world. CEO of Coca-Cola funded, Copyin.com. Rails/Angular developer, Entrepreneur and YC alum. Previously built and sold Clickpass. I love this early interview with Mark Zuckerberg. I remember seeing it when it came out in 2005 and being impressed, even then, with how humble and pragmatic the vision for the service was. When asked, “Where are you taking Facebook? Rdquo; he gives the following answer:. I think tha...
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Peter Nixey - Experienced founders feel their company’s pain....
http://peternixey.com/post/115682645428/experienced-founders-feel-their-companys-pain
Experienced founders feel their company’s pain. Experienced founders feel their company’s pain. Inexperienced founders feel only their own. CEO of Coca-Cola funded, Copyin.com. Rails/Angular developer, Entrepreneur and YC alum. Previously built and sold Clickpass. Stress has a similar effect on us. It’s a stimulus that causes us to get work done and to get it down fast. We tend to exert it on ourselves and others to create a discomfort that gets things done. Stress is not nice but like ...Both founders w...
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Peter Nixey - How to be a great software developer
http://peternixey.com/post/83510597580/how-to-be-a-great-software-developer
How to be a great software developer. How to be a great software developer. CEO of Coca-Cola funded, Copyin.com. Rails/Angular developer, Entrepreneur and YC alum. Previously built and sold Clickpass. This is a very long piece, much longer than I would normally write on any subject. I have edited it back but on sending it to friends to read they agreed that there was no one bit that should be cut. I hope that you feel the same. Or are there perhaps more fundamental roots that you can put down? It is all ...
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