The Case for the Fat Startup. [This blog post was originally published on All Things Digital on March 17, 2010.] Much has been written and said about the current economic downturn and the resulting lessons on how to run high-technology companies. Quite famously, Sequoia Capital, the premier venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, held a mandatory all-CEO meeting in fall 2008 during which it advised them to “Cut spending. Cut fat. Preserve capital.” The presentation catalyzed a movement. On the one hand, it is a fact that capital invested is negatively correlated with returns in the venture capital industry. So what’s a start-up to do? Here is my central argument. What the hell do I know? Al Pacino couldn’t be no gangsta, DeNiro in ‘Casino’ he no gangstaWanna be, wanna see, wan’ get a shoveldig Tookie up n*&%^!
At this point, some of you are asking yourselves, “What the hell does Ben know? Note that the Nasdaq Index is very highly correlated to the start-up funding environment. How did we do it? No, we didn’t. Lire et après ? Using the Rake Build Language. Rake is a build language, similar in purpose to make and ant.
Like make and ant it's a Domain Specific Language, unlike those two it's an internal DSL programmed in the Ruby language. In this article I introduce rake and describe some interesting things that came out of my use of rake to build this web site: dependency models, synthesized tasks, custom build routines and debugging the build script. I've been using Ruby extensively now for many years. I like its terse but powerful syntax, and its generally well-written libraries.
A couple of years ago I converted much of my web site generation from XSLT to Ruby and have been utterly happy with that change. If you are a regular reader of mine, you'll not be surprised to know that my entire web site is built automatically. I originally used ant - the build environment popular in the Java world - to do this as that fitted well with Java XSL processors. In my early days with Rake, I used it in a similar way to how I'd used ant.
Rake Tasks. « L’actif de la start-up est l’apprentissage qu’elle fait de ses fausses routes » XEnvoyer cet article par e-mail « L’actif de la start-up est l’apprentissage qu’elle fait de ses fausses routes » Nouveau ! Pas le temps de lire cet article ? Classez le dans vos favoris en cliquant sur l’étoile. Vous pourrez le lire ultérieurement (ordinateur, tablette, mobile) en cliquant sur « votre compte » Fermer Vu d'en haut L’expérience d’un serial-entrepreneur sur les nouveaux modèles de start up et leurs méthodes d’incubation. “Une start-up est une phase temporaire vécue par un groupe de personnes qui testent des choses jusqu’à ce que cela fonctionne à petite échelle, puis qui passent à une phase de “scaling” afin d’en faire une grande entreprise.” Les jeunes pousses françaises, qui ne ressemblent pas forcément à leurs consœurs de la Silicon Valley, évoluent beaucoup selon cet animateur d’un blog très lu sur les tendances du microcosme.
Revers de la médaille, ce morcellement est aussi synonyme de complexité pour l’utilisateur. Il nous manquait notre Michaël Dell. Par Julien Tarby.