Let's Talk Start-Ups

Annals of the Homestarmy

Wednesday, January 5. 2011

Posted by The Mad Giggler in Personal Entry

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Let's Talk Start-Ups

I recently had a conversation with Radar about Mr. Ancient of Days and thought it resulted in an interesting idea.

Radar:
yeah, I would be curious to know which of the [ideas] he is referring to, since I know they have had several

The Mad Giggler:
I'm not sure
we didn't go into details on the project
we talked about I-N-S mostly
things we liked, things we didn't

Radar:
hopefully I was one of the likes.
[. . .]
it would be interesting to know what everyone thought were the good points about INS, from a strictly analytical perspective (minus the emotion)

The Mad Giggler:
yes, yes it would

So here's your chance to give feedback (as objectively as possible) on what you liked about I-N-S. Also if you have something you didn't like but have a possible solution for preventing or fixing that, I am interested in hearing that. My one concern is that this not turn into an attack post on You-Know-Who.

Things I liked about inter-net-solutions:

Guru Labs - There was a real culture of people trying to learn and share new technologies.

Open Workspace - Everyone worked closely together so there was lots of communication and for the most part, everyone was on the same page. The marketing guy wasn't out trying to sell a product that was completely different from what the programmers were doing.

Licensing - We didn't pirate software. We mostly used open-source technology, but when we needed something proprietary, we paid for it.

Code Review and Testing - We had a good system of code review and quality assurance in place (with one notable exception.)

Sense of Humor - We tried to build a product with a sense of humor (especially reflected in the help files.)

Calendaring - I liked our wall of deadlines - it's unfortunate that we were unrealistic and failed to adjust when things didn't go as planned. I'm not sure we need something with as much nitty gritty as we had, but I think a big "progress bar" somewhere in the office space can be motivating.

If I think of something else, I'll add it in the comments.

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