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The Value of Design to Startups
- rgrieselhuber 17y ago"This is an edited version of an article that previously ran on DaveMcClure.com." I'm guessing that "pruned" is a more accurate description than "edited." Great article, though.
- patio11 17y agoOriginal version here: http://www.500hats.typepad.com/500blogs/2010/01/startups-vcs-eat-your-own-damn-dogfood.html http://www.500hats.typepad.com/500blogs/2010/01/startups-vcs... The editing process apparently stripped it of some of damn-wretched bloodletting tricolored shamen-with-ransom-notes charm. (That might sound snarky but I actually kind of like the metaphor. The refusal to use rudimentary measures like e.g. A/B testing because "it is hard and anyway I know what I'm doing" makes us look less like doctors and more like physicians leeching patients because, hey, leeches were good enough for Dad. Or, to use a modern analogy, we look like doctors who will not use checklists because they're too smart to ever kill anyone because they didn't follow a checklist.)
- davidw 17y agoSo... he's basically saying that a great user experience, as well as good marketing, is the barrier to entry, rather than great engineering?
- ohashi 17y agoIt follows nicely on that posterous v tumblr post a couple weeks ago. Design matters. I guess the question becomes how much? And that probably varies based on industry and who you are competing against. Do you have to be amazing or better than everyone else?
- Towle_ 17y agoUnsurprising that this article earned four (now five) comments from HN readers, whereas "lisp vs. language x" articles merit dozens.
- extension 17y agoPeople think you need your right leg to walk but it's the left leg that's really important.