How to Survive in a Startup Accelerator as a Technical Co-Founder

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Justin McCammon

Given at Code Camp San Diego, June 24th, 2012.

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HOW TO SURVIVE IN A
STARTUP ACCELERATOR AS
A TECHNICAL CO-FOUNDER

@JustinMcCammon

#SoCalCodeCamp #BestTalkEver
#Justin4President #Hashtags

Developer
User Experience (UX)
Strategy
Mobile

ME IN 60 SECONDS

90 Days
$20k
Ofﬁce Space
Mentorship
Demo Day

START ENGINE

++
Fast(er) Development Cycle
Deploy across platforms (maybe)
CSS Hardware Acceleration (3d transforms)
Lots of talent available

--
Debugging in XCode
Poor JS Performance in UIWebView
At the mercy of Apple “Web Standards”

++
Native performance
Hardware APIs
More stable environment

--
Lack of / expensive talent
Slower development cycle
Platform speciﬁc

Your product. Everything else.

NO SERIOUSLY, FOCUS

“The biggest thing that’s
different is that Facebook
is not about human-
computer interaction.”
-Chris Cox (VP of Product at FB)
(in the past 3 years Facebook’s
design team has grown from 20 to 90)

HOW TO MINIFY YOUR SOCIAL
LIFE WITHOUT DROPPING THE
FRIENDS TABLE

1. Launch at a big conference
2. Cut your dev time by 1/3
3. Cut out time for testing
4. Tell everyone
5. Leave zero time for ﬁxes

DOING IT WRONG

1. Launch quietly (and early)
2. Test
3. Test some more
4. Leave time to get it stable

DOING IT RIGHT

@JustinMcCammon
bit.ly/survivecodecamp

THANK YOU

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How to Survive in a Startup Accelerator as a Technical Co-Founder

1. HOW TO SURVIVE IN A STARTUP ACCELERATOR AS A TECHNICAL CO-FOUNDER @JustinMcCammon #SoCalCodeCamp #BestTalkEver #Justin4President #Hashtags

2. Developer User Experience (UX) Strategy Mobile ME IN 60 SECONDS

3. GONNABE

6. 90 Days $20k Ofﬁce Space Mentorship Demo Day START ENGINE

7. HTML 5 VS NATIVE

8. ++ Fast(er) Development Cycle Deploy across platforms (maybe) CSS Hardware Acceleration (3d transforms) Lots of talent available

9. -- Debugging in XCode Poor JS Performance in UIWebView At the mercy of Apple “Web Standards”

10. ++ Native performance Hardware APIs More stable environment

11. -- Lack of / expensive talent Slower development cycle Platform speciﬁc

12. THE GAPS IN PHONEGAP

13.

14. MENTOR WHIPLASH

15. Your product. Everything else. FOCUS

16. Your product. Everything else. NO SERIOUSLY, FOCUS

17. THERE’S NO CODING IN THE CHAMPAGNE ROOM

18. WHO THE #&@! NEEDS UX OR DESIGN?

19. “The biggest thing that’s different is that Facebook is not about human- computer interaction.” -Chris Cox (VP of Product at FB) (in the past 3 years Facebook’s design team has grown from 20 to 90)

20.

21. ALWAYS BE PITCHING

22. STEALTH MODE IS FOR LOSERS

23. HOW TO MINIFY YOUR SOCIAL LIFE WITHOUT DROPPING THE FRIENDS TABLE

24. LAUNCHING

25. 1. Launch at a big conference 2. Cut your dev time by 1/3 3. Cut out time for testing 4. Tell everyone 5. Leave zero time for ﬁxes DOING IT WRONG

26. 1. Launch quietly (and early) 2. Test 3. Test some more 4. Leave time to get it stable DOING IT RIGHT

27. DAY 91

28. @JustinMcCammon bit.ly/survivecodecamp THANK YOU

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