Librería Portfolio

This book is the ´Hello, World´ tutorial for building products, technologies, and teams in a startup environment. It´s based on the experiences of the author, Yevgeniy (Jim) Brikman, as well as interviews with programmers from some of the most successful startups of the last decade, including Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, GitHub, Stripe, Instagram, AdMob, Pinterest, and many others.

Hello, Startup is a practical, how-to guide that consists of three parts: Products, Technologies, and Teams. Although at its core, this is a book for programmers, by programmers, only Part II (Technologies) is significantly technical, while the rest should be accessible to technical and non-technical audiences alike.

If you're at all interested in startups-whether you're a programmer at the beginning of your career, a seasoned developer bored with large company politics, or a manager looking to motivate your engineers-this book is for you.



Products
Chapter 1Why Startups
The age of the tech startup
What is a tech startup?
Why you should work at a startup
Why you shouldn't work at a startup
Recap
Chapter 2Startup Ideas
Where ideas come from
Validation
Recap
Chapter 3Product Design
Design
The MVP
Recap
Chapter 4Data and Distribution
Data
Distribution
Recap
Technologies
Chapter 5Choosing a Tech Stack
Thinking about tech stacks
Evolving the tech stack
Build in-house, buy commercial, or use open source?
Choosing a programming language
Choosing a server-side framework
Choosing a database
Recap
Chapter 6Clean Code
Code is for people
Code layout
Naming
Error handling
Don't Repeat Yourself (DRY)
Single Responsibility Principle (SRP)
Functional programming
Loose coupling
High cohesion
Comments
Refactoring
Recap
Chapter 7Scalability
Scaling a startup
Scaling coding practices
Scaling performance
Recap
Chapter 8Software Delivery
Done means delivered
Manual delivery: a horror story
Build
Deployment
Monitoring
Recap
Teams
Chapter 9Startup Culture
Actions, not words
Core Ideology
Organizational design
Hiring and promotions
Motivation
The office
Remote work
Communication
Process
Recap
Chapter 10Getting a Job at a Startup
Finding a startup job
Nailing the interview
How to evaluate and negotiate a job offer
Recap
Chapter 11Hiring for Your Startup
Startups are about people
Who to hire
Finding great candidates
The interview
Making an offer
Recap
Chapter 12Learning
Principles of learning
Learning techniques
Lessons learned
Recap
Appendix Recommended Reading and References
Recommended reading
Reference list