Hello, Startup: A Programmer’s Guide to Building Products, Technologies, and Teams

At this very moment, somewhere in the world, two programmers are sitting in a garage and creating our future, one line of code at a time. We are in the era of the high tech startup.

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 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.

If you’re at all interested in startups—whether you’re a programmer at the beginning of your career, a seasoned developer bored with the politics of large companies, a manager trying to figure out how to motivate your engineers, or just someone trying to figure out what this startup thing is all about—this book is for you. For more info, see http://www.hello-startup.net

Table of Contents

Part I. Products
Chapter 1. Why Startups
Chapter 2. Startup Ideas
Chapter 3. Product Design
Chapter 4. Data and Distribution

Part II. Technologies
Chapter 5. Picking a Tech Stack
Chapter 6. Clean Code
Chapter 7. Scalability
Chapter 8. Software Delivery

Part III. Teams
Chapter 9. Startup Culture
Chapter 10. Getting a Job at a Startup
Chapter 11. Hiring for your Startup
Chapter 12. Learning

Appendix A. Recommended Reading and References