On Starting a Startup

On Starting a Startup | Luigi Montanez

On Starting a Startup

We launched Upworthy 99 days ago on March 26. We started as a company two months earlier on January 30. There were various news stories written about us as the team was being built , as we launched , and a month after we launched . Read those if you’re not familiar with our story. What follows are some of my thoughts and reflections on the experience of starting a startup. Choosing a Technology The engineering team started out as a team of two: the CTO and me. I was anointed Founding Engineer. My background is in Ruby on Rails, but in recent years I’ve soured on it a bit. Eric, a colleague of mine when I was at the Sunlight Foundation started using Sinatra for all his projects, and he seemed quite happy. So after some evaluating and thinking, Tim and I settled on Padrino , a framework built on top of Sinatra that incorporates most of the best parts of Rails. At the end of ...

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@dirkgently » 12 Jul '12, 4pm
Good perspective on today's startup personality. And speed. RT @megancarriker: On Starting a Startup [link] via @ncho
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@heisenthought » 09 Jul '12, 12am
Great write up on @upworthy from an early engineer: [link] (also details how they bought a great domain name)
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Starting a Startup: The basics [link]
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@NareshdeSilva » 03 Jul '12, 7pm
[link] Enjoyed this little write up by @LuigiMontanez on the experience of getting an internet #startup off the ground
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@AmplifyPolicy » 03 Jul '12, 5pm
Inspiring post from @LuigiMontanez on launching @Upworthy [link]
@naku1s » 03 Jul '12, 5pm
Excellent post by the founders of Upworthy - On Starting a Startup [link] via Hacker News #startups
@advodude » 03 Jul '12, 5pm
Wanna read about the internal guts and history of Upworthy? Now's your chance. [link]
@ankurthakkar » 03 Jul '12, 5pm
On starting @upworthy, by founding engineer @LuigiMontanez. Many fine lessons here: [link] via @maegancarberry
@maegancarberry » 03 Jul '12, 5pm
Epic blog post on @Upworthy's first 99 days by our founding engineer @LuigiMontanez (who is brillz): [link]
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RT @LuigiMontanez: So Upworthy is nearing its first 100 days. I wrote up some thoughts on the experience so far: [link]
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RT @LuigiMontanez: So Upworthy is nearing its first 100 days. I wrote up some thoughts on the experience so far: [link]
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RT @LuigiMontanez: So Upworthy is nearing its first 100 days. I wrote up some thoughts on the experience so far: [link]