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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

If youre trying to design an architecture to maximize agility, how can that work if some people are working in TDD and others not? Platform selection and technical design - if your business strategy is to create a low-burn, highly iterative lean startup, youd better be using foundational tools that make that easy rather than hard.

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Lessons Learned: The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time

Startup Lessons Learned

The new design improved on the old one in several ways, but these improvements didnt translate all the way through the funnel. Usually, I think that means youve lost some good aspect of the old design. The designers might be telling you that the new design looks much better than the old one, and thats probably true.

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Lessons Learned on Mashable today

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, January 2, 2009 Lessons Learned on Mashable today I had the good fortune to be asked to write a guest post over at Mashable , which is running today, called HOW TO: Raise Money in a Down Economy. January 2, 2009 11:54 AM Daniel Davie said. January 2, 2009 4:48 PM Chris Desouza said.

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Lessons Learned: Lean hiring tips

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 19, 2009 Lean hiring tips In preparing for the strategy series panel this week, I have been doing some thinking about costs. January 21, 2009 6:39 AM Kevin Merritt said. January 21, 2009 1:19 PM Jon Bischke said. January 23, 2009 4:13 PM TS said. Another terrific post, Eric.

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Lessons Learned: Greasemonkey compiler

Startup Lessons Learned

I know some of those compilers are no longer available (some are hosted, others are not), so I took the liberty of putting up a copy of the PHP Greasemonkey Compiler. April 13, 2009 12:40 PM Gaborsaid. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica.

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Waves of technology platforms

Startup Lessons Learned

Meanwhile, we were building our app in PHP, using a generic DB driver and mysql, "for the time being." Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? Expo SF (May.

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Lessons Learned: Three freemium strategies

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, January 27, 2009 Three freemium strategies Im excited to see so much attention being paid to freemium businesses lately. January 28, 2009 1:46 AM Anonymoussaid. January 28, 2009 1:46 AM do good said. January 28, 2009 1:54 AM startupcfo said. That should be 5% by the way. Great post!