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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? That means knowing whats written and whats not, what the architecture can and cant support, and how long it would take to build something new. Thats more than just drawing architecture diagrams, though.

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Lessons Learned: Just-In-Time Scalability

Startup Lessons Learned

We wanted an agile approach that would allow us to build our software architecture as we needed it, without downtime, but also without large amounts of up-front cost. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

Startup Lessons Learned

We talk about taking advantages of the incredible agility offered by modern web architecture for extremely rapid deployment, etc. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. Can this methodology be used for startups that are not exclusively about software?

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Reincubate: Blog: Chief Technology Officer job description (for web, start-up or corporate)

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Apache with Django and mod_wsgi » Posted by Aidan, 6 th July 2009. Hold responsibility for IT governance of platform & services, including telecommunications, networks, infrastructure, engineering, media, and architecture. Choose platform and architecture for prototypes and V1 projects, and provide cost-effective 80/20 solutions.

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Why Trying To Find A Technical Co-Founder Will Almost Always Fail

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Enterprise Architecture (5). December 2009 (3). November 2009 (3). October 2009 (8). September 2009 (7). August 2009 (18). July 2009 (64). June 2009 (2). May 2009 (8). April 2009 (14). March 2009 (3). February 2009 (1). And… what else?”). Categories.

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Waves of technology platforms

Startup Lessons Learned

You dont need to invent a new architecture, and you dont need to even build your architecture up-front. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. Were in a new wave of platform evolution. 1 comments: flixsterwidgettest said. yeah, its awesome.

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Cracking The Code: Getting the most of your online marketing: the In.

Cracking the Code

Getting the most of your online marketing: the In & Out of SEM/SEO. ► 2009. (9). on a scale of 1-4). on a scale of 1-4). ► 03/07 - 03/14. (1). State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment. ► 02/21 - 02/28. (1). A funny perspective on Google innovation. ► 01/10 - 01/17. (1). Happy New Year 2010!