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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? March 23, 2010 2:05 PM Anonymoussaid. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? But along the way, something strange happened. Expo SF (May.

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The curse of prevention

Startup Lessons Learned

In other words, a principled way to combine agility with stability. Imagine you hear from an engineer that they are worried that a certain payment subsystem is unreliable, and will therefore double-charge some customers. If not, maybe an investment in that direction would be more warranted.

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The cardinal sin of community management

Startup Lessons Learned

I agree that listening and communicating is a key to success, but customer development can only do so much. There was also a litany of errors made in determining which developers had in fact passed UFI products into the catalog warranting their punishment. Stephanie February 14, 2010 11:58 AM Anonymoussaid.

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