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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

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. But I think in a lean startup, the development methodology is too important to be considered "just management." I dont think so.

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The curse of prevention

Startup Lessons Learned

If not, maybe an investment in that direction would be more warranted. If not, maybe an investment in that direction would be more warranted. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, Expo SF (May. for Harvard Business Revie. for Har.

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25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time

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October 3rd, 2010 the Chubby Team 48 Comments. We did find some specific industry verticals where the model works (some high schools, some boxing and mixed martial arts events, some exclusive conferences), but not enough to warrant a large market and an independent company. Quora says: October 4, 2010 at. Investors Companies.

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The cardinal sin of community management

Startup Lessons Learned

There was also a litany of errors made in determining which developers had in fact passed UFI products into the catalog warranting their punishment. Loyalty is not something that people distribute to all and any that they come into contact with regardless of warrant. Stephanie February 14, 2010 11:58 AM Anonymoussaid.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

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You can measure this yourself: go to any list of startups, maybe look at YCombinator’s recent graduate class , or Scoble’s list of picks for 2010 , or Sequoia’s list of seed companies — or go find a list you like better. December 2010. November 2010. October 2010. September 2010.

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