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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 30, 2008 What does a startup CTO actually do? What does your Chief Technology Officer do all day? So what does CTO mean, besides just "technical founder who really cant manage anyone?" I always assumed I wouldnt manage anybody. They might do anything !

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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

(Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. But I managed a few "good learning experiences" before throwing myself full-bore into IMVU. So much for timing.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. So far, I have found "lean startup" works better with the entrepreneurs Ive talked to than "agile startup" or even "extreme startup.") Of course, many startups are capital efficient and generally frugal.

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Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2010

To shed some light, I talked with kaChing , a destination that enables individual investors to find outstanding money managers to manage their money. kaChing launched a virtual portfolio management game on Facebook in January 2008 and a similar version shortly thereafter on kaChing.com.

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Lessons Learned: Just-In-Time Scalability

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

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. You can also download our presentation, " Just-In-Time Scalability: Agile Methods to Support Massive Growth." Expo SF (May.

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Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

In addition to presenting the IMVU case, we tried for the first time to do an overview of a software engineering methodology that integrates practices from agile software development with Steves method of Customer Development. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Expo SF (May.

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Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

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? Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

San Francisco

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Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your code right now

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, September 10, 2008 Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your code right now Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your code right now A great checklist of techniques and tools for making your development more agile, written from a Rail perspective. Expo SF (May.

Software Review

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The Lean Startup Book Tour

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Tuesday, September 13 - San Francisco TechCrunch Disrupt It all begins at TechCrunch Disrupt. By learning to be rapidly responsive and agile. Monday, September 19 - Toronto My only Canadian stop on the tour is in Toronto at the Rotman School of Management. Tuesday, September 27 - San Francisco Home, home again.

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Lessons Learned: Ideas. Code. Data. Implement. Measure. Learn

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Labels: agile , listening to customers 3comments: hauteroute said. 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? April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

San Francisco

San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean DC

Lessons Learned: A new version of the Joel Test (draft)

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

I am convinced one of Joel Spolskys lasting contributions to the field of managing software teams will turn out to be the Joel Test , a checklist of 12 essential practices that you could use to rate the effectiveness of a software product development team. Please leave feedback!) Can you make a build in one step? Youd better. Expo SF (May.

Software Review

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Andrew Chen: Growing renewable audiences

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

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? Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

Audience

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Lessons Learned: Test-Driven Development as andon cord

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 1, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 1, 2008 Test-Driven Development as andon cord You cannot control what you cannot see, and the hardest part of managing software projects is that the final product is so intangible. In almost all Agile Development systems, thousands of automated tests are run against every change to the software.

San Francisco

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How to listen to customers, and not just the loud people

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

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? Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

San Francisco

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

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

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? Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

San Francisco

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On deployment

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

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? Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

San Francisco

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Nine Webcasts to Learn From

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

If you missed these when they went out live, we encourage you to watch them now , as they lay a strong foundation for The Lean Startup Conference , December 9 -11 in San Francisco—less than two weeks from today. So if we are the managers, if we are the leaders, then we have to look in the mirror. We changed the work.”

Lean

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Seth Godin: How often should you publish?

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

but its really about how to manage your effort between what he calls the frontlist and backlist. 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.

San Francisco

San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean DC

Marc Prensky's Weblog: Cell Phones in Class

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

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? Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

San Francisco

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Waves of technology platforms

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

So did I when I finally found myself building an app with real scalability, a few years later, but a combination of our just-in-time scalability technique and great open source scaling tools, made it manageable. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

San Francisco

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How to Usability Test your Site for Free

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

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? Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

San Francisco

San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean DC

Lessons Learned: Greasemonkey compiler

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 6, 2008

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? Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

San Francisco

San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean DC

Lessons Learned: Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you?

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

I originally thought I might get some development process tips (I manage developers), but I find that Im really enjoying your business tips (SEM, listening to customers, etc.). Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Posted item in Facebook news feed.

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Not crossing the chasm

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

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? Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

San Francisco

San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean DC

Out of the Crisis #3, Jen Pahlka and Raylene Yung on creating the U.S. Digital Response

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

Deputy Chief Technology Officers Cori Zarek and Ryan Panchadsaram to help all levels of government with COVID-19 response and delivery of services. Deputy Chief Technology Officer in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy from 2013–2014, where she founded the United States Digital Service.

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7 Highlights from Lean Startup Week

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Editor’s Note: We wrapped up the 2017 Lean Startup Week in San Francisco just a few weeks ago, and we’re excited to share with you some of the best lessons learned in entrepreneurship and corporate innovation. For example, if a chief executive officer manages the daily operation, a chief entrepreneur heads up innovation efforts.

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Pivot, don't jump to a new vision

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 22, 2009

Each has its own iterative process: customer development and agile development respectively. At this meeting, we would present our goals for the cycle, all the raw results wed managed to collect, and our conclusions about what was next. As the CTO/VP Engineering, I was the worst offender. Expo SF (May.

San Francisco

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment Agile

Fear is the mind-killer

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 7, 2009

I tried to make sure we always gave the same answer: "if you manage to take the site down, thats our fault for making it too easy. Im an ex-Googler, and now a CTO of a small company with lots of talented people ([link] I discovered your site not long ago, and I am learning a lot from it. What if I take the site down?!" Expo SF (May.

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Lessons Learned: The hacker's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

In a few cases, they are clearly smart people in a bad situation, and Ive written about their pain in The product managers lament and The engineering managers lament. The last thing you need is a manager telling you how to do your job. If youve ever been abused by a bad manager in your career, its easy to become traumatized.

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Micro-Multinationals, And How They Will Define Our Era

YoungUpstarts

JULY 30, 2015

They enjoy the same advantages as other SMEs, such as the agility to respond quickly to market changes, a collaborative DNA that fosters innovation, and the absence of the institutional inertia that often plagues larger organizations [7]. They might look more like Vast.com, a big data solutions provider for homebuyers. 3] Varian, H.,

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Lessons Learned: SEM on five dollars a day

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

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? Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

SEM

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How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

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? Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

Distribution

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You don't need as many tools as you think

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

We had all the tools in place but we didn’t actually practice agile development. No fancy tools needed here — it’s about the mentality, attention to detail, and the actions that foster agile development, not the tools & systems you set up in place to facilitate this. While simple, it is easy to manage.

San Francisco

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Lessons Learned: Great open source scalability tools from Danga

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 5, 2008

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? Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

Open Source

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Lessons Learned: Q&A with an actual reader

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

It solves the problem of communicating between a small group of managers, say twenty and a large group of users, say ten thousand. On the other hand, we provide a management dashboard showing peoples expectations of success for different projects along with explaination for why something will or wont work. Expo SF (May.

San Francisco

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC

Thoughts on scientific product development

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Someone has managed to convince themselves that they have to do their big architecture change in one fell swoop. 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?

Product Development

Product Development Developer San Francisco Product

Lessons Learned: The lean startup comes to Stanford

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 28, 2008

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? Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

Lean

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Finding a Technical Partner for Your Startup

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OCTOBER 23, 2010

Web Startup Lessons Advice from a CTO and Entrepreneur Home About Finding a Technical Partner for Your Startup Today I received an inquiry from a student at an Ivy League university who wants to launch a web startup. If you’re in Sacramento, go to the Sacramento Ruby Meetup and go to the San Francisco Ruby Meetup as well.

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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

In my role as a CTO, Ive always tried to choose the right tool for the right job. I am CTO of a SaaS vendor, and we use PHP. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Given that startups depend on superstars to survive, why stick with PHP? I certainly dont. January 17, 2009 1:37 AM Anonymoussaid.

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

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APRIL 24, 2012

And.NET’s languages (C#, IronPython, managed C++, etc.) The VAST majority of what you’re dealing with (HTTP, MIME, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, relational databases, page template, authentication, session management, caching, etc.) Do you manage to hire any programmers in the first place. are also reasonable and flexible.

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Lessons Learned: About the author

Trending Sources

Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot

Lessons Learned: Just-In-Time Scalability

Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your code right now

The Lean Startup Book Tour

Lessons Learned: Ideas. Code. Data. Implement. Measure. Learn

Lessons Learned: A new version of the Joel Test (draft)

Andrew Chen: Growing renewable audiences

Lessons Learned: Test-Driven Development as andon cord

How to listen to customers, and not just the loud people

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

On deployment

Nine Webcasts to Learn From

Seth Godin: How often should you publish?

Marc Prensky's Weblog: Cell Phones in Class

Waves of technology platforms

How to Usability Test your Site for Free

Lessons Learned: Greasemonkey compiler

Lessons Learned: Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you?

Not crossing the chasm

Out of the Crisis #3, Jen Pahlka and Raylene Yung on creating the U.S. Digital Response

7 Highlights from Lean Startup Week

Pivot, don't jump to a new vision

Fear is the mind-killer

Lessons Learned: The hacker's lament

Micro-Multinationals, And How They Will Define Our Era

Lessons Learned: SEM on five dollars a day

How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone

You don't need as many tools as you think

Lessons Learned: Great open source scalability tools from Danga

Lessons Learned: Q&A with an actual reader

Thoughts on scientific product development

Lessons Learned: The lean startup comes to Stanford

Finding a Technical Partner for Your Startup

Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

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

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