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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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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

I hope to show why lean and agile techniques actually reduce the negative impacts of technical debt and increase our ability to take advantage of its positive effects. Startups especially can benefit by using technical debt to experiment, invest in process, and increase their product development leverage.

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Disruptors

Hearpreneur

One of the most important lessons entrepreneurs can learn from Dropbox is to adopt the lean start-up methodology and start. Moreover, I like inspiring myself with interesting online business models and Wikipedia is a great example of a user-generated content-based website. Thanks to Fletcher Wimbush, The Hire Talent ! #2-

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Lessons Learned: Refactoring yourself out of business

Startup Lessons Learned

The engineering team has decided its reached a breaking point, and is taking several weeks to bring it up to modern standards, including unit tests, getting started with continuous integration , and a new MVC architecture. On the other, they already have a team fully engaged on making their product architecture better.

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Convergent Technologies: War Story 1 – Selling with Sports Scores.

Steve Blank

They couldn’t keep up with the fast product development times that were enabled by using standard microprocessors. So their management teams were insisting that they OEM (buy from someone else) these products. Convergent Technologies was one of those OEM suppliers. I was surprised to see that they were in the room.

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: Akamai

Seeing Both Sides

The Lean Start-Up movement, as exemplified in Eric Ries' book The Lean Start-Up, has appropriately focused a great deal of attention on the hard decisions and techniques required to create a company from nothing. This is the magic of what Akamai and other multi-product companies achieve as they scale. How did Akamai do it? .

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

it really doesn’t matter if you’re not in SV, i think that’s what the author is trying to say [link] tenthings what he’s saying is he partnered up with engineers, not with other business grads/entrepreneurs, and that’s what’s important to have a team that can produce the product not just market it.