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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? If not, whos going to insist we switch to free and open source software? Thats more than just drawing architecture diagrams, though. But along the way, something strange happened.

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

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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. Past contribution to one or more Open Source projects.

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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. Waves of technology platforms The lean startup Customer Development Engineering Greasemonkey compiler Great open source scalability tools from Danga Ideas.

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Waves of technology platforms

Startup Lessons Learned

Our open source counterparts who did solve the scale problem, had some serious hardware costs to deal with. 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.

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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. SEM on five dollars a day Andrew Chen: Growing renewable audiences Marc Prensky's Weblog: Cell Phones in Class A new version of the Joel Test (draft) Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your c.

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

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Enterprise Architecture (5). open source. Some techies have business sense; most generally don’t have a highly developed one. It can be hard to sort the wheat from the chaff when you’re talking to a marketing person (‘Ah, you do internet marketing? And… what else?”). I Don’t Need You Anymore.

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Thoughts on scientific product development

Startup Lessons Learned

Someone has managed to convince themselves that they have to do their big architecture change in one fell swoop. SEM on five dollars a day Andrew Chen: Growing renewable audiences Marc Prensky's Weblog: Cell Phones in Class A new version of the Joel Test (draft) Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your c.