Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 12, 2009 Why PHP won When I first learned to program on the web, Perl + CGI was the dominant platform. But by the time I was building my first websites for commercial use , PHP had taken over. Writing unit tests or mock objects in PHP is an exercise in constant frustration.

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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?" So I initially gravitated to the CTO title, and not VP of Engineering.

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JANUARY 16, 2011

Developer, engineer, CTO, or technical co-founder? When Zuckerberg started Thefacebook.com he was a PHP coder (translation: not a real developer). Sooner or later, using PHP or RoR or.Net or some Java framework, that 0.5x the nice thing is that to start, THEY PAY the consultant for you. Rockstar v.

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