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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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8 ways to incorporate customer feedback into your startup’s strategy

The Next Web

So I asked a panel of successful young entrepreneurs the following: How specifically do you incorporate customer feedback into your product development process, and what big wins have you seen as a result? Utilize Support-Driven Development. We focus on customer feedback through support-driven development.

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The unimportance of product names

37signals.com

This is Signal vs. Noise , a weblog by 37signals about design, business, experience, simplicity, the web, culture, and more. Follow us on Twitter for more information on our products. The unimportance of product names. Don’t waste too much time on picking a perfect name for your product. Established 1999 in Chicago.

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Lessons Learned: Continuous deployment and continuous learning

Startup Lessons Learned

Luckily, Chad Austin has recently weighed in with an excellent piece called 10 Pitfalls of Dirty Code. It would be hard to argue against this product development strategy, in general. Labels: agile , continuous deployment , lean startup , product development , Test-driven development 4comments: Nivi said.

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CXL Live 2018 Recap: Top 5 Lessons from Each Speaker

ConversionXL

Understand: funnel analyis to identify opportunities – 75K people / day werent able to login because of a bad login screen design. Chad Sanderson – The Statistical Pitfalls of A/B Testing. There’s an Experiments Council: internal consulting to help with tricky design , setup and interpretation.

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How to Structure Your Optimization and Experimentation Teams

ConversionXL

Chad Sanderson, the Experience Optimization Manager for Subway, creates an analogy for how the centralized model is set up: Chad Sanderson, Subway. So, too, should the Test Manager take direction from their cohort of subject matter experts: Product Managers, Technical Directors, Web Designers, and Customer Service Representatives.”.

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Finding Your Co-Founders

techcrunch.com

If your school doesn’t already have a student group designed to foster collaboration between groups of students with the skills necessary to get a startup rolling, start one! It brings together students from both the undergraduate and graduate levels, across disciplines such as design, computer science and business.