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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

Own the development methodology - in a traditional product development setup, the VP Engineering or some other full-time manager would be responsible for making sure the engineers wrote adequate specs, interfaced well with QA, and also run the scheduling "trains" for releases. Labels: product development 15comments: mukund said.

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Hard lessons lead to success – the story of RealLead

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That’s when Chad Barczak and Jeff Kast came along and asked if she’d like to join them in starting RealLead , a mobile marketing lead capture tool and lead marketplace for buying and selling real estate leads. They were able to recruit a top-notch programmer, who got their core mobile product developed quickly.

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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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The unimportance of product names

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I definitely agree you shouldn’t get caught up on the URL , as there are endless ways of getting a good url to relate well to your biz or product. However, I do think a good amount of thought should be put in to the name of a product or biz. . it should relate to your product directly or indirectly. 27 Apr 10.

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CXL Live 2018 Recap: Top 5 Lessons from Each Speaker

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Amazon has hired more people for their Alexa division than Google has for the entire company – it’s not hunch, this is going to be the focus. Hire & fire – tools to do a job. Chad Sanderson – The Statistical Pitfalls of A/B Testing. Be agile, move at the speed of business, don’t hold up product development.

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How to Structure Your Optimization and Experimentation Teams

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Chad Sanderson, the Experience Optimization Manager for Subway, creates an analogy for how the centralized model is set up: Chad Sanderson, Subway. There is a “foundation” team that builds the platform of experimentation, and internal clients optimize various parts of the business/product leveraging the platform.

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What is the perfect startup team?

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Smart teams understand quickly that all three skills are essential - if you can't recognize the need, you won't be able to hire for it or value it. Later you would look to enhance that with key hires in tech, design, sales and operations. 14 Comments • Nov 15, 2010 +1 for use of Platonic. The former focussed on biz.