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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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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

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Understand growth accounting – new, resurrected vs churned = net growth (can also look at this at feature level, not only product). Work hard to define meaningful product metrics – enabler of team success. Chad Sanderson – The Statistical Pitfalls of A/B Testing. Iterate to the vision. Have a vision. .

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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. The metrics aren’t the same and neither are the strategies…they all need to be aligned to create a consistent user experience.”. Chad Sanderson, Subway.

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CXL Live 2019 Recap: Takeaways from Every Speaker

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There are tons of metrics you can monitor: Conversion rate; Bounce rate ; Click-through rate ; Pageviews; Lead captures; Purchase conversion rate. Setting up your experiments for success: Define success metrics. Statistical ghost: When you think your test has impacted your metric, but in reality there’s no impact.