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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

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If not, whos going to insist we switch to free and open source software? October 2, 2008 8:58 AM Chad said. For example, how are you going to explain that component drive architecture like.NET isn't going to work for cross platform open open source business models? Massive proprietary databases?

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CXL Live 2018 Recap: Top 5 Lessons from Each Speaker

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AI is perfect for situations when your traffic sources change, and what works best changes. Chad Sanderson – The Statistical Pitfalls of A/B Testing. Knowledge Repo – open sourced. AI can dramatically increase your testing velocity. You can use AI even when you haven’t mastered traditional testing.

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Examples of good startup term sheets

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Anon User, Chad Lomax , Maor Ezer and Jay Liew 1. Ycombinator open source term sheet is a good start for Seed deals. I did a short video at BothSidesoftheTable th at talks about the key terms in the term sheet you need to know about AND how VCs calculate valuation differently than entrepreneurs and what to look out for.

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What is the perfect startup team?

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It is also true that open source and the commoditization of many technologies has put much more emphasis on experience. Buy in of the vision is not easily achieved from staff particularly in the open source world. But in the world following Jonathan Ive, designers are finally getting their due.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

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You need to hear this from someone who has used.Net extensively, and then happily walked away from it to go open source: You are a wanker. And before you say.net is only for windows, checkout https://github.com/mono , it’s not an open source application. It’s an *freaking open source*.net

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The unimportance of product names

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For developers we present our powerful yet simple open-source web application framework. Just that it doesn’t have to be one that has an available XYZ.com domain name. These days, that’s just too limiting. 27 Apr 10. I have also come to admire ya’ll’s patience with some seriously cruel comments out here.