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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

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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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

(Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Your "startup-lessons-learned" are very valuable.

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Beyond the garage

Startup Lessons Learned

No BS, no vanity metrics, no launches, no PR. Yes, you really can use continuous deployment – even in an SEC regulated environment. Wealthfront CTO Pascal-Louis Perez will show you how. Votizen’s David Binetti will show you a real pivot story, including the actual metrics that helped him realize it was time to change.

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Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

Master of 500 Hats: Startup Metrics for Pirates (SeedCamp 2008, London) This presentation should be required reading for anyone creating a startup with an online service component. He also has a discussion of how your choice of business model determines which of these metric areas you want to focus on. Choose one.

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Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot

Startup Lessons Learned

If you havent seen it, Pascals recent presentation on continuous deployment is a must-see; slides are here. “Everybody felt the burden of supporting all those transactions every day,&# says Pascal-Louis Perez, kaChing’s CTO. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Which is a nice story.

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Lessons Learned: Just-In-Time Scalability

Startup Lessons Learned

Labels: agile , continuous deployment 1 comments: timothyfitz said. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

Startup Lessons Learned

Labels: agile , continuous deployment , customer development , events , listening to customers , slides 3comments: Sean Murphy said. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev.