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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

If not, whos going to insist we switch to free and open source software? By delegating and training, we create a corps of leaders who could step in to provide CTO-like services on demand. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Massive proprietary databases? I dont think so.

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

Startup Lessons Learned

For eBay, this is caused by the incredible network effects of their business (so-called demand-side increasing returns and supply-side increasing returns). Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica.

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Lessons Learned: Product development leverage

Startup Lessons Learned

In that same spirit, here are some suggestions for tactics you can use to increase the leverage of your product development efforts: Free and open source software (and even hardware ). When you participate in an open community like these you take advantage of tremendous amounts of effort.

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Lessons Learned: Principles of Lean Startups, presentation for.

Startup Lessons Learned

It is becoming easier and cheaper for companies to bring products to market, leveraging free and open source software , cloud computing, open social data (Facebook, OpenSocial ), and open distribution (AdWords, SEO). Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. What is customer development?

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Announcing our investment in Dataloop

The Equity Kicker

From a market perspective we liked the fact that companies everywhere are building their own custom cloud monitoring solutions using open source software – just like David and his team did at Alfresco, and that as cloud penetration increases demand for cloud monitoring solutions is only going to grow.

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Do lean startup principles have a place in the enterprise?

The Next Web

Swinmurn deduced that customer demand was present, and Zappos would eventually grow into a billion dollar business based on the model of selling shoes online. Consider open-sourcing certain aspects of your platform. Guess who took the lean startup approach? Lean startup principles. Can it work for an enterprise software company?

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

As in many scalability decisions, we’d have been much better off investing in agility, so that we could change the architecture in response to actual customer demand, rather than trying to predict the future. Leverage product development with open source and third parties. One last thought.