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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

In my roles as CTO for various startups, its been an interesting repeating cycle for the CTO to have to wear lots of hats especially in the early days: from start-up systems architect to code monkey to development manager to ops manager then finally to CTO as the business scales over time and these roles warrant dedicated full-time staff.

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The curse of prevention

Startup Lessons Learned

If we’re practicing continuous deployment, we can be confident that we’ll be able to rush an emergency fix into production without risking introducing further problems. If not, maybe an investment in that direction would be more warranted. If not, maybe an investment in that direction would be more warranted.

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The cardinal sin of community management

Startup Lessons Learned

To imagine that this person does so only to get attention, or only to harass others, or only to harass you are to play into the hands of this geek autocracy on the Internet that just isn't viable anymore. However, you have opened yourself onto the internet with some really great points that are so wonderful to see written.

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