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What is a CTO?

Austin Startup

As a CTO, I can definitely say without a doubt that few people understand what a CTO does. When I tell someone I’m a CTO, I’m often met with a blank stare. Even when someone is aware of what a CTO does, they often have limited context due to the wide variety of CTO roles.

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What to expect when your team grows from 10 to 20 people

Spencer Fry

Part of that change is due to the fact that we've hired great people to fill those roles, including a Chief Marketing Officer who runs our 7-person marketing team and a Lead Support person who runs our 4-person support team. New hiring responsibilities. It's even difficult for me at times as the CEO.

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Fear is the mind-killer

Startup Lessons Learned

I spent some time with his company before the conference and discussed ways to get started with continuous deployment , including my experience introducing it at IMVU. For people we hired from larger companies especially, this was challenging. May 11, 2009 9:42 PM Artem said. Interesting article, Eric.

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Lessons Learned: SEM on five dollars a day

Startup Lessons Learned

And then we would use that simple analytics system I mentioned to monitor the conversion rates of customers from each campaign. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. We would pretty much bid on any phrase that was "[name of competitive product] chat" and variations like that.

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Pivot, don't jump to a new vision

Startup Lessons Learned

Some startups fail because the founders cant have this conversation - they either blow up when they try, or they fail to change because they are afraid of conflict. As the CTO/VP Engineering, I was the worst offender. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. Both are lethal outcomes.

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Lessons Learned: The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time

Startup Lessons Learned

You need to make sure you dont get away from trying bold new things, using some combination of your vision and in-depth customer conversations to come up with the next idea to try. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. But where do those ideas come from in the first place?