rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Investors use a consulting CTO for technical due diligence. Why Use a Consulting CTO A consulting CTO can help you complete a business plan by estimating costs and timelines for the company’s technology development and deployment. third party to vet or manage&# your development team.

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View from Seed

MARCH 19, 2015

” After spending some time at the acquiring company, I was hired by Google and eventually was put in charge of the development team that launched AdWords. You make your case with objective data: CTR, customer acquisition cost, etc. Why doesn’t everyone do this?” Another success. So I thought, “I am good!”

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dontbesoanalytical.blogspot.com

MAY 13, 2012

The CTO should not manage developers. The head of development spends his or her time working to keep the development team on track against a set of product plans. Inside the development organization, this Director attends to staffing, training, workload and productivity metrics, budget, and scheduling.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

We have been using LinkedIn for both sourcing recruits and reviewing backgrounds for recruits. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

OCTOBER 14, 2010

I liked that Andy Jenkins and his development team are information marketers themselves, so they know and have experienced what problems info marketers face and have added really cool features specifically for some unique situations. Price could become an issue if you are a heavy user of data.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

I did a presentation this week at Coloft that looked at how Non-Technical Founders can go about getting their MVP built. Even with these, you will have paper-tested your MVP, but the reality is that customers will not be able to assess the value to them until they actually use it. Review the code being built.

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

We’ve heard this from startup founders, product managers, development team leads, CTOs, and others who see their product gaining traction, but simultaneously see performance falling off a cliff. Too often though, it’s the result of performance needs not being properly assessed at the start of work. So, why does this happen?

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 26, 2020

…suddenly, nearly all technical jobs are remote-jobs, all dev-teams are distributed teams, and virtually all hiring is remote hiring. Cost savings companies experience when they eliminate expensive office rents and the payroll costs associated with the salaries required for people to live in major metro areas.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

There are three fundamental situations that change what your company needs to do: creating a new market (the original Palm), bringing a new product to an existing market (Handspring), and resegmenting an existing market (niche, like In-n-Out Burger; or low-cost, like Southwest Airlines). What is customer development?

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Up and Running

MAY 6, 2015

You really need to get with your development team and if you don’t know what the word responsive is, ask them and make them make your website that. Those things cost me $5,000, $10,000 a build five or 10 years ago. All the stuff you’re thinking about here, testimonials, social proof, think about reviews.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

The idea of leverage is simple: for every ounce of effort your product development team puts into your product, find ways to magnify that effort by getting many other people to invest along with you. It allowed me to assess the market demand for that offline product before I had the final product baked.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Vlad Malik from www.goodui.org gave a review of A/B Tasty: Vlad Malik : “The things I like about ABTasty I like a lot. Here’s a review from Andrew Anderson from Malwarebytes : Andrew Anderson: “ Pros – Offers the best in-product segmentation available. Here’s a review from Johann Van Tonder of AWA Digital : Johann Van Tonder.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

I now believe that the "pick two" concept is fundamentally flawed, and that lean startups can achieve all three simultaneously: quickly bring high-quality software to market at low cost. Thats why we need continuous integration and test-driven development. First of all, its a myth that cutting corners saves time.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

If the pop-up displays an on-target offer and is presented infrequently and has a professional design, I consider them a viable option with a potentially very positive impact on your email list growth. Pop-up technology has become more subtle, with the lightbox pop-up becoming the new standard (and also able to bypass pop-up blockers).

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 13, 2009

For example, heres him discussing our collective blindness to queues: To understand the economic cost of queues, product developers must be able to answer two questions. Today, only 2 percent of product developers measure queues. Second, what is the cost of these queues? First, how big are our queues?

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trada.com

APRIL 7, 2010

Notably VentureBeat cited that five of the 26 companies that presented at Y Combinator Investor Day were still in stealth mode. Fortunately these days there are very low cost ways to organize your communication. .&# Which is in direct contradiction to his earlier blog post, “ Why you shouldn’t keep your startup idea secret.&#

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

This is a better view than the standard report, but this tab is mostly for your boss (with mildly interesting data around engagement ) and for your IT/Dev team as they decide which platforms to optimize the experience for or prioritize first. What do you learn from this tab? Remember, right-time is way more important than real-time.)

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

But when there is a task half-done, its actually slowing the team down. Imagine a team working from a forced-rank priority queue. Sometimes, a great hacker has the potential to grow into the CTO of a company, and in those cases all you need is an outside mentor who can work with them to develop those skills. Not necessarily.

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Venture Chronicles

MAY 16, 2012

Everything that SAP delivers must have a migration strategy attached to it, which means they will take longer to deliver products and the cost to develop will be higher. Dalgaard presented an organizational model of applications around Customers, People, Money, and Suppliers. over to fill the gap?).

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mashable.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Likewise, Android developers that want to target the upcoming wave of Honeycomb tablets will need to create variations of their apps for the different device types. Fortunately, this problem has created a microcosm of cross-platform mobile development tools. Ars Technica used PhoneGap to build its iPad app.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

How about reviewing some of the incredible work being done by the likes of Mark Rendle, Ben Vanderveen, Alex Robson, Jon Skeet, Chris Patterson, Glen Block, Rob Eisenberg or Steve Sanderson? I run a.NET development team and before this gig I spent 4 years running a web app written in.Net. March 26, 2011 at 1:15 am.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

His presentation makes me think of that Kung Fu Panda movie: there is no secret recipe. Honestly assess your own strengths and weaknesses thoroughly. The “advice&# presented here targets kids with dreamy ideas, and little to no connections. Hopefully next time you will make more sense and will talk less on obvious things.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

They log in to translate the documents, one at a time, marking each finished when done, which sends the file back to the company for review.” Youll estimate time and cost better. Also important: Only go for providers who have great reviews from many past customers. Decline bids from providers without many great reviews.

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