Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 30, 2008 What does a startup CTO actually do? Often times, it seems like people are thinking its synonymous with "that guy who gets paid to sit in the corner and think technical deep thoughts" or "that guy who gets to swoop in a rearrange my project at the last minute on a whim."

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Correction: Last week's CTO position at Modcloth is actually a San Francisco opportunity, not Pittsburgh. Our team includes 12 top-notch engineers from NVidia, Microsoft, Stanford, Berkeley and Cornell. Thousands of our users create interesting content every day. We have a deep technology stack.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 5, 2008

For tips on how to integrate it into your database and application layers, you can see the tail-end of my JIT Scalability talk. SEM on five dollars a day Andrew Chen: Growing renewable audiences Marc Prensky's Weblog: Cell Phones in Class A new version of the Joel Test (draft) Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your c.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

At IMVU , our engineering team accumulated thousands upon thousands of tests, and we had a build cluster (using BuildBot ) that ran them. For more on continuous deployment, see Just-in-time Scalability. Do you have a bug database? At IMVU, our rule was that a new engineer needed to push code to production on their first day.

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