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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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2017

The result is a combination of design thinking, Lean Startup, and Agile Scrum, and Ignacio’s innovation team includes 25 coaches who train employees in PACE best practices. LESSON #3: Avoid these three hiring mistakes. When it comes time to grow your team, Jeff Jordan and Eric pointed out three hiring mistakes to avoid.

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blog.chrisomeara.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Chris OMeara Main | Probing Code Quality » 01/31/2010 Startup CTO: Could It Work? A CEO friend of mine recently asked my opinion about Tony Karrers Startup CTO or Developer article. I think the part time CTO could work. They tend to know where to find good help in terms of employees and consultants.

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www.lanceglasser.com

MAY 13, 2012

What does a CTO do? What does a CTO do? What does a CTO (Chief Technology Officer) do in a high-tech company? So what is the CTO job? The best description of this was given to me by my friend Greg Papadopolous who was on the faculty at MIT with me many years ago and is now CTO of Sun Microsystems. What goes around.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 10, 2021

Let me show you how it works: When a user logs into a web application, a program, or software, the username and password are passed and verified against your existing infrastructure to make sure the user’s credentials are valid. Reduce the Time Spent Onboarding New Employees. Onboarding goes beyond hiring new employees.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 27, 2014

The event, devoted exclusively to the intersection of consumer technologies and the enterprise, will explore the ways companies are embracing consumer-inspired technology to engage employees, drive innovation, and attract and empower the next generation workforce. Events & Happenings CITE event innovation IT technology'

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View from Seed

MARCH 29, 2016

This desperate need for employees often leads to an equally desperate, ad-hoc approach to recruiting without any relevant recruiting metrics being tracked. Founders furiously work their networks, post open positions on every reasonable-looking job board, and hope to quickly start hiring. Candidate-company fit: Interview-to-hire.

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 7, 2015

It’s about to launch “Managify 101,” an ambitious at-scale leadership program geared for all company managers. Cody Fauser , one of Shopify’s first employees, was promoted to CTO. This program is an impressive investment in talent development. The evolution from one-on-one to full-scale production.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Path Forward began as a program at Return Path, a data-solutions company with more than 500 employees in 12 offices around the globe. The company’s CTO, Andy Sautins, came up with the idea of an internship program aimed at women who were interested in returning to work after a career break.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 21, 2016

This includes creating the Information Security Program, training on secure development of products, and/or implementing the security architecture of their infrastructure. In fact, startups are at the perfect spot to implement a rock solid program at their foundational level, and then eventually grow it from there.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Amsterdam-based Rockstart Accelerator , one of the many, many startup accelerators in Europe, is taking the first class of startups who’ve graduated from its six-month program stateside this month. Ideedock : a Q&A platform for employees in enterprises. Owlin : a real-time news analysis and intelligence tool for traders.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Another way to learn more about who’s speaking is to sort the conference program by category and find people addressing specific topics. He was a very early employee of Facebook , and engineering director there through the moment it blew up. For example: Mitch Kapor was a founder of Lotus. He’ll bring us real-world advice.

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blog.alinelerner.com

JUNE 21, 2013

Lessons from a year’s worth of hiring data. Because I used to be an engineer, one part of my job was conducting first-round technical interviews, and between January 2012 and January 2013, I interviewed roughly 300 people for our back-end/full-stack engineer position. Aline Lerner's Blog. Jun 21, 2013.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2014

In response, venture capital firms like Sequoia and Andreessen/Horowitz are hiring new partners just to work with their portfolio companies and match them to corporations. It helps if the acquirer has incentives for its existing employees that tie the new acquisition’s success to those that help them.)

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SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

I seem to encounter a lot of people who want to attach a CTO label to me as I'm the only programmer on the founding team of three. While I do fill that role at the moment, I'm a little hesitant to refer to myself as a CTO as we still haven't launched a product, acquired a single user, or turned or a penny in profit. Accounting?

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David Teten

JUNE 6, 2011

The new FinTech Innovation Lab , an annual program run by the New York City Investment Fund and Accenture, had their launch event on Thursday night. This is definitely not the norm in accelerator programs; I’d be curious to know the logic. Previously CTO, Goldman Sachs. Does R&D/biz dev services for company.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Derek Sivers about me blog books email list contact How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen 2010-06-19 Do you have an idea for a website, online business, or application, but need a programmer to turn that idea into reality? Say, “We are hiring a developer to create only the beginning of an application. Hire one from each.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

He’s a former Dell exec that worked on their startup team with Ingrid Vandervelt, a Capital Factory mentor, and the co-founder of DivInc, Austin’s pre-accelerator program for diverse founders, which is hosted at Capital Factory. In this role, she is responsible for advancing equitable economic growth and financial inclusion around the world.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Olin College Foundry Program. link] – Not a meetup, but a great mentorship program started by serial CTO Sean Lindsay. Startup Leadership Program – International mentorship program with over 100 startups participating. Startup School – Professional accelerator program for recent graduates.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 15, 2019

We will be hiring people with mental and physical disabilities in the near future. As my skin became stronger, it looked even more fresh and beautiful than it was BEFORE I started my program! I build social media platforms, help procure contracts, assist with infrastructure and more. Helping others is what makes my heart full.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

And we cant hire new engineers any faster, because you cant be interviewing and debugging and fixing all at the same time! Even with the highest standards imaginable, theres no way to hire just genius hackers. Use pair programming and collective code ownership. Just change it. From the outside, it looks a lot like chaos.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 2, 2011

She was the former CTO of Cisco Systems from 1998-2000, and is on the boards of Disney and Packet Design and was a board member at Sun and FedEx for many years. When I started they had 18,000 employees and double that when I left." It is a lot easier to have someone else recruit and hire a CEO.".

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Olin College Foundry Program. link] – Not a meetup, but a great mentorship program started by serial CTO Sean Lindsay. Startup Leadership Program – International mentorship program with over 100 startups participating. Scaling Companies To Watch (ie: probably hiring). University Resources. HBS Startup Tribe.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

The SXSW Accelerator Pitch Event takes place within the Startup & Tech Sectors track of programming. Our CTO and Co-founder Majd Chaaya and colleague Hella Bennani are representing us there at the end of January. Hugh Forrest serves as Chief Programming Officer at SXSW , the world’s most unique gathering of creative professionals.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 11, 2017

When we were left to our own devices in that conference room, our CTO and I wrote down our goals, our aspirations, our fears, and everything in between. We wrote things like what five traits a new hire should have, or values everyone in the company should act on. Core values vs. culture code — what’s the difference?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 12, 2009 Why PHP won When I first learned to program on the web, Perl + CGI was the dominant platform. But by the time I was building my first websites for commercial use , PHP had taken over. These days, successful programming is as much about processing data as creating algorithms.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). Im one of those people whos been programming since they can remember. Would love to get in touch.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 4, 2022

One of my favorite episodes who should be your first hire, what's your funding plan, Dr. Lisa Cravin shares her top advice from building spotlight oral. One when scale started to kick in, when we hit the, you know, 200 employees at the head office, 2000 employees system wide, it started to get complex and a little bit outside of my sandbox.

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SVPG

JUNE 27, 2015

Some think this is what’s taught in MBA programs (it’s not). I've spent a lot of time recently thinking about this topic. Two West Point graduates that are both long-time friends, Marty Abbott and Michael Fisher, just released the second edition of their book The Art of Scalability.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 29, 2010

In my last post, I mentioned that you should strive to hire people with the right kind of ambition. Curious why should an employee be motivated first by a company’s success? No matter how well the CEO designs the personal incentive programs, they will never be perfect. Stay in your place. While I sit here and rule.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2018

As Andrew Pearson of Intelligencia notes, “Without significant hardware investments, predictive analytics programs either weren’t possible or too slow to be useful.”. Increasingly powerful systems cracked open the door for real-time predictive analytics. A world of real-time predictions. Data, data, and data. The results?

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Update: The end is near, Expensify is hiring a.NET programmer! Or, rather, more offensively to Facebook and Google employees, less offensive to.NET developers, though the underlying message is the same.). As you might know, we’re hiring the best programmers in the world. Expensify Blog. Some additional comments at the end.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 28, 2014

they need a developer more than they need a CTO. I just had a fellow CTO ask me about a particular technical design problem and several directions they could go and ask for my thoughts on the tradeoffs for those different choices. Many are not interested in 3rd party technologies that can streamline development.

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 21, 2016

When was C4A founded and how is it structured – a non-profit with both employees and volunteers? I decided to start a service year program to let the people in the tech industry dip their toes in the waters of government. I’d been working on a conference called Gov 2.0 More than a non-profit, though, we are a network.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 7, 2009

We eventually discovered (via five whys ) that we also had to get each new employee acculturated to a fearless way of thinking. For people we hired from larger companies especially, this was challenging. Because this was such a big cultural change for most new employees, we didnt leave them to sink or swim on their own.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2010

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www.entrepreneur.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

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