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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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MAY 10, 2011
Ive occasionally worked with executive recruiters, for example in hiring a CTO for my first company, Eve.com. This time, I decided to handle the process myself. Minted.com is both a global design community and stationery retailer. The first thing I did was to find an advisor who I could trust.
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APRIL 27, 2010
I mean, you don’t have to build an actual business—you can just mimic the movements and demonstrate something that looks like a startup on paper, without any of the necessary risk taking, lessons learned or even a fraction of the effort—all the stuff that investors like to see. Step #2: Pitch investors.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 8, 2008
So one of the first things we did was to hire an Oracle expert and get to work. Meanwhile, we were building our app in PHP, using a generic DB driver and mysql, "for the time being." I was building a new startup in 1999, and wanted to do it right. I had heard that all great companies built their applications on Oracle.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 6, 2008
I know some of those compilers are no longer available (some are hosted, others are not), so I took the liberty of putting up a copy of the PHP Greasemonkey Compiler. Ive made some pretty minor modifications to it, mostly in the way of simple usability changes. As I make more, youll find them (with source) at my Greasemonkey Compiler page.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 15, 2008
I had the opportunity to pioneer this approach to funnel analysis at IMVU, where it became a core part of our customer development process. It was actually my co-founder Will Harvey who taught me to present this data in the simple format weve discussed in this post. They just ask "which hypothesis should I show?"
Startup Lessons Learned
MAY 7, 2009
Second, leveraging a dynamic scripting language (like PHP) for building web applications made it easy to quickly set up a simple, non-disruptive deployment process. For people we hired from larger companies especially, this was challenging. May 11, 2009 9:42 PM Artem said. Interesting article, Eric. for Harvard Business Revie.
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