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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

Platform selection and technical design - if your business strategy is to create a low-burn, highly iterative lean startup, youd better be using foundational tools that make that easy rather than hard. Massive proprietary databases? The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Lessons Learned: A new version of the Joel Test (draft)

Startup Lessons Learned

Do you have a bug database? Plus, as product development teams in lean startups become adept at learning-and-discovery (as opposed to just executing to spec), its clear that some bugs shouldnt be fixed. Just like in lean manufacturing, its generally more efficient to drive down the batch size. Its incredibly hard to do.

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Lessons Learned: Great open source scalability tools from Danga

Startup Lessons Learned

For tips on how to integrate it into your database and application layers, you can see the tail-end of my JIT Scalability talk. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. MogileFS - "Distributed (meta) file system.