Customer Development Design Fractional CTO Framework 
SoCal CTO
JUNE 9, 2010
Continuing my series of posts that I’ve been collecting that live at the intersection of Startups and being a Startup CTO : Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March here are the top posts from May 2010. They’re deep into Customer Development ,” he said. Here’s why. Your Process Doesn’t Work.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 22, 2008
is an elegant way to model any service-oriented business: Acquisition Activation Retention Referral Revenue We used a very similar scheme at IMVU, although we werent lucky enough to have started with this framework, and so had to derive a lot of it ourselves via trial and error. Seth Godin: How often should you publish?
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Startup Lessons Learned
JANUARY 12, 2009
Youll notice a pattern: most of the key features that enabled PHPs success are considered among its defects by experts in language design. Ironically, as PHP has grown up, its designers have been busy "fixing" these shortcomings. In my role as a CTO, Ive always tried to choose the right tool for the right job.
Startup Lessons Learned
DECEMBER 7, 2008
As a last disclaimer, please consult the definition of the word hacker if youre not familiar with the controversies surrounding that term.) Its common to find a hacker at the heart of almost any successful technology company. Hire a CTO or VP Engineering. Suffice to say, most of the hackers Ive known have been men. Guess what?
www.quora.com
JANUARY 16, 2011
" => I have not bothered to put up a landing page, survey to test customer demand, or done any customer development whatsoever. "Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?" Developer, engineer, CTO, or technical co-founder? Or going to design classes.
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