Remove Customer Development Remove Green Remove New York Remove Technology
article thumbnail

Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

What does your Chief Technology Officer do all day? When Ive asked mentors of mine who have worked in big companies about the role of the CTO, they usually talk about the importance of being the external face of the companys technology platform; an evangelist to developers, customers, and employees. Heres my take.

CTO 168
article thumbnail

The new startup arms race (for Huffington Post)

Startup Lessons Learned

Luckily for the rest of us, he was able to find his path to a green card, and now employs 24 Americans in West Lafayette, Indiana. The United States is locked in a new arms race for that most precious resource -- the future entrepreneurs upon whom economic growth depends. He started Passageways Inc. He started Passageways Inc.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Lessons Learned: Achieving a failure

Startup Lessons Learned

Build a world-class technology platform, with patent-pending algorithms and the ability to scale to millions of simultaneous users. This is why agility is such a prized quality in product development. As far as I know, there are no products that are immune from the technology life cycle adoption curve. We can skip the chasm.

article thumbnail

Lessons Learned: The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time

Startup Lessons Learned

For example, by making this button green, did more people click on it? That green button was part of a customer flow, a series of actions you want customers to complete for some business reason. And we were fortunate to have Steve Blank , the originator of customer development, on our board to keep us honest.

article thumbnail

How I Spent My Summer Vacation

Steve Blank

Granite mountains and alpine green meadows during the day, unblinking stars in the frigid August nights. Instead of ghost stories they were the first to hear the ideas of what would become Customer Development. If you’re doing Customer Development /Lean Startup, Shawn is a great guy to have as an investor.

article thumbnail

The Steve Jobs method

Startup Lessons Learned

Having so few products means Apple can dedicate enormous resources to each project once it gets the green light. Not everything has to follow lean startup and customer development principles, and I write that as a devoted practitioner of both. No new, ground breaking technologies in the iPhone.

article thumbnail

Lessons Learned: Please teach kids programming, Mr. President

Startup Lessons Learned

That data is completely consonant with the people I know who are successful technologists today, and similar patterns are documented in each recent wave of technology innovation. May 16, 2009 1:52 PM Todd Green said. You can find out more at: manning.com/sande Many thanks in advance, Todd -- Todd Green Manning Publications Co.