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Why Your Startup Can’t Afford To NOT Hire a CTO

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January 21, 2009 Why Your Startup Can’t Afford To NOT Hire a CTO As I mentioned in my last post, one of the many things I do as an entrepreneur is to advise other start up companies. Unfortunately in many cases, the choice to hire a CTO is the worst choice a CEO or management team could make. This is critical!

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Lessons Learned: The product manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

I met one recently that is working on a really innovative product, and the stories I heard from their development team made me want to cringe. The product manager was clearly struggling to get results from the rest of the team. Labels: product development 8comments: Vincent van Wylick said. Expo SF (May.

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Lessons Learned: What is customer development?

Startup Lessons Learned

Steve Blank has devoted many years now to trying to answer that question, with a theory he calls Customer Development. This theory has become so influential that I have called it one of the three pillars of the lean startup - every bit as important as the changes in technology or the advent of agile development. Expo SF (May.

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Lessons Learned: The four kinds of work, and how to get them done.

Startup Lessons Learned

This technique rests on three things: identifying the kinds of work that need to get done, creating the right type of teams for each kind, and steering the company by allocating resources among them. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science?

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

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Update: The end is near, Expensify is hiring a.NET programmer! As you might know, we’re hiring the best programmers in the world. oz burgers as fast as possible, and commit the rest of your career to an endless series of McDonalds menus. Expensify Blog. Expense Reports That Don't Suck. Sunday edit : Still going!

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The Stealth Mode: Trada’s Position on Staying Stealth

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As we’ve headed towards our public launch, we actually hired two awesome Social Media Managers, Elaine and Anna , because we understood the level of engagement we’d need to have in the conversation. Email and phone cover the rest. and we've been leaning towards remaining in stealth mode a bit longer. Great post!

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