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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

Own the development methodology - in a traditional product development setup, the VP Engineering or some other full-time manager would be responsible for making sure the engineers wrote adequate specs, interfaced well with QA, and also run the scheduling "trains" for releases. Labels: product development 15comments: mukund said.

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Advice for CTO Founders: Don't Let Business Kill the Business

www.informationarbitrage.com

Read more » Recent Press The New York Times April 22, 2009 - A Company Plans to Market Illiquid Assets CNBC.com April 8, 2008 - Social Stock Picking Reuters April 6, 2009 - Bit.ly A full-time business partner is definitely not required at this point in the company's life. Click to email him.

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Durant Versus Sloan – Part 1

Steve Blank

Sloan Foundation , the Sloan School of Management at MIT , the Sloan program at Stanford , and the Sloan/Kettering Memorial Cancer Center in New York. If you look around the United States it’s hard to avoid Sloan. There’s the Alfred P. Sloan’s book My Years with General Motors written 40 years ago is still a business classic.

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Stop lying on stage

Startup Lessons Learned

You are the “hits&# that websites crave, the followers and the RSS subscribers. You are the “hits&# that websites crave, the followers and the RSS subscribers. And yet you who are reading this right now have tremendous power. You are the intended audience for all of those expenditures of energy.

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The Promise of the Lean Startup

Startup Lessons Learned

Specially because of Twitter and this information overload, I think many people have been struggling to reduce the number of RSS feeds they actually follow (it is my case), so it´ll become easier for us to keep track of your writing even if we´re not reading those blogs that often. Eric, I do think you should cross-post them here.

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Lo, my 1032 subscribers, who are you?

Startup Lessons Learned

I cant remember how I came across this blog (you can probably blame Hacker News) but Im sure it was prior to your posts on VH. Lessons Learned is the best RSS source in my overflowing Newsgator Online account. Either way, Ive been a happy subscriber ever since. November 19, 2008 1:48 PM Will Pate said. Hi Eric, Will Pate here.

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Lessons Learned: The App Store after the gold rush

Startup Lessons Learned

Acqusition competition is how new apps get new customers. On the iPhone, it seems that two are driving most of the installs: the "newest apps" RSS feed (which may be combined with PR) and a primitive form of SEO, when people search the App Store for a specific kind of app. Take a look and let me know what you think.