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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 30, 2008 What does a startup CTO actually do? If not, whos going to insist we switch to free and open source software? By delegating and training, we create a corps of leaders who could step in to provide CTO-like services on demand. October 1, 2008 2:13 AM archenland said.

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Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 22, 2008 The three drivers of growth for your business model. Master of 500 Hats: Startup Metrics for Pirates (SeedCamp 2008, London) This presentation should be required reading for anyone creating a startup with an online service component. Choose one. This has led to exponential growth.

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Lessons Learned: Principles of Lean Startups, presentation for.

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, November 4, 2008 Principles of Lean Startups, presentation for Maples Investments Image via Wikipedia Steve Blank and I had the opportunity to create a presentation about lean startups for Maples Investments. Customer development. How dare you! =) November 4, 2008 10:58 PM IMVU said.

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Lessons Learned: Product development leverage

Startup Lessons Learned

In that same spirit, here are some suggestions for tactics you can use to increase the leverage of your product development efforts: Free and open source software (and even hardware ). When you participate in an open community like these you take advantage of tremendous amounts of effort.

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New Rules for the New Internet Bubble

Steve Blank

But the bubble mantra of get “big fast” and “first mover advantage” demanded tens of millions more to create a “brand.” VC’s went back to basics, to focus on building companies while their founders worked on building customers. And those customers may be using their devices/apps continuously. The New Exits. You have to deliver.

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

As in many scalability decisions, we’d have been much better off investing in agility, so that we could change the architecture in response to actual customer demand, rather than trying to predict the future. Leverage product development with open source and third parties. Eric, great post.

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Lessons Learned: Five Whys

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, November 13, 2008 Five Whys Taiichi Ohno was one of the inventors of the Toyota Production System. Most of this code was from a variety of open source PHP projects that were glued together with the shortest path to goal possible. November 13, 2008 8:59 PM eisrael said. Good stuff.