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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

So I initially gravitated to the CTO title, and not VP of Engineering. If youre trying to design an architecture to maximize agility, how can that work if some people are working in TDD and others not? March 23, 2010 2:05 PM Anonymoussaid. I mean, have you seen other people? They might do anything ! Excellent post!

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Lessons Learned: The hacker's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

As a last disclaimer, please consult the definition of the word hacker if youre not familiar with the controversies surrounding that term.) In school I was being pounded day and night with anything that has to do with agile software development. I would love to have an effective CTO or VP of Engineering to manage me.

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

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You can measure this yourself: go to any list of startups, maybe look at YCombinator’s recent graduate class , or Scoble’s list of picks for 2010 , or Sequoia’s list of seed companies — or go find a list you like better. Nothing says contraction negotiation like the smell of cordite. How about ABAPer?

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