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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

I also have to include this caveat: we werent purely a software company - we built telecom network devices, hw and sw. Most of the other processs changes - mandatory design reviews (prelimninary, critical, etc), - documenting all our procedures, and so on - were to support those two factors. Software Eng.

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Lessons Learned: The hacker's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

Sometimes, a great hacker has the potential to grow into the CTO of a company, and in those cases all you need is an outside mentor who can work with them to develop those skills. At the end of the day, the product development team of a startup (large or small) is a service organization. I am basically a one-man shop.