Agile CTO Hire Operations Presentation 
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 27, 2013
He has grown our US operations from 1 employee (him) to a global organization of 75 employees that will finish the year with 8-digit revenues (90+% recurring) and more than 350% year-over-year growth. In his spare time he raised nearly $30 million. The Agile Board. What Rob wrote in his post is right. Between Board Meetings.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 15, 2008
But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. So far, I have found "lean startup" works better with the entrepreneurs Ive talked to than "agile startup" or even "extreme startup.") The lean startup is an application of Lean Thinking.
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SoCal CTO
FEBRUARY 13, 2013
I did a presentation this week at Coloft that looked at how Non-Technical Founders can go about getting their MVP built. There are a few cases where you somewhat need to see the system operating to have a sense of the value. Structure development contracts appropriately or directing the in-house team appropriately.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 24, 2017
Hire a CEO to Go Public. The VCs would hire a CEO with a track record who looked and acted like the type of CEO Wall Street bankers expected to see in large companies. The role of the independent member was typically to tell the founding CEO that the VCs were hiring a new CEO.). People had to actually pay you for your product.
Startup Lessons Learned
DECEMBER 14, 2017
For example, if a chief executive officer manages the daily operation, a chief entrepreneur heads up innovation efforts. The result is a combination of design thinking, Lean Startup, and Agile Scrum, and Ignacio’s innovation team includes 25 coaches who train employees in PACE best practices. Second, don’t simply hire your buddies.
Startup Lessons Learned
MAY 7, 2009
For people we hired from larger companies especially, this was challenging. The idea was that these two people would operate as a unit, with the mentors job performance during this period evaluated by the performance of the new person. We always assigned them a "code mentor" from the ranks of the more established engineers.
Up and Running
MAY 23, 2016
If you don’t yet have a team yet, list the roles you need to hire for. If you don’t yet have a team yet, list the roles you need to hire for. You get to call all the shots, including how you want to operate the business and who you want to be involved. Noah says, “Agile is what most software companies use.
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