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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? But I think in a lean startup, the development methodology is too important to be considered "just management."

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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.) This is one of the bedrock practices of any lean startup , and so its a common piece of advice I give out. I would love to have an effective CTO or VP of Engineering to manage me.

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Convergent Technologies: War Story 1 – Selling with Sports Scores.

Steve Blank

He even remembered the names of their wives and kids and some details about schools or events. (I The Consultative Sale Our sales guy then quietly asked if there was any way we could help them. I had just watched a master of the consultative sale. In both cases you really don’t need a skilled/consultative sales force.

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Women 2.0 » FounderDating: How I Found My Co-Founder

www.women2.org

WHATS HOT: EVENTS NEWS LEARN CAREER VIDEOS ESPAÑOL. I attended engineering-focused Meetups and networking events. I received an invitation to attend the event. At the FounderDating event, emphasis was put on pitching yourself and NOT the idea. The next Bay Area event is on August 23rd. female founders.

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

blog.expensify.com

Do a curl (or your.NET equivalent) on each domain, and see how many are running a Windows server: I think you’ll find the fraction very small. I was at a startup AND I developed an evented I/O server with pluggable protocol handlers AND it was capable of handling the c10k problem AND I did this back in 2006 with C# on.NET 2.0

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