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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

It became harder and harder to separate how the software is built from how the software is structured. If youre trying to design an architecture to maximize agility, how can that work if some people are working in TDD and others not? If not, whos going to insist we switch to free and open source software?

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How a startup should leverage a personal assistant

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

He blogs to 10,000 web entrepreneurs at Software by Rob and co-hosts the podcast Startups for the Rest of Us. More than two years ago, my business partner and I discussed launching a hosted version of our ASP.NET invoicing software, DotNetInvoice. Agile Development, meet Agile Business. Introduction.

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From 160 Hours to 10: A Tale of Agile Business Practices

Software By Rob

More than two years ago my business partner and I discussed launching a hosted version of my ASP.NET invoicing software , DotNetInvoice. But given the heavy competition in the hosted invoicing software market and the level of effort of the task, it was continually placed on the back burner. Agile Development, meet Agile Business.

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The curse of prevention

Startup Lessons Learned

Due to an interaction effect between your hardware, solar flares, and quantum flux, this virus will crash your computer and erase your hard drive sometime soon. In the past, we invested in brilliant architecture, code reuse, refactoring, modular design, etc. In other words, a principled way to combine agility with stability.

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

blog.expensify.com

The right sort of person is so passionate about coding, they can’t be stopped from doing it. But every day spent in that kitchen is a day NOT spent in a real kitchen, learning how to cook real food, and write real code. I currently work in information security, and I help teach developers how to write better, more secure code.

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The cardinal sin of community management

Startup Lessons Learned

In fact, I am convinced that if you could find some of IMVU’s earliest adopters, they would say something like this: “sure, those guys at IMVU HQ were helpful in writing code and stuff, but in the end they were just the hired help. peer review is NOT working. It was really the community who built that product.&#

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