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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 30, 2008 What does a startup CTO actually do? What does your Chief Technology Officer do all day? Thats an important job, for sure, and Ive been called upon to do it from time to time. So what does CTO mean, besides just "technical founder who really cant manage anyone?"

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Waves of technology platforms

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 8, 2008 Waves of technology platforms I still remember the first time I switched to LAMP. So one of the first things we did was to hire an Oracle expert and get to work. That startup didnt turn out so well, but not for lack of technology. 1 comments: flixsterwidgettest said.

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Lessons Learned: The hacker's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

Its common to find a hacker at the heart of almost any successful technology company. I know them right away - we can talk high-level architecture all the way down to the bits-and-bytes of his system. When the architecture needs modifying - why do we need a meeting? Building a good application architecture is not just coding.

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Lessons Learned: Just-In-Time Scalability

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 2, 2008 Just-In-Time Scalability At my previous company, we pioneered an approach to building out our infrastructure that we called "Just-In-Time Scalability." You can also download our presentation, " Just-In-Time Scalability: Agile Methods to Support Massive Growth."

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Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

Startup Lessons Learned

We talk about taking advantages of the incredible agility offered by modern web architecture for extremely rapid deployment, etc. What about a hardware business with some long-lead-time components? Labels: agile , continuous deployment , customer development , events , listening to customers , slides 3comments: Sean Murphy said.

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Thoughts on scientific product development

Startup Lessons Learned

Someone has managed to convince themselves that they have to do their big architecture change in one fell swoop. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica.