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Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. Ive attempted to embed the relevant slides below. Talk about waste.

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Best Practices and Tips for Restaurant Web Design

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Understand the difference between design and development. To build a website, you’ll need both design for the site and development of the site. Although some freelancers can do both, the skills for design and development are typically different and you may want to leverage different people for each part of the job. Personality!

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Small Business Marketing: Web Design Best Practices and Tips

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Whether you leverage crowdSPRING’s community to develop a Web presence for your small business, work with a freelance designer or design firm, or create a design yourself, you might find the following 10 tips useful: 1. Understand the difference between design and development. Last, there are some promising developments on the horizon.

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Small Business Marketing: Web Design Best Practices and Tips

crowdSPRING Blog

Whether you leverage crowdSPRING’s community to develop a Web presence for your small business, work with a freelance designer or design firm, or create a design yourself, you might find the following 10 tips useful: 1. Understand the difference between design and development. Last, there are some promising developments on the horizon.

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

When Ive asked mentors of mine who have worked in big companies about the role of the CTO, they usually talk about the importance of being the external face of the companys technology platform; an evangelist to developers, customers, and employees. Thats more than just drawing architecture diagrams, though. What made them exceptional?

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Lessons Learned: Just-In-Time Scalability

Startup Lessons Learned

We wanted an agile approach that would allow us to build our software architecture as we needed it, without downtime, but also without large amounts of up-front cost. After all, the worst kind of waste in software development is code to support a use case that never materializes. How to listen to customers, and not just the loud.

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Reincubate: Blog: Chief Technology Officer job description (for web, start-up or corporate)

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Start-ups often hire at one extreme -- closer to a Lead Developer or VP of Engineering -- whereas corporates may focus on their CIO, which is potentially quite a different role. Contribute to development of primary business plan, with input on focus, costing and approach (platform, build vs. buy, resourcing, hosting strategy, time & cost).