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A Startup CTO’s Take on Early Technology Choices & Tradeoffs

View from Seed

Then as your business grows, you’ve already established a culture of good engineering practices, you already have the senior staff up to speed, and you’ll find it easy to attract more talent. NVV: Startups are all about tradeoffs, and engineering is a great example. And your code already does what it’s supposed to do!

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Do You Have The Data Agility Your Business Needs?

YoungUpstarts

One way to meet a variety of stakeholders’ needs and embrace the latest technology is to plan a multi-cloud environment by design, creating a modern data architecture that is capable of serving the broadest possible range of users. Integration Approaches for Data Agility. Traditional ETL Tools.

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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. Its a nice complement on the product engineering side to his customer development methodology.

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It’s An Agile World

Feld Thoughts

The backend infrastructure that handles all the Internet connectivity and services for a world-wide distributed technology that was built by a team of 150 engineers overseas. implemented with 2 engineers compared to an estimated 25 for the old system. It reminds me of my current project at my day job. deploys in 30 seconds.

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How much does it cost to build the world’s hottest startups?

The Next Web

Luck, timing and social engineering are bigger components than most entrepreneurs care to imagine,” adds Werdelin. With the existing product in mind, the $500,000 would be broken out evenly over the nine months with the first two months dedicated to design, specifically user architecture, brand and polish design. 3) Facebook.

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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 since I spent a long time in a hybrid CTO/VP Engineering role, I still have this nagging question. They might do anything !

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boldstart 2018 recap and what’s hot in enterprise 2019

BeyondVC

Still in second inning for enterprise move to cloud : Regardless of what economic cycle we endure, the Fortune 500 march to a cloud-native architecture will continue. While developers can now spin up applications faster than ever before, one of the downsides is the complexity of managing these distributed applications and technologies.