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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

If the CEO wants to completely change the product in order to serve a new customer segment, you need someone in the room who can digest the needs of the new (proposed) business, and lay out the costs of each possible approach. In my mind, theyre racking up costs (one month for that part, two months for that other part, uh oh).

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Email Testing: Going Beyond Open Rate and Click Rate

ConversionXL

Instead, they experimented with a new unsubscribe page, which defaulted to unsubscribing recipients from a specific email program vs. all email communication, drastically reducing the cost of an unsubscribe. Regardless of whether it’s a landing page test, an in-product test, or an email test, it requires time and resources. Skimping on rigor.

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

blog.expensify.com

Shame on you for spinning your desire for junior developers as being solely related to cost. ” My guess would have more to do with the costs of Windows Server licensing and the Visual Studio IDE than with the capabilities of.NET or C# (of which the above post demonstrates an extremely limited understanding). originalgeek.

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