Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

So I initially gravitated to the CTO title, and not VP of Engineering. But since I spent a long time in a hybrid CTO/VP Engineering role, I still have this nagging question. I want to add one last idea, even though I recognize it is controversial, bordering on the boundary between the CTO and VP Engineering. Heres my take.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Luckily, Chad Austin has recently weighed in with an excellent piece called 10 Pitfalls of Dirty Code. IMVU was started with a particular philosophy: We dont know what customers will like, so lets rapidly build a lot of different stuff and throw away what doesnt work. But it worked. We made it. So can you.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

It is right that Google and Facebook pride themselves on being engineering organizations (note - so did Microsoft). It is interesting to see the emphasis that both Twitter and Quora have put on product design, not just engineering. are just emerging for business people (customer development, business model generation,).

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