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Lessons Learned: Continuous deployment and continuous learning

Startup Lessons Learned

Our tests suite takes nine minutes to run (distributed across 30-40 machines). Luckily, Chad Austin has recently weighed in with an excellent piece called 10 Pitfalls of Dirty Code. It would be hard to argue against this product development strategy, in general. I am not a developer. If the deploy succeeds, repeat.

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

Own the development methodology - in a traditional product development setup, the VP Engineering or some other full-time manager would be responsible for making sure the engineers wrote adequate specs, interfaced well with QA, and also run the scheduling "trains" for releases. Labels: product development 15comments: mukund said.

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Finding Your Co-Founders

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Chad and Steve from YouTube met while working at PayPal. great article Seth, powerful insight for those curious [link] Manish Jain Great advice: In consumer internet, that usually means one front-end user-facing developer, one back-end server-side developer, and ultimately a business person. If so, drop me an email at s10.oleynik

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CXL Live 2018 Recap: Top 5 Lessons from Each Speaker

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How many emails do you get cc’d or bcc’d on? email: use data to send highly personalized message by pulling data from across sources (e.g. Ezra Firestone – What Works in Email Marketing Right Now. Email & ads are the 2 big communication channels. On avg $1 spent on email returns $38. Corporate Agility.

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CXL Live 2019 Recap: Takeaways from Every Speaker

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Optimizing email, social, etc., Ryan Thomas: “Optimizing for Email Signups”. Email capture can sometimes work against your primary goals Ex. Fit for the test: Normal tests assume independence and that error is normally distributed. When someone joins an email course or downloads a lead magnet, ask them point blank.