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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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8 ways to incorporate customer feedback into your startup’s strategy

The Next Web

So I asked a panel of successful young entrepreneurs the following: How specifically do you incorporate customer feedback into your product development process, and what big wins have you seen as a result? Utilize Support-Driven Development. We focus on customer feedback through support-driven development.

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4 Things Entrepreneurs Should Ignore From the Steve Jobs Formula

ReadWriteStart

Every product is built in isolation and while the details of Apple's product development process are not that "open" either from what I've heard often engineers don't even have a full picture of the product they are building. The Steve Jobs Formula and Why It Works. Don't Be Secretive. Go Anti-Stealth.

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Hard lessons lead to success – the story of RealLead

Up and Running

That’s when Chad Barczak and Jeff Kast came along and asked if she’d like to join them in starting RealLead , a mobile marketing lead capture tool and lead marketplace for buying and selling real estate leads. They were able to recruit a top-notch programmer, who got their core mobile product developed quickly.

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Lessons Learned: Continuous deployment and continuous learning

Startup Lessons Learned

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. Labels: agile , continuous deployment , lean startup , product development , Test-driven development 4comments: Nivi said.

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The unimportance of product names

37signals.com

I definitely agree you shouldn’t get caught up on the URL , as there are endless ways of getting a good url to relate well to your biz or product. However, I do think a good amount of thought should be put in to the name of a product or biz. . it should relate to your product directly or indirectly. 27 Apr 10.

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CXL Live 2018 Recap: Top 5 Lessons from Each Speaker

ConversionXL

Chad Sanderson – The Statistical Pitfalls of A/B Testing. Be agile, move at the speed of business, don’t hold up product development. AI can dramatically increase your testing velocity. You can use AI even when you haven’t mastered traditional testing. Stat pitfalls at #CXLLive pic.twitter.com/iupyJ8mPy3.

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