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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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The unimportance of product names

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Search is the way most people wind up finding us anyhow. I’ve lost weeks of work on projects because I was trying to search for that perfect name + domain. Search is the way most people wind up finding us anyhow.” Kadir, I’m not saying that people don’t need to know the name of your product.

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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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How to Structure Your Optimization and Experimentation Teams

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Chad Sanderson, the Experience Optimization Manager for Subway, creates an analogy for how the centralized model is set up: Chad Sanderson, Subway. But one who is invested in testing might notice an unusually high bounce rate and use of the search bar on this page; she realizes that visitors aren’t finding what they’re looking for.

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Finding Your Co-Founders

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Chad and Steve from YouTube met while working at PayPal. Do a search in Twitter for #startupvisa to learn more. More often than not, a startup/company fails because the product developed is not what the marketplace sought. But at the end of the day, it is about a product being accepted. link] Vince WOW!!!

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CXL Live 2019 Recap: Takeaways from Every Speaker

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Will Critchlow: “What If Your Winning CRO Tests Are Screwing Up Your Search Traffic? Chad Sanderson: “Aligning Experimentation Across Product Development and Marketing”. People closer to the product have more pull in the business. If you have both, you can (3) scale; otherwise, you scale the wrong thing.

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What is the perfect startup team?

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Quora Home About Login Sign Up Add Question Before adding a question, search for it above. He correctly identifies the three disciplines that have to be represented in a balanced and collaborative manner: developer, designer, distributer. Note: in a non-tech environment these would be R&D, product development, and sales/marketing.