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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

When Ive asked mentors of mine who have worked in big companies about the role of the CTO, they usually talk about the importance of being the external face of the companys technology platform; an evangelist to developers, customers, and employees. Thats an important job, for sure, and Ive been called upon to do it from time to time.

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Lessons Learned: The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time

Startup Lessons Learned

The goal is to have split-testing be a continuous part of our development process, so much so that it is considered a completely routine part of developing a new feature. The new design improved on the old one in several ways, but these improvements didnt translate all the way through the funnel.

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Lessons Learned on Mashable today

Startup Lessons Learned

Here in Tampa, our biggest challenge is convincing the regions technology "leadership" that grassroots economic development is a good thing. My startup business (web development) is being shunned by virtually every other potential investor I approached thus far. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Lessons Learned: Lean hiring tips

Startup Lessons Learned

In fact, unless you are adding capacity to a bottleneck in your development process, you probably should not be hiring at all. Particularly the Continuous Deployment and Split testing posts. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? The blog is fantastic as well.

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Lessons Learned: Greasemonkey compiler

Startup Lessons Learned

I know some of those compilers are no longer available (some are hosted, others are not), so I took the liberty of putting up a copy of the PHP Greasemonkey Compiler. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Waves of technology platforms

Startup Lessons Learned

Meanwhile, we were building our app in PHP, using a generic DB driver and mysql, "for the time being." The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you?

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Fear is the mind-killer

Startup Lessons Learned

I spent some time with his company before the conference and discussed ways to get started with continuous deployment , including my experience introducing it at IMVU. Moreover, approaching the problem from the direction that I had intuitively is a recipe for never reaching a point where continuous deployment is feasible.