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The curse of prevention

Startup Lessons Learned

In the past, we invested in brilliant architecture, code reuse, refactoring, modular design, etc. If we’re practicing continuous deployment, we can be confident that we’ll be able to rush an emergency fix into production without risking introducing further problems.

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

If youre trying to design an architecture to maximize agility, how can that work if some people are working in TDD and others not? Platform selection and technical design - if your business strategy is to create a low-burn, highly iterative lean startup, youd better be using foundational tools that make that easy rather than hard.

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The cardinal sin of community management

Startup Lessons Learned

or their privileging of only certain designers featured in Showcase and promos. I can't do anything for the hurt you experienced in the past, other than to apologize on behalf of all platform designers out there. Loyalty is not something that people distribute to all and any that they come into contact with regardless of warrant.

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