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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

Ive forecasted the issues you have spoken of without entertaining the thoughts of solutions like you have. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica.

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It's a startup, not a spreadsheet

Startup Lessons Learned

Companies that reliably fail to make their forecasted numbers are exceptionally prone to “management retooling.&# Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ▼ 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica.

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John Doerr's 10 lean startup tips

Startup Lessons Learned

Get 18 months or more of cash (runway) in the business against a conservative forecast. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. Act now, act with speed. Use Google Apps.

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The Principles of Product Development Flow

Startup Lessons Learned

After all, when upper management has been told a project will succeed for 4 years, it is very hard for anyone in middle management to stand up and reverse this forecast. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. It becomes a death march where all participants know they are doomed, but no one has the power to stop.

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Lessons Learned: Five Whys

Startup Lessons Learned

Because five whys kept turning up a few key metrics that were hard to set static thresholds for, we even had a dynamic prediction algorithm that would make forecasts based on past data, and fire alerts if the metric ever went out of its normal bounds. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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10 years of entrepreneurship

Startup Lessons Learned

Talking about trends is more about trying to forecast the future, like a guru, sometimes it works, sometimes not. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ▼ 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. About spot trends.