Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2009

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. If not, maybe an investment in that direction would be more warranted. If not, maybe an investment in that direction would be more warranted.

San Francisco 133

San Francisco Architecture Lean Continuous Deployment 133

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

In my roles as CTO for various startups, its been an interesting repeating cycle for the CTO to have to wear lots of hats especially in the early days: from start-up systems architect to code monkey to development manager to ops manager then finally to CTO as the business scales over time and these roles warrant dedicated full-time staff.

CTO 168

CTO Fractional CTO CTO Hire Technical Review 168

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

There was also a litany of errors made in determining which developers had in fact passed UFI products into the catalog warranting their punishment. Somehow, despite this greater focus on listening to customers, IMVU continues to either not hear, or not regard that the vast majority of users do not want to police the catalog for IMVU.

Community 158

Community Management Lean Software Review 158