CTO Hire Founder Lean Restful 
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 16, 2009
I’ll talk in a separate post about dealing with B or C players, the rest of this post focuses on your star performers. Ryan was the most talented technologist we had hired at BuildOnline. We hired Ryan at a really young age and without a tremendous amount of prior experience. One example was Ryan Lissack.
Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 4, 2008
So if youre new, consider not paying any attention to the rest of this post, and just diving into the archives, if you havent already. Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) Ive founded and self-funded a (lean) startup on my own.
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Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 10, 2008
Heres my favorite part: If youve got a team, part of the team should obsess about the backlist, honing it, editing it and promoting it, while the rest work to generate (as opposed to promote) the frontlist. I’ve been in the software industry for a long time. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.
Startup Lessons Learned
MAY 7, 2009
Starting instead from a position where feedback cycle time is the priority and allowing quality to ratchet up as the product matures provides a more natural lead in to continuous deployment. The rest of the post, which you can read here , discusses the application of these principles to other contexts. I recommend you take a look.
Austin Startup
AUGUST 11, 2017
By Kevin Sproles, founder and CEO of Austin’s Volusion “The best companies are deliberate about culture. The co-founder of Hubspot hit it on the head with this quote. When we were left to our own devices in that conference room, our CTO and I wrote down our goals, our aspirations, our fears, and everything in between.
techcrunch.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. Nine times out of ten, the meeting ends with them asking me for introductions to VCs. Inevitably, the excuses begin: I need to hire people to build the product. No phone system.
Up and Running
MARCH 11, 2015
As the former co-founder and CEO of two technology companies, Caroline has experienced both start-up failures and successes, and has raised close to $1 million in investment capital. I wanted to make sure we got it out there, the idea of how does one find a good co-founder? This is why we love the lean startup methodology.
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