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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 30, 2008 What does a startup CTO actually do? Often times, it seems like people are thinking its synonymous with "that guy who gets paid to sit in the corner and think technical deep thoughts" or "that guy who gets to swoop in a rearrange my project at the last minute on a whim."

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Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot

Startup Lessons Learned

First, because the amateurs weren’t SEC-registered, the site had to refer to them with awkward terms like “geniuses.&# “Everybody felt the burden of supporting all those transactions every day,&# says Pascal-Louis Perez, kaChing’s CTO. Within a month, kaChing observed several interesting things. says Rachleff.

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Lessons Learned: Great open source scalability tools from Danga

Startup Lessons Learned

So, for reference, I am Adam, of [link]. Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you? [link] And - of course - going through [link] and reading up on the various different approaches different companies have (successfully) taken towards getting scalability at reasonably low cost.