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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

What does your Chief Technology Officer do all day? When Ive asked mentors of mine who have worked in big companies about the role of the CTO, they usually talk about the importance of being the external face of the companys technology platform; an evangelist to developers, customers, and employees. Heres my take.

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Lessons Learned: A new version of the Joel Test (draft)

Startup Lessons Learned

Do you have a bug database? Its incredibly hard to do. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. For more on continuous deployment, see Just-in-time Scalability.

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Lessons Learned: Lean hiring tips

Startup Lessons Learned

I want to talk specifics, and when you come right down to it, most technology startups dont have a very interesting cost structure. They maintain a huge database of passive candidates, by offering to pay them when they interview. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

*All* of the factors involved in delivering software are affected by starting with baseline requirements that are constrained to what the system should do and the process artifacts desired (say 5 forms reading and writing a database store). The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Lessons Learned: Great open source scalability tools from Danga

Startup Lessons Learned

For tips on how to integrate it into your database and application layers, you can see the tail-end of my JIT Scalability talk. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Three of my favorite: memcached - an in-memory object caching system. Seth Godin: How often should you publish?

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Lessons Learned: The hacker's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

Its common to find a hacker at the heart of almost any successful technology company. A really good technology executive can notice problems like the ones Im talking about today and address them proactively. Thats the ultimate task for the companys technology leadership. Hire a CTO or VP Engineering. Does this sound familiar?

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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

Startup Lessons Learned

PHP has always scored well on this count, with lots of support for database drivers, URL parsing, HTTP fetching, regular expressions - you name it. However, it made me remember that Im tired of technology arguments. Honestly, the PEAR database is nothing compared to CPAN. January 16, 2009 2:02 PM Chrissaid. Nice article.

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