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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

Massive proprietary databases? The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? How to listen to customers, and not just the loud. I dont think so. Can the company dig into its tools when they fail and fix them? No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

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

Startup Lessons Learned

Do you have a bug database? The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? How to listen to customers, and not just the loud. For more on continuous deployment, see Just-in-time Scalability. Joels Painless Bug Tracking is still the gold standard.

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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? How to listen to customers, and not just the loud. MogileFS - "Distributed (meta) file system.