Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 30, 2008 What does a startup CTO actually do? What does your Chief Technology Officer do all day? So what does CTO mean, besides just "technical founder who really cant manage anyone?" So I initially gravitated to the CTO title, and not VP of Engineering.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 24, 2014

by Adam Root, founder and CTO of Hiplogiq. To determine whether there was real demand for SocialCentiv, I set out to collect some data. Once I saw that the initial demand was high, I decided to continue my research to find more qualitative results. A DUI lawyer? A jack-of-all-trades, I’ll-make-your-copies-too lawyer?

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Steve Blank

MAY 27, 2010

After some heroics from our CTO in extracting data from SAP, the Visio CFO loved our product, thought we could save them a ton of time and money and wanted it installed ASAP. Then Visio gave us their boilerplate contract. Finally, there was a class of what I call “business development contract terms.” We called the Visio CFO.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 16, 2020

Being relatively a new service trend in today’s tech-driven world, CTO-as-a-Service (CaaS) is notably gaining its momentum. Though CTO as a traditional full-time position exists for decades, some companies do not feel they need a technology executive. Ideal scenario assumes there’s a CTO in house. By referring to ?TO-as-a-Service

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Hearpreneur

JULY 8, 2017

Todd McGuire is the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of startup incentaHEALTH and we had to the opportunity to hear from him about starting business, the future of the company and what entrepreneurship means to him. I am the co-founder and CTO of the digital health care company incentaHEALTH. Hi, I’m Todd.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Successful demand generation campaigns break down silos between marketing and sales. Amazon’s Chief Technology Officer, Werner Vogels, summarizes the purpose of the press release: “Writing a press release up front clarifies how the world will see the product – not just how we think about it internally.”.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2016

As the company’s Commercial Manager, Hortensius was armed with the responsibility of setting up the office’s headquarters in Kuala Lumpur as well as growing the local team. Business decisions are made gradually and it’s common for either party to only initiate their demands or intentions after the second or third meeting.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

(Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996).

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BeyondVC

SEPTEMBER 5, 2007

Moving on, it is clear that red shift data requirements are only a fraction of what’s necessary to meet this exponential growth as it will put tremendous strain on the existing IT infrastructure consuming ever-increasing amounts of CPU cycles, energy, storage, and more. Ok-enough of the sales pitch. Red-shift companies tend to be Web 2.0

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 3, 2008

It is quite likely that you'll sit in the IT (CTO / CIO) function. If you are one of them you are in demand. Strategic Solutions Consultant (clearly with hype like that this a role at a vendor!). To become a internal consultant on business analytics projects (beyond web analytics).

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

In this model, you take some fraction of the lifetime value of each customer and plow that back into paid acquisition through SEM, banner ads, PR, affiliates, etc. For eBay, this is caused by the incredible network effects of their business (so-called demand-side increasing returns and supply-side increasing returns).

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

These traits of a software engineer are always in demand by a great number of companies. They can make good money consulting or working as an employee of another company. It seems like it’s somewhat of a surprise to nontechnical people that development skills are VERY high in demand. Business people have it tougher.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

This is MY American dream…and I applaud the administration, including my good friend and US CTO Aneesh Chopra, and all the organizations taking part in Startup America for highlighting and enabling the promise that exists in each individual.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 28, 2019

Blockdraws Technologies COO, Konstantinos Despotakis is a former online casino CEO and also a former Deputy Director of Compliance at the AGCC. In addition, the founder Darin Oliver, also took in Kim Lumbard, the Blockdraw’s current CTO. A lot of people in the blockchain community might criticize this new technology.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

This massive data creation and the potential for new data insights has driven explosive demands for systems that perform at both scale and speed. Some of the largest global financial institutions are evaluating BlazingDB given that current market offerings simply cannot address the demands of large scale database processing.

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ConversionXL

MAY 14, 2014

Sendi Widjaja, CTO of Avvo, first brought up CRO when he realized that different page types converted ad clicks differently. Tests with interesting results quickly get management attention , and an addictive demand for more testing invariably follows. image source.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

As a last disclaimer, please consult the definition of the word hacker if youre not familiar with the controversies surrounding that term.) Its common to find a hacker at the heart of almost any successful technology company. As the company grows, hes the go-to person for almost everything technical, and so hes very much in demand.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

The negativity either impacted investment funding (venture capital fell off a cliff in 2009) or the customers they were targeted as was the case for Untitled Partners who were building a platform for fractional art ownership. We so often see good ideas, without a good understanding of customer demand (reason number 2).

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Up and Running

MAY 13, 2015

It’s more a reflection of us having way too many roles and responsibilities, way too many demands on our time, way too many conflicting priorities. They don’t bill as much as I do, and they do the work in a fraction of time. I have a client who does business consulting. As a CTO, he noticed this.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

But as any programmer will tell you (I’m one), any lucrative contract or full time job you can get, especially these days, will usually leave you so burnt out by the end of the day that the last thing you will want to do is sit down and bang out more code. This happens a lot. Better still, write your own post :) Ron Amen.

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www.quora.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Update Link to Questions, Topics and People Add Find Questions, Topics or People Comment Jason Crawford , Co-founder & CTO at Kima Labs 25 votes by Abinash Tripathy , Anon User, Dean Blackburn , (more) Chris Dixon says it all in a post titled "There Are Two Kinds of Pe. more) Sign up for free to read the full text. This answer.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 18, 2020

New groundbreaking advances occur every year and it’s incredibly hard for new companies to adapt to that technology. Those advances change consumer preferences literally overnight — and the demands of even massive enterprise clients change almost as rapidly. Small is the new big.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Too often, upper management proclaims the importance of creativity and innovation, but then it does nothing when the demands of bolstering next quarter’s earnings trump making time for innovation, ideation and creation. My company’s CTO could get involved in financial decisions, but I don’t let him; he has his own to-do list to work on.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

" => I have not bothered to put up a landing page, survey to test customer demand, or done any customer development whatsoever. Developer, engineer, CTO, or technical co-founder? They usually have quality up and coming consultants expert in guiding you in "packaging" your idea. Rockstar v.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Do a curl (or your.NET equivalent) on each domain, and see how many are running a Windows server: I think you’ll find the fraction very small. Nothing says contraction negotiation like the smell of cordite. It was just the command shell that demanded backward slashes. I’m working for two startups right now.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

I also know someone else who consulted me about his website idea. Well as a programmer of many websites I find that it is easier for my clients to consult my ideas first. I do consult people, however I am not looking for work right now. Its best to agree to everything on the front end, and get it all in writing in a contract.

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Austin Startup

MAY 29, 2019

Meaning that most new SaaS startups we see are, in fact, nascent and therefore are trying to create their own demand, which requires a lot of evangelism and education. There are other networking effects that we will be unleashing, both natural and technological, as we progress through our multi-year strategic plan.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

So, and then the second thing is like, occasionally, a lot of people would assume I'm a technical, like CTO of a company. ER : Do you know how big of a fraction of the California vaccine rollout you guys have been? I think last week it changed from supplies to the demand. I've heard that story from a lot of folks. So around 4%.

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