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Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 30, 2008
What does your Chief Technology Officer do all day? So what does CTO mean, besides just "technical founder who really cant manage anyone?" Being a manager didnt sound fun - deep down, who really wants to be held accountable for other peoples actions? I always assumed I wouldnt manage anybody. I mean, have you seen other people?
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 1, 2009
Sloan realized that the traditional centralized management structures (like General Motors had in 1920) were poor fits for the management of GM’s already diverse product lines. Finally, GM created the notion of perpetual demand within brands by continually obsoleting their own products yearly with new models rolled out every year.
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Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 17, 2014
I’ll try to do a future blog post on some of my insights in watching Nanea enter the role and how the founders enabled her success. In our video we discussed leadership topics such as managing product and engineering teams, communication and company organization. Ownership and accountability on feature releases.
Software By Rob
AUGUST 5, 2010
Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. You’re a startup founder, whether actual or aspiring. Business books are a founder’s learning tool. The problem is that the premise of all of them – whether true or false – is irrelevant to you as a startup founder.
Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 4, 2010
Paul quotes one of his founders like this: “Thats the actual beauty in the off-the-record-ness: you hear just how screwed up most of these successful startups were on the way up.&# Failures, pivots , and crappy minimum viable products are generally elided. It makes successful founders famous. It helps companies with PR.
Startup Lessons Learned
NOVEMBER 19, 2008
This wasnt an education product - it was a pretty surprising group to find using it. What all these teachers had in common were two things: they were technology early adopters that were willing to take a chance on a new software product, and they all had similar problems organizing their classes and students. Hi Eric, Will Pate here.
Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 7, 2008
Take a look at The App Store after the gold rush - FierceDeveloper : According to a recent BusinessWeek feature , the flood of new games, productivity tools and related iPhone software is making it difficult for the vast majority of apps to crack the consumer consciousness. Retention competition is how you get people to come back to your app.
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