A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
AUGUST 9, 2010
If you can't find ten people who say they'll buy it, your company is bullshit. I say "find ten people who say they'll buy." If the VP of Engineering thinks the target customer is just like him/her, you're doomed. If there are millions, it's trivial to find ten. Short-sighted, no? But you're still not listening.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 30, 2008
So I initially gravitated to the CTO title, and not VP of Engineering. It became harder and harder to separate how the software is built from how the software is structured. If youre trying to design an architecture to maximize agility, how can that work if some people are working in TDD and others not?
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www.reincubate.com
FEBRUARY 1, 2010
Start-ups often hire at one extreme -- closer to a Lead Developer or VP of Engineering -- whereas corporates may focus on their CIO, which is potentially quite a different role. Dan drew up his thoughts around a job description for a web Chief Technology Officer (or Chief Technical Officer), and invited us to follow suit.
rapidrollout.wordpress.com
JANUARY 15, 2011
He or she might call himself a “consulting CTO,&# “freelance CTO,&# “on-demand CTO,&# “CTO on call,&# “CTO for hire,&# or just a “technology strategy advisor.&# If you find him, he’s gold, and not only because of his knowledge and experience.
Startup Lessons Learned
DECEMBER 7, 2008
Its common to find a hacker at the heart of almost any successful technology company. When I want to know about some concurrency issues between services in his cluster, he doesnt blink an eye when I suggest we get the source code and take a look. He throws off volumes of code, and it works. Just change it.
Seeing Both Sides
AUGUST 16, 2012
“TripAdvisor is to travel reviews what Kleenex is to tissues.”. . TripAdvisor may be one of the most fascinating companies I know and so I was excited to dig into their business model as part of my series on scaling. Kaufer originally hired writers to product professional reviews and allowed user reviews on a whim.
blog.expensify.com
APRIL 24, 2012
Update: The end is near, Expensify is hiring a.NET programmer! As you might know, we’re hiring the best programmers in the world. But finding such people is more than a full time job. Indeed, I spend about half my time on it, while Lisa spends about all hers. Expensify Blog. Sunday edit : Still going!
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