Architecture CTO Hire Metrics 
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 30, 2008
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 30, 2008 What does a startup CTO actually do? Often times, it seems like people are thinking its synonymous with "that guy who gets paid to sit in the corner and think technical deep thoughts" or "that guy who gets to swoop in a rearrange my project at the last minute on a whim."
Austin Startup
SEPTEMBER 18, 2017
As a CTO, I can definitely say without a doubt that few people understand what a CTO does. When I tell someone I’m a CTO, I’m often met with a blank stare. Even when someone is aware of what a CTO does, they often have limited context due to the wide variety of CTO roles.
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Startup Lessons Learned
DECEMBER 7, 2008
I know them right away - we can talk high-level architecture all the way down to the bits-and-bytes of his system. When the architecture needs modifying - why do we need a meeting? And we cant hire new engineers any faster, because you cant be interviewing and debugging and fixing all at the same time! Just change it.
www.lanceglasser.com
MAY 13, 2012
Metrics for cyclical businesses. What does a CTO do? What does a CTO do? What does a CTO (Chief Technology Officer) do in a high-tech company? So what is the CTO job? The CTO is not responsible for delivering products every quarter, but if you miss the internet or a similar technical inflection point, fire him.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 2, 2008
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 2, 2008 Just-In-Time Scalability At my previous company, we pioneered an approach to building out our infrastructure that we called "Just-In-Time Scalability." After all, the worst kind of waste in software development is code to support a use case that never materializes.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 7, 2008
We talk about taking advantages of the incredible agility offered by modern web architecture for extremely rapid deployment, etc. What about a hardware business with some long-lead-time components? Can this methodology be used for startups that are not exclusively about software? Startup Lessons Learned - the Conference (April 23.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 8, 2008
So one of the first things we did was to hire an Oracle expert and get to work. You dont need to invent a new architecture, and you dont need to even build your architecture up-front. I was building a new startup in 1999, and wanted to do it right. I had heard that all great companies built their applications on Oracle.
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