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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."
I spent some time with his company before the conference and discussed ways to get started with continuousdeployment , including my experience introducing it at IMVU. Moreover, approaching the problem from the direction that I had intuitively is a recipe for never reaching a point where continuousdeployment is feasible.
If you havent seen it, Pascals recent presentation on continuousdeployment is a must-see; slides are here. “Everybody felt the burden of supporting all those transactions every day,&# says Pascal-Louis Perez, kaChing’s CTO. “It took a ton of our time, and just wasn’t contributing to our long term vision.&#
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. Beware the new hire who has "extensive experience" in startups or big companies - using a different growth driver. Case Study: Continuousdeployment makes releases n.
But if you want to practice rapid deployment, you need to be able to deploy that build in one step as well. If you want to do continuousdeployment, youd better be able to certify that build too, which brings us to. For more on continuousdeployment, see Just-in-time Scalability. Youd better.
Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) Eric, I landed upon your blog when I was searching for the path to CTO a couple of months back and I have been a frequent to the site since then. Please email me if you are interested. You are a great blogger.
And we cant hire new engineers any faster, because you cant be interviewing and debugging and fixing all at the same time! Even with the highest standards imaginable, theres no way to hire just genius hackers. Hire a CTO or VP Engineering. Worst of all, your teammates are constantly wanting to have meetings.
As the CTO/VP Engineering, I was the worst offender. A good example is Paypal realizing that their customers were gravitating to the email-payments part of their original solution, and ignoring the complex PDA-based cryptography solution. Case Study: Continuousdeployment makes releases n.
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Still, I thought Id share this email that happened to arrive during class. Labels: agile , continuousdeployment , customer development , events , listening to customers , slides 3comments: Sean Murphy said. Feel free to email me (startuplessonslearned-eric@sneakemail.com). Sure, Id be delighted to.
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If you have a minute, post your answers in a comment, or email me. Heard about O'Reilly video from "So you want to be an entrepreneur" blog 3)I subscribed in spite of the fact that I just pruned my email , twitter and Google reader feeds down to the bone. Case Study: Continuousdeployment makes releases n.
is something like "yes, I personally answer the customer support emails." For example, my experience with teenagers is that they are very reluctant to call or email asking for support, even when they have a severe problem. Case Study: Continuousdeployment makes releases n. Dont confuse passion with volume.
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Labels: agile , continuousdeployment 1 comments: timothyfitz said. Case Study: Continuousdeployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuousdeployment for mission-critical applica. and more ► January (6) Lo, my 18891 subscribers, who are you?
You might get a bunch of inbound emails from other press and partners, and all of these things can contribute to a feeling that you’re on your way to getting tons of traffic. Case Study: Continuousdeployment makes releases n. It strokes your ego. Problem is, you inevitably become yesterday’s old news.
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After an hour with a team talking dirty about deployment, youll know. Case Study: Continuousdeployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuousdeployment for mission-critical applica. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0,
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 29, 2008 Q&A with an actual reader One of my favorite things about having a blog is the feedback I get in comments and by email. Case Study: Continuousdeployment makes releases n. Hes also a blogger, at Inquiries Into Alignment ). Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Ha.
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So one of the first things we did was to hire an Oracle expert and get to work. Case Study: Continuousdeployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuousdeployment for mission-critical applica. 1 comments: flixsterwidgettest said. yeah, its awesome.
As a lot of work seems to progress using email, Google Docs is a natural progression, while allowing our team to upload items and progression without meeting face to face or sending off a number of repetitive emails. Case Study: Continuousdeployment makes releases n. Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Ha.
Drop me an email (startuplessonslearned-eric@sneakemail.com) if youre interested and Ill see what I can do. of course, the most convincing narrative usually belongs to the hippo: [link] and when you remove objectivity from your startup, you are going to have a hard time sustaining successful decision making. wow, dead on.
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thanks for the mention:) September 17, 2008 11:56 AM Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Subscribe via email Blog Archive ► 2010 (48) ► October (3) Case Study: Rapid iteration with hardware The Lean Startup Bundle Stop lying on stage ► September (4) Good enough never is (or is it?)
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At IMVU, when wed hire a new engineer, we could get them to ship code to production on their first day, even if they had never programmed in PHP before. Which makes them exactly the kind of programmers companies should want to hire. In my role as a CTO, Ive always tried to choose the right tool for the right job.
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