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Lessons Learned: The hacker's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

Our CTO is the CEO himself, but he lacks the understanding of the new software development processes and the new technologies. In this group, I am the only technical guru with very little industry experience. In school I was being pounded day and night with anything that has to do with agile software development.

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Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice - Discussion

news.ycombinator.com

The larger point here is that in starting a startup, youre not really working on an idea so much youre working on assembling a team of people to implement the idea, learning how to build a business, how to manage customers, marketing and sales, technical support - all that stuff.