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How to fail as a new engineering manager
How to Avoid One of the Costliest Mistakes in Software Engineering
How to Go From Google Engineer to First-Time CTO
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Is it required to be a developer to become a CTO?
How to Survive a Groundup Rewrite without Losing Your Sanity
Javascript: Save time by avoiding re-writing these common functions
Keeping Engineers Happy and Engaged
Leadership Lessons Learned from a Female CTO
One of the biggest challenges of the tech ecosystem right now is hiring great talent
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How Best to Wake Devs Up in the Middle of the Night
On Managing Developers
On Managing Technical Teams as a First Time Founder
Keep track of activities done and yet to be done on your website
Trello
Perfect workflow for creating your own process
Scaling Engineering Teams
Being an engineering leader is different
Testing in Production, the safe way
Technical Debt
What is it, and how does it actually affect your startup?
The best advice we overheard at First Round's CTO unconference
Build strong teams with Plays
Elaine Chen on the differences between the two roles
Julia Austin on the differences between the two roles
Werner Vogels about the different CTO Roles
The Dilemma of the Startup CTO Title
The Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing
The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code
What are the current models in corporations for the role of the CTO?
Article on if such a programmer exists
Lessons from Airbnb and Eventbrite
Three Golden Rules to Finding a CTO
Trouble hiring senior engineers? It's probably you
What is the difference between VP Engineering & CTO
Handbook for New Employees
Want to Know the Difference Between a CTO and a VP Engineering?
Which is the Right Development Methodology for Your Project?
Here's what Honeypot discovered
What does a startup CTO actually do?
What I wish I knew when I became CTO
Paul Johnston about the role of a CTO
Quora Thread on the common topic
Jared Friedman explains how this approach works
Will Larson explains how to make the right decisions
Jon Levy talks about venture debt, the benefits and risks, and how to approach taking it on
Kirsty Nathooand Carolynn Levy cover these important topics in this lecture
Kirsty Nathoo is a Partner and the CFO at Y Combinator. She will talk about Startup Mechanics
YC Partner and GC Carolynn Levy detail the basics of startup financing
YC Partner and CFO Kirsty Nathoo shares the most common mistakes startups make with their finances
Carolynn Levy, Jon Levy, and YC General Counsel Jason Kwon discuss legal mechanics for startups
YC Partner Gustaf Alströmer on how much money to spend after fundraising
Here's a deep dive into why this happens and how founders should respond
What happens if you have less than 12 months of cash?
Calculator that will tell you whether, on its current trajectory, your startup lives or dies
Tim Brady explains how to calculate your companies burn rate, runway, and growth rate
When to Hire a CFO and Why You Need One
Key attributes of CFOs who fit the dream team definition
On-the-job lessons from getting a fledgling company off the ground
For SaaS, Ecommerce and other business models
Excel
12 Templates Compared for SaaS
What is a Startup Financial Model and how does it work?
Startup metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs) are important to understand
Sarah Friar (CFO of Square) & Jason Child (CFO of Opendoor)
Accounting vs. Bookkeeping, Bookkeeping Checklist for Startups and more
Several useful templates from cap tables to convertible note calculations
Other
10 Small Design Mistakes We Still Make
And a why speed is important
Principles For Designing Better Products
20+ easy to follow illustrated examples
A collection of the best design practices
7 simple & effective methods to get better at Visual/UI Design
A collection of tools for developers who have little to no artistic talent
Awesome-Design-Tools
Paper prototyping, Sketching
As a kid, I spent hours drawing and sketching ideas that popped into my head
Application usability is enhanced when the UI guides and supports users through the workflow
A guide to newcomers
Benefits of Prototypes, The Difference between Sketches and Prototypes, and more
Advice on improving the UX of your designs
A company can learn more from people sharing their experiences than from numbers in a spreadsheet
Book recommendations on UX Research, UX Design, Mobile, Accessibility & more
Rethinking Batman’s classic outfit in a user-centric way
These principles were developed based on years of experience in the field of usability
use UX research to answer critical business questions and to build more successful products
Right questions don’t simply roll off the tongue, but it’s a handy skill everyone can train
Sean Dexter writes about the necessity of wireframes during the design process
The quickest way to validate new ideas [without wasting money]
Quickly spin up a site map as part of your development process
Airtable
Digital asset management template for teams of all sizes
Comparison of the UX of 12 different fashion shopping apps
Get a high-level overview of how your design project is progressing
Organize all information to design your website or app
Miro
User Flow Chart
Whimsical
E-commerce wireframe built with Whimsical
Whimsical's tablet wireframe board
Whimsical's web app wireframe
Mobile app wireframe built with Whimsical for easy transaction
Template designed to support tracking multiple user studies in the same base
Template to track and analyze qualitative data from user research
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