A day in the life of a startup CTO
I’ve thought it would be cool to write a blog post about the randomness and full-stackness of being a CTO at a small startup. So here is a summary of my day today, which started at 6:45 AM and it’s finishing at 9:15PM:
- Triage new bugs logged on Jira.
- Check with all developers and designers if they are on track on their sprint tasks and if there are any blockers.
- Logged a bug a friend sent me via email.
- Sent a quick email to the team to remind them to soft-launch features at least a day ahead of official announcement date.
- Worked on a feature we are launching in a couple of weeks
- Talked to a lawyer to register a trademark of a name we are using on the product.
- Missed a 1PM call with an important partner. My bad.
- Interviewed a Mobile developer via Skype.
- Sent a podcast to the sales team with relevant information to help them do their job better.
- Worked on a 12-month Strategic roadmap document.
- Sent a data partner some feedback on a new prototype pedometer they will launch later in the year
- Looked at error logs and found some new issues, filed a few bugs.
- Fixed a handful of bugs/crashes on the site.
- Screened three resumes for mobile developers.
- Exchange several emails about strategy and big thoughts on the future of EveryMove with my CEO.
- Got a trademark infringement email from Apple. App rejected. Need to get permissions from partner to use its name.
- Checked NewRelic for some Mobile API performance issue.
- Discussed with two other developers a solution for a pesky database timeout issue we are having.
- Reviewed July 2013 financials for EveryMove.
- Send an email to the team to test the featured mentioned above before the big launch.
- Write a blog post about what I did today.
