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HOW TO: Hire the Perfect CTO

mashable.com

This is especially true when it comes to tech companies hiring the wrong chief technology officer. Today, CTOs are multi-taskers that aren’t just coders locked in some basement — they play a vital role in a tech company’s strategic plan and growth. Zach Cutler , The Cutler Group.

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

Continuing my series of posts that I’ve been collecting that live at the intersection of Startups and being a Startup CTO : Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March here are the top posts from May 2010. This is a great configuration for a starting team. question at least once a month. Should I Get My MBA?

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Social Networking and Business Value

SoCal CTO

For the past 26 years, Majid has founded, led, turned-around and merged several companies in various industries, as well as providing consulting services to corporate executives in the areas of technology, governance, turn-around and strategy. He has 20 years’ experience as CTO. Dr. Karrer taught Computer Science for eleven years.

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Selecting An Agile Coach

SVPG

Starting around 2004 and 2005 I began seeing an increasing number of teams moving to Agile, and of course the first thing they needed was training and often some coaching. The Agile trainer must understand that capability and experience level of the engineers is typically very different from IT, and adjust their approach accordingly.

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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Kayak was started here in my backyard of Boston… co-founder & CTO Paul English and the product/engineering team is based here in Concord MA. What They Do: Travel search engine. round closed Feb 2005. Last week ZipCar began trading and has a market cap of about $1 billion. Series B Preferred.

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Understanding The Role Of The Chief Behind The Chief

Duct Tape Marketing

One when scale started to kick in, when we hit the, you know, 200 employees at the head office, 2000 employees system wide, it started to get complex and a little bit outside of my sandbox. I started to appear where we started to leverage or talk about technology and automations and optimization. And then secondly was the text.

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Oppose HB 1192 – The “Software Tax”

VC Adventure

I grew up on a family potato farm in SE Idaho and I have a PhD in Engineering from Stanford (also known as The Farm). I have been in the technology industry for 30+ years. I serve as adjunct faculty at the University of Denver, where I head up a graduate program division in healthcare information technology within University College.