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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. Lisa Nicole Bell , Inspired Life Media Group.)

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Announcing a Deal I’ve Wanted to Talk About for a Year

Both Sides of the Table

I first met Ethan in 2005. BuildOnline (the company I founded) has just announcement plans to be more aggressive in growing in the US. ” But I went back to the office and talked with Stuart Lander & David Lapter and said, “no prizes for guessing which job Ethan’s going to take.”

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Social Networking and Business Value

SoCal CTO

Tony Karrer, CEO/CTO of TechEmpower Speaker Bios: Jason Oberfest, Senior Vice President, Business Development of MySpace Jason Oberfest is Senior Vice President, Business Development at MySpace, as well as SVP and GM, MySpace Open Platform. He has 20 years’ experience as CTO. Before that, he was VP, Client Strategy at Blast Radius.

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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. Thus, 6 months after graduation when I was contemplating leaving my job, the risks felt enormous.

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Rally Software Acquired By CA Technologies for $480 Million

Feld Thoughts

I remember my friend Ryan Martens sitting down with me and Chris Wand around 2001 and walking us through his idea for changing the how he approached managing the software development process. Ryan had a vision for an integration web-based system to layer on top of all of this to help support and manage the software development process.

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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. Given the key roles of product manager and UX designers, any potential trainer must understand how these people work with an Agile delivery team. See [link] 3.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

Both Sides of the Table

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. Another called Parker Harris, the co-founder and CTO. The managing partner of the firm called me the next day. After Office 2.0 we had about 25 firms contacting us – more than I could manage. At the end of this post I’ll tell you what he said.