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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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Bridging the Gap: How Semantic Web can move into the mainstream through SXSW

Austin Startup

I’m not trying to undermine current efforts or accomplishments; instead, look for example at the Semantic Technology conference. Jim Hendler (Professor at RPI and technology expert at data.gov). Beth Noveck (United States deputy chief technology officer for open government). Jay Myers – Best Buy.

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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

Startup Lessons Learned

In my role as a CTO, Ive always tried to choose the right tool for the right job. I personally think that the opinion about PHP in the web-developer community is way too negative. Im happy PHP existed 10 years ago, I think it got a lot of people interested in web development when the alternatives were monsters like ASP and JSP.

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7 Common Mistakes Startups Make on Accelerator Program Applications

mashable.com

Dir, Global Partnerships, UN Foundation David Jones CEO, Havas & Global CEO, Euro RSCG Worldwide Raymie Stata SVP & CTO, Yahoo! Partners W3 EDGE Concentric Sky Rackspace Intridea Dynect DNS Webtrends Global Syndication Partners ABCNews Forbes Metro USAToday Yahoo ©2005-2011 Mashable, Inc. an iPad 2 Killer? startupcto

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Social, Agile, and Transformation: Strategic Agile Thinking: Balancing Value, Innovation and Research

ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

agile software development. (46). software development. (47). startup cto. (18). web development. (12). Strategic Technology. ► 2005. (1). This Web blog are my personal opinions and creations, and not those of my current or former employers. about me. (26). business exchange. (11).

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

the meebo that launched in 2005 was a group effort – the idea primarily came from sandy being a huge IMer and having trouble getting on IM when we were working on earlier ideas in elaine’s apartment! Another interesting factor is building websites professionally also allows us to become more skillful with web development.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

My entry into web development (after 7 years of Unix development, 4 writing console games, and 3 writing router firmware) was helping my father-in-law’s company. I gather you assume that everyone’s a web developer? of computers, that for various reasons can’t be a web page” a good reason?

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