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HOW TO: Hire the Perfect CTO

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A great CTO thinks about product before code, they think of the value the product is creating, and they know how to effectively lead developers. Check out Mashable Explore , a new way to discover information on your favorite Mashable topics. They need to be able to communicate as a peer to engineers and management. startupcto

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How to Build a User Research Culture

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At Samsung, user research led the company to redesign its televisions in 2005, doubling their market share in just two years. Reviewing real-time user tests to understand users’ thought processes as they try to complete a task on a website. Encourage anyone involved in product development to observe in-person user testing sessions.

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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

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Unfortunately, either information asymmetry or physical distances and the resulting distribution costs can both cut against the economic advantages that would otherwise arise for all. Launched in 2005, Etsy is a leading marketplaces for the exchange of vintage and handmade items. The company was acquired by ebay in January 2007.

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

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Starting in 2005 with 300 attendees from a variety of backgrounds (research, academia and entrepreneurs), this past conference had 1200 attendees from large enterprises, government and a lot more startups and entrepreneurs. Even more time consuming than maintaining repetitive code, though, is maintaining repetitive information.

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LinkedIn Explores What It Takes To Be an Entrepreneur [INFOGRAPHIC]

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Engineering, physics and computer science majors were the most likely to start a company, while nursing, administration and social work majors were the least likely. September 1, 2011 09:04:39 Reply 0 Flag this comment jamespmedd Follow Interesting information but an awful looking infographic! Pretty terrible.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

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The best composition is probably one engineer whose passion lies in the pixels on the screen and another engineer whose passion is making bits fly really fast through servers. link] Kevin Pruett This information is so obvious, but often overlooked or under-executed. Engineers don’t always have the best business ideas.

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What Google's Penguin Algorithm Means for Your Business

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For a while, everyone was hailing Penguin as putting a stop to over-optimization, which while true, caused a lot of people to adjust their website so heavily that it wasn’t even optimized at all. That’s how search engines know what your site is about. People love information. That boiled down to keywords. That’s spam.