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When Should Technical Founders Become CEO?

Both Sides of the Table

Much has been written about when it is time to hire a “professional CEO” to run a startup company and of course that has long been a norm in Silicon Valley when founders find that their inexperience may be a limiting factor in company growth ( know as the Peter Principle ).

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Integrating Active Directory With Your SaaS Tool Stack

ConversionXL

Since the release of Windows Server 2009 and subsequent launches, there are some updates to protected logins now, including: i). As a core feature of Windows Server, AD FS was primarily developed as a platform—not an end-to-end solution for authenticating single sign-on needs. Onboarding goes beyond hiring new employees.

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Inspiring Entrepreneurs: Ted Livingston’s rollercoaster ride as CEO of hit messaging startup Kik

The Next Web

At the end of my four-month term, they brought me on part-time to run a team that built out a system around the software I’d developed at night.”. We knew it had to be something big, something that, by the time they copied it and put it on BlackBerry, it really didn’t matter,” he says. The native platform.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

Tweet View Comments Guest Author Sep 20, 2009 This guest post was written by Meebo CEO Seth Sternberg. Inevitably, the excuses begin: I need to hire people to build the product. I don’t know any developers. How To Get There. Like I said, forget everything else and just get your product out the door. No phone system.

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

blog.expensify.com

Update: The end is near, Expensify is hiring a.NET programmer! Or, rather, more offensively to Facebook and Google employees, less offensive to.NET developers, though the underlying message is the same.). As you might know, we’re hiring the best programmers in the world. Expensify Blog. Some additional comments at the end.

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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 12, 2009 Why PHP won When I first learned to program on the web, Perl + CGI was the dominant platform. But by the time I was building my first websites for commercial use , PHP had taken over. And yet I keep returning to PHP as a development platform, as have most of my fellow startup CTOs.

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Predictive Analytics in 2018: What’s Possible, Who’s Doing It, and How

ConversionXL

In 2009, Netflix offered $1 million to anyone who could improve the quality of its recommendation engine by 10%. Increasingly powerful systems cracked open the door for real-time predictive analytics. A world of real-time predictions. For some, the age of “real-time” predictive analytics is here. Data, data, and data.

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