mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

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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www.bothsidesofthetable.com

MAY 13, 2012

Want to Know Difference Between a CTO and a VP of Engineering? Because more technology people probably read startup blogs I’m guessing this post will come under more scrutiny. I hope many will read this and have an answer for the question, “what’s the different between a CTO and a VP of Engineering?”

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 29, 2020

Drivenets is aiming high, with the strategic objective of creating infrastructure for managing a huge portion of global data in the coming decades. Intezer.com is headed by Itai Tevet, the CEO, Roy Halevi the CTO, and Alon Cohen Executive Chairman and Founding Investor. Namogoo.com.

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ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

JULY 11, 2012

Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover several topics including agile software development, software startups, web 2.0, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 Strategic Agile Thinking: Balancing Value, Innovation and Research. 2) The agile "happy place". and business transformation.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 6, 2013

Vinod Khosla Founder Dave McClure Founding Partner Eric Ries Author Steve Blank Serial Entrepreneur & Professor Todd Park CTO Travis Kalanick CEO & Co-Founder Joe Zadeh Director of Product Sam Shank Co-Founder & CEO NEW! Nicole Lazzaro President Udi Nir CTO NEW!

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 28, 2015

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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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 20, 2011

19 of the 21 teams are moving forward in commercializing their technology. In July I got a call from Errol Arkilic , a program manager at the National Science Foundation (NSF), the $6.8-billion We taught them the business model / customer development / agile development solution stack. This week we saw the results. billion U.S.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2017

For example, if a chief executive officer manages the daily operation, a chief entrepreneur heads up innovation efforts. And the chief entrepreneur has a staff of chief portfolio manager, chief venture capitalist, and chief risk officer, right? I've never done that before.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

He wrote a post this long weekend on how he manages the board of DataSift. In this period (less than 2 years) he has brought on incredibly talented senior execs is sales, marketing, product management, client services, finance, vp engineering and more. Manages board meeting expectations (before & after). You should read it.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

There are several lines of effort that we’re focusing on: We’re working to build the Space Force as a very Lean and Agile service. I want folks managing their programs, not managing the Pentagon bureaucracy. It is trying to do things differently, building a lean and agile organization.

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Board Effect

JANUARY 15, 2020

Digital governance assigns clear accountability for who has decision-making authority for managing all digital tools and processes for the organization and it assigns accountability for the same. Digital governance helps to keep organizations agile, nimble and adaptable, which is necessary in today’s age of evolution and disruption.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

A founder’s lack of credibility/experience in growing and managing a large company hindered a company that wanted to go public. If the founder was lucky, he got to stay as chairman or CTO. Schmidt had been the CEO of Novell and previously CTO of Sun Microsystems. If he wasn’t, he told stories of how “VCs stole my company.”.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

(Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. But I managed a few "good learning experiences" before throwing myself full-bore into IMVU. So much for timing.

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Steve Blank

JULY 7, 2015

He later co-founded and served as CTO of IMVU and then authored The Lean Startup. On Being the First Practitioner of Lean : “ For me the challenge was how do you systematize this and turn it into a management practice that actually does not just have people pay lip service to it but really actually do it.”.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 30, 2015

They enjoy the same advantages as other SMEs, such as the agility to respond quickly to market changes, a collaborative DNA that fosters innovation, and the absence of the institutional inertia that often plagues larger organizations [7]. They might look more like Vast.com, a big data solutions provider for homebuyers. 3] Varian, H.,

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SVPG

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Moreover, we also know that more often than not, the technology enables the solution as much as the solution driving the technology (see [link] ). In IT mindset companies, you usually find very slow, heavy, Waterfall processes, even when the engineers consider themselves Agile. 4) Staffing. 5) Funding. 6) Process.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. So far, I have found "lean startup" works better with the entrepreneurs Ive talked to than "agile startup" or even "extreme startup.") Of course, many startups are capital efficient and generally frugal.

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Venture Chronicles

AUGUST 2, 2013

Compounding the problem is that we became victim of agile engineering in a poorly structured development organization where there were no clear teams focused on building to the user archetypes and investing in the platform. Lastly, a foundational skill of great product managers is GSD. We should have been able to do both.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 9, 2013

Do not fall into the trap of Startups and a Common Misunderstanding in Agile Software Development. Is there a project manager? Some project managers get in the way of effective communication. Are they asking good questions? You should be getting an estimate for the work effort before you get started. They will give you a quote.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 8, 2013

Following is a guest post on DevOps by Gene Kim , Multiple Award-Winning CTO, Researcher, Visible Ops Co-Author, Entrepreneur & Founder of Tripwire. manageability, scalability, reliability, security, and so forth). Entrepreneurship business Cloud Computing DevOps management Wall Street' That moment is now. Long live DevOps!

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bijoor.me

MARCH 26, 2014

Conversation Management. Sales Activity Management. Technology. Affordable Technology. Agile Development. Information & knowledge management. Workflow Management. Thanks to Alex Popsecu’s NoSql blog , found a well articulated thesis by Johan den Haan , CTO at Mendix. Cloud Computing.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

We wanted an agile approach that would allow us to build our software architecture as we needed it, without downtime, but also without large amounts of up-front cost. You can also download our presentation, " Just-In-Time Scalability: Agile Methods to Support Massive Growth." Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2010

To shed some light, I talked with kaChing , a destination that enables individual investors to find outstanding money managers to manage their money. kaChing launched a virtual portfolio management game on Facebook in January 2008 and a similar version shortly thereafter on kaChing.com.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

In a few cases, they are clearly smart people in a bad situation, and Ive written about their pain in The product managers lament and The engineering managers lament. The last thing you need is a manager telling you how to do your job. If youve ever been abused by a bad manager in your career, its easy to become traumatized.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

By learning to be rapidly responsive and agile. Monday, September 19 - Toronto My only Canadian stop on the tour is in Toronto at the Rotman School of Management. So how is it best to deal with uncertainty? How does an organization like this thrive? Ries wants to show you how. Presented by the Town Hall Center for Civic Life.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

In addition to presenting the IMVU case, we tried for the first time to do an overview of a software engineering methodology that integrates practices from agile software development with Steves method of Customer Development. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Expo SF (May.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Web Startup Lessons Advice from a CTO and Entrepreneur Home About Finding a Technical Partner for Your Startup Today I received an inquiry from a student at an Ivy League university who wants to launch a web startup. Look out for teams/vendors who work on Agile, so that you are flexible with your requirements.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

Deputy Chief Technology Officers Cori Zarek and Ryan Panchadsaram to help all levels of government with COVID-19 response and delivery of services. Deputy Chief Technology Officer in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy from 2013–2014, where she founded the United States Digital Service.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, September 10, 2008 Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your code right now Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your code right now A great checklist of techniques and tools for making your development more agile, written from a Rail perspective. Expo SF (May.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 24, 2014

To put it into management speak, our digital infrastructure is world-class. Think of Werner Vogels (CTO of Amazon), Guido van Rossem (founder of Python programming language and senior engineer at Dropbox) or the more senior Gerard Kleisterlee (chairman of Vodafone). A top-notch infrastructure.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

And the back-end is something that a non-technical founder can manage. Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers Technology Roles in Startups Want to Know the Difference Between a CTO and a VP Engineering? WordPress is pretty easy to hack. We end up using WordPress a lot as the marketing front-end of our web sites.

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SVPG

MARCH 18, 2012

Recently I was asked by a very smart CTO: "I understand the need for a great user experience designer, but if we have a strong designer, and that person is paired with a strong technology lead, do we really still need a product manager?". For many teams, the contribution of the product manager is not at all clear.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 22, 2009

Each has its own iterative process: customer development and agile development respectively. At this meeting, we would present our goals for the cycle, all the raw results wed managed to collect, and our conclusions about what was next. As the CTO/VP Engineering, I was the worst offender. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

I am convinced one of Joel Spolskys lasting contributions to the field of managing software teams will turn out to be the Joel Test , a checklist of 12 essential practices that you could use to rate the effectiveness of a software product development team. Please leave feedback!) Can you make a build in one step? Youd better. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 1, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 1, 2008 Test-Driven Development as andon cord You cannot control what you cannot see, and the hardest part of managing software projects is that the final product is so intangible. In almost all Agile Development systems, thousands of automated tests are run against every change to the software.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Labels: agile , listening to customers 3comments: hauteroute said. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? Split-test experiments that go on forever?

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Kent, a veteran programmer, a founder of the Agile method and the creator of Extreme Programming, came armed with anecdotes and lessons from his own experience, as well as a few questions for Eric. So if we are the managers, if we are the leaders, then we have to look in the mirror. We changed the work.”

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