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International Student Success in Tech – A CTO’s Journey

The Startup Magazine

When International Technological University’s CTO Kranthi Lammatha was a boy in the Indian farming village of Kasipuram, he would walk nine miles to get to school every day and another nine miles to get back home in the evening. However, Kranthi loved his school and was fascinated with education itself. Looking to Solve Problems.

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How I Found a Great CTO

www.huffingtonpost.com

Ive occasionally worked with executive recruiters, for example in hiring a CTO for my first company, Eve.com. This time, I decided to handle the process myself. HuffPosts QuickRead. HuffPosts QuickRead. Minted.com is both a global design community and stationery retailer.

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Social Networking and Business Value

SoCal CTO

Companies also use social networking sites in the hiring process, and increasingly, to do innovative advertising (such as the recent Jack in the Box campaign). Many clients turn to him for advice on and negotiation of international transactions, often in Latin America. He has 20 years’ experience as CTO. in Computer Science.

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The Case for Optimism and Risk at Startups

Both Sides of the Table

I told her that I believed America’s best asset – driven initially from software innovation mindset in the San Francisco Bay Area and media innovation driven from Los Angeles – was our willingness to accept failure. We hired outside experts. Marc Berte, the CTO, and a masters from MIT, is exceptionally gifted.

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The NextView Ventures Manifesto

View from Seed

For example, in the case of one recent company that we’ve been working with for the last 7 months, we have sourced half of the new team members for the company, including their CTO, head of marketing, head of customer success, and a talented senior engineer. Belief #4: The Best Way to Spot Outliers is to be Thematic.

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What Makes an Entrepreneur? Cojones (7/11)

Both Sides of the Table

They often make great team members such as head of products, CTO, head of sales, CFO, etc. He was from South America but living in Switzerland and had launched a startup while holding down a day job at a consulting firm (McKinsey if memory serves). We weren’t ready to hire an associate yet so I offered him a summer internship.

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ReturnShip Program, Part III

OnlyOnce

I wrote about the initial concept when we launched v2 of the program , and then again when v2 concluded with the hiring of four of the six participants. We will have almost 40 Returnees in the program – but we’ve taken the program beyond Return Path and beyond our Colorado office.