rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Web Startup Lessons Advice from a CTO and Entrepreneur Home About Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO There are not many to be found. He or she might call himself a “consulting CTO,&# “freelance CTO,&# “on-demand CTO,&# “CTO on call,&# “CTO for hire,&# or just a “technology strategy advisor.&#

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devver.wordpress.com

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Boulder CTO December Lunch with Tim Wolters with 5 comments The Boulder CTO Lunch meets once a month with a guest speaker and covers topics and questions that startup CTOs should find interesting. The Role As a CTO, you paint a landscape of the product and market. There are two kinds of CTOs: tactical and visionary.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 25, 2014

Nicholas Clark is the CTO of DoubleDutch , the company that creates social event apps for trade shows and conferences. From a technology perspective, the early team may consist of only a few engineers that are severely strapped for time. An impending event (iOS 7) required some re-architecture at a minimum.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 21, 2016

This includes creating the Information Security Program, training on secure development of products, and/or implementing the security architecture of their infrastructure. For efficient and secure expansion, understand what types of resources and technology are needed: colocation, cloud providers, internal resources?

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 10, 2010

A CTO will also want to ensure that the businesspeople on their team will understand important product and technical decisions. Remember the joke on Office Space where you can’t have the engineers talking to the customers? That the one guy’s job was just to interpret what the customers wanted for the engineers.

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blog.alinelerner.com

JUNE 21, 2013

Lessons from a year’s worth of hiring data. Because I used to be an engineer, one part of my job was conducting first-round technical interviews, and between January 2012 and January 2013, I interviewed roughly 300 people for our back-end/full-stack engineer position. Jun 21, 2013. Enter recruiters or HR people.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Therefore, if you want to bring an MVP ( Minimum Viable Product ) to market, Werdelin approximates that you’ll need $50,000 to $250,000 , depending on the skill sets of the developers and designers you hire. You have to ensure that the right people come in at the right time, and you have the right decor, ambiance and music.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. What about a hardware business with some long-lead-time components?

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Venture Chronicles

AUGUST 2, 2013

I have covered a couple of topics in this series, the first being hiring the best people and the second organizing for success based on the attributes of the people you are hiring. engineers paired would jump from frontend to backend erratically at each sprint iteration.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 5, 2011

The first version of the product was based on an architectural approach that didn’t aptly satisfy all players in the ecosystem and wasn’t flexible enough. Jud is an extremely experienced CTO / technical product manager and developer, but had never been a CEO. I’m super proud of Jud and the team he’s built at Gnip.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

It was my ex boss from Convergent Technologies, “Steve we’ve all just resigned from Convergent and we’re starting a new company. My ex-boss was going to be the VP of Engineering and I would report to the CEO whose marketing acumen and sales instincts seemed at the time to be telepathic and sense of theater was legend.

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Reid Hoffman

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

era of autonomous vehicle technology. Drew Bagnell, Aurora’s CTO, led perception and overall autonomy architecture for Uber’s self-driving vehicle effort. With this new round of funding, Aurora will be able to continue hiring the world-class talent that has put it at the forefront in the Version 2.0

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

Tony Saldanha (P&G Next Gen Svces, Transformant), Farhan Shah (Allstate, CTO, Head of Platform Eng), Munu Gandhi (VP Infrastructure, AON), Virginia Lyons (CISO, Williams Sonoma) and GTM advisors?—?Natalie Dev-first API for interactive emails?—?will will be a great fit with the Salesforce marketing cloud. New CXO advisors join?—?

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The Next Web

AUGUST 12, 2013

A company that can employ thousands of engineers and designers, acquire companies, and support a creative working environment. They should be able to hire great designers to help build a better product. An engineer. This person needs to be incredibly skilled in engineering, and should ideally be an experienced CTO.

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blog.socaltech.com

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

I’ve covered this topic many times before, but I keep coming back to it, because everytime I turn around I’m talking with both startups and established companies in Southern California who are telling me they are looking for technical talent to join their company. cloud computing (Amazon AWS and EC2, etc.)

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 2, 2008 Just-In-Time Scalability At my previous company, we pioneered an approach to building out our infrastructure that we called "Just-In-Time Scalability." After all, the worst kind of waste in software development is code to support a use case that never materializes.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

So one of the first things we did was to hire an Oracle expert and get to work. You dont need to invent a new architecture, and you dont need to even build your architecture up-front. I was building a new startup in 1999, and wanted to do it right. I had heard that all great companies built their applications on Oracle.

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konamoxt.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

January 21, 2009 Why Your Startup Can’t Afford To NOT Hire a CTO As I mentioned in my last post, one of the many things I do as an entrepreneur is to advise other start up companies. One of the common requests I get as an adviser is the help interview and vet potential CTO candidates. So what are you to do?

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David Teten

JUNE 6, 2011

My rough notes follow: Mike Dubno , CIO, Global Markets and Research Technology & Operations, Bank of America. Previously CTO, Goldman Sachs. Panel: Cary Davis , Managing Director, Warburg Pincus, Moderator: Ben Fried, Chief Information Officer, Google, runs in-house technology. Introductory remarks.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

The blockchain and Arcadeum architecture we’re developing enables the future of gaming, where players benefit from truly owning their digital items, privacy, provable fairness, open economies, and the ability to earn real-world value through play. Please explain the token standard you recently helped design, ERC-1155. Tell us about it.

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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. Its common to find a hacker at the heart of almost any successful technology company. When the architecture needs modifying - why do we need a meeting?

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

In particular, they may use service oriented architecture, or SoA. What to avoid Fortunately for entrepreneurs, there are only a few technology language choices that are likely to be fundamentally "wrong". Hiring a good team of PHP developers is neither likely nor easy for the non-technical.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Inevitably, the excuses begin: I need to hire people to build the product. 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. is it really that the only people who can build great startups are engineers?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Lots of engineers are busy checking in and deploying their work. Someone has managed to convince themselves that they have to do their big architecture change in one fell swoop. Sure, we kept that one engineer busy while they toiled away on their own, but did that optmize the whole teams efforts?

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

He , Srikanth Narayan , Ben Werdmuller von Elgg , Jo Vi Ko , Justin Lee , Giovanni Tardini , David de Weerdt , Vineet Thanedar , Ryan Brideau , Jonathan Meiri , Rob Weedn , Krzysztof Kowalczyk , Greg Pilling , Kevin Leland , Parham Michael Ossareh , Dan Loewenherz , Mary Specht , Engin Erdo?an "I am a creative guy with a startup idea."

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2020

He also said, “The most important hire I made in my time at the JAIC was the chief technology officer, Nand Mulchandani.” In this class session Nand Mulchandani, JAIC CTO who just completed an extended stint as Acting Director, continued the discussion of AI and the role of the JAIC.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Update: The end is near, Expensify is hiring a.NET programmer! As you might know, we’re hiring the best programmers in the world. If you are a startup looking to hire really excellent people, take notice of.NET on a resume, and ask why it’s there. Expensify Blog. Expense Reports That Don't Suck. Sjoerd Franken.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Derek Sivers about me blog books email list contact How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen 2010-06-19 Do you have an idea for a website, online business, or application, but need a programmer to turn that idea into reality? Say, “We are hiring a developer to create only the beginning of an application. Hire one from each.

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