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Technical Review: A Trusted Look Under the Hood

TechEmpower

Due diligence prep: You’re coming up on a funding round or looking at a potential exit. Architecture Review We meet with your tech team to review the overall architecture of your systems and applications. We also begin to assess how well the architecture fits with your business needs. Are you ready?

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The Firewall Is Dead – What Can Businesses Do To Protect And Secure Their Brands?

YoungUpstarts

As APIs tend to be the most exposed part of a system because of their accessibility from the open Internet, it is recommended that threat modelling applications and systems, including data flow and architecture/design, become important parts of the development lifecycle.

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What is a CTO?

Austin Startup

A CTO will guide your product strategy, market validation, architectural decisions, process optimization, recruiting, and hiring. They adopt, measure, and manage key product performance metrics. Autonomy to self-manage. The CTO’s role is to outline the technical vision and empower the team to execute.

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Reincubate: Blog: Chief Technology Officer job description (for web, start-up or corporate)

www.reincubate.com

Strategic Report to the CEO or board as an active part of the senior management team. Hold responsibility for IT governance of platform & services, including telecommunications, networks, infrastructure, engineering, media, and architecture. Own and manage the internal IT customer support process, and externally where appropriate.

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Startup Lessons Learned

They are leaders, visionaries, founders and managers having tremendous success. I was the junior guy on a project team; I was called in to do some technical due diligence for reasons that were obscure to me, because the team already had much more senior engineers assigned to it. I was an engineer on the engineering team.

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Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO

rapidrollout.wordpress.com

Investors use a consulting CTO for technical due diligence. third party to vet or manage&# your development team. Technology executives use a consulting CTO when they want to supplement their own understanding of a new technology with additional knowledge and experience. Why are consulting CTOs so scarce?

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The Dos And Don’ts Of Selling Your Business

Duct Tape Marketing

because they'll come into the business and take over the owner's position and role, and they'll start to manage the business. So if you pay cash for a small business, and there are limits to the ability that a buyer has to do due diligence because certain information just isn't available in a lot of small businesses.