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Want to Know the Difference Between a CTO and a VP Engineering?

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Your deepest thinkers on technology architecture are seldom good team leaders. The best technologists often aren’t amazing people managers. They work on their own schedule and are often hard to manage. The VP Engineering aspires to manage teams. And first and foremost a VP of Engineering is a people manager.

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9 Women Can’t Make a Baby in a Month

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I had my dev team asking for us to work through new architectural components to improve performance. I was management. I continually felt the market pressure to get new product releases out the door. I had my sales teams telling me we needed certain features to be competitive. He argued that in some cases less was more. He was tech.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

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The managing partner of the firm called me the next day. we had about 25 firms contacting us – more than I could manage. Experienced and serial entrepreneurs in the content management space. Web service architecture that provides a content management platform for the Internet. After Office 2.0 Folksonomy.

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When the Good Guys in Venture Change Roles

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Through this process we managed to maintain our millions of active users and throughout the next year we will release a series of fun, innovative products that simply weren’t possible under our old architectures. I’m personally very bullish on the future of NextPlus. He’s a gentleman.

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Whose Life are You Going to Change?

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You can also spend time with a newer startup helping them navigate the world of product management, venture capital or team building. I loved the novelty of it, the architecture, the strange foods, stores, toilets – everything. Sure, you can get away with less, but why? I felt I had missed out on something. You got it.

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