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Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO

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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. Most likely, this is a person who is a serial entrepreneur and was the chief technology officer for two or more web startups. .&#

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

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Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 30, 2008 What does a startup CTO actually do? What does your Chief Technology Officer do all day? So what does CTO mean, besides just "technical founder who really cant manage anyone?" So I initially gravitated to the CTO title, and not VP of Engineering.

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Product Launches: 5 Unexpected Lessons from the Real World

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Articles on product launches often lay out a start-to-finish strategy that applies tactics along a linear path to success. This article details five unexpected lessons from real-world experiences to aid that preparation. Successful demand generation campaigns break down silos between marketing and sales. That rarely happens.

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5 Mistakes We Made While Growing A Startup In Southeast Asia

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As the company’s Commercial Manager, Hortensius was armed with the responsibility of setting up the office’s headquarters in Kuala Lumpur as well as growing the local team. In this article, she shares her experiences of what she has learnt along the way and what can be done differently. Giving the wrong company perks and benefits.

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Do you believe in the Red Shift theory?

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Moving on, it is clear that red shift data requirements are only a fraction of what’s necessary to meet this exponential growth as it will put tremendous strain on the existing IT infrastructure consuming ever-increasing amounts of CPU cycles, energy, storage, and more. Red-shift companies tend to be Web 2.0

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Finding Technical Cofounders Is Hard

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Yesterday, Michael Pope posted an article titled Technical Cofounders Are a Myth. These traits of a software engineer are always in demand by a great number of companies. They can make good money consulting or working as an employee of another company. Finding Technical Cofounders Is Hard. Tuesday, August 17, 2010.

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Lessons Learned: The hacker's lament

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As a last disclaimer, please consult the definition of the word hacker if youre not familiar with the controversies surrounding that term.) Its common to find a hacker at the heart of almost any successful technology company. As the company grows, hes the go-to person for almost everything technical, and so hes very much in demand.