YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 21, 2016

Conversely, enterprise organizations get breached as a result of the complexity of their infrastructure at the present moment. Hire qualified internal resources or outsource as needed for the required IT positions. Bring on a security-conscious CTO at the beginning.

Security 100

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View from Seed

MARCH 3, 2015

Ellie Mirman was the first marketer hired by the CMO of HubSpot, the Boston-based marketing software startup that IPOed in 2014. Initially, we promoted it to a list that we’d already developed through Website Grader, the free app our CTO Dharmesh Shah had built before we even had a product.

Marketing 120

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

As the conversation began to get down to how much stock and salary we could offer van Dam, we left the barber to finish his work and went to a payphone to call our CEO to confirm the deal. My first inkling that computing had a history (with deep military connections) was looking at the SAGE air defense computer at the Boston Computer Museum.

North Carolina 126

North Carolina Silicon Valley Fractional VPE Part-Time VPE 126

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

You need to make sure you dont get away from trying bold new things, using some combination of your vision and in-depth customer conversations to come up with the next idea to try. But where do those ideas come from in the first place? Split-testing doesnt have to be limited to micro-optimizations, either. Amazon PostRank

San Francisco 166

San Francisco Lean Technical Review Continuous Deployment 166

crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

Hire slow, fire fast” is not only overused–it’s also complete b t.” Obama CTO Harper Reed on Keeping Sane in a High-Pressure Environment – [link]. Conversion Rate Optmisation: 9 Killer Tips to Pimp Your Landing Page | Taiyab Raja – [link]. The Boston Globe – [link]. ” – [link].

Social Media 105

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Great content again in September that meets at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. Shortly after we sold Opsware to Hewlett-Packard, I had a conversation with the legendary venture capitalist Doug Leone of Sequoia Capital. Baptiste , a new writer at OnStartups and local Boston entrepreneur.

Technology 191

Technology Product San Francisco CTO Hire 191

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 7, 2009

I spent some time with his company before the conference and discussed ways to get started with continuous deployment , including my experience introducing it at IMVU. For people we hired from larger companies especially, this was challenging. May 11, 2009 9:42 PM Artem said. Interesting article, Eric.

Continuous Deployment 131

Continuous Deployment San Francisco Software Review Lean 131