This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

CTO, Modcloth – San Francisco, CA (corrected from e-mail version) Remember that girl from back home? Candidates must have a proven track record of scaling consumer applications, growing world-class technology teams, and delivering fast iterative business results. Tags: First Round Capital Venture Capital & Technology nextNY.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 16, 2020

Being relatively a new service trend in today’s tech-driven world, CTO-as-a-Service (CaaS) is notably gaining its momentum. Though CTO as a traditional full-time position exists for decades, some companies do not feel they need a technology executive. Ideal scenario assumes there’s a CTO in house. By referring to ?TO-as-a-Service

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The concept of a Chief Marketing Officer comes from large enterprises, but it is a role that has grown exponentially in the last couple of years. They must narrow the marketing focus to crucial marketing channels and formulate a winning and repeatable plan for the business.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 5, 2015

Starting this Monday, March 9 th 4-6pm Pacific Time I’ll be on the radio hosting the Bay Area Ventures program on Sirius XM radio Channel 111 – the Wharton Business Radio Channel. Mark your calendar for 4-6pm Pacific Time on Sirius XM Radio Channel 111 : March 9 th. Oren Jacob – CEO ToyTalk. April 27 th.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 24, 2017

Mohasseb details a set of insight boosters to channel your change decisions, and using data and analytics differently are among the key ones: Commit that data and analytics will drive strategic decisions. View and leverage data as an asset for future decisions, not just a measure of past actions.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 9, 2021

The brilliance of this book is that everyone on your leadership team, including the CEO, should read it and then discuss it.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

Another major hire was Ryan Lissack who joined as CTO. It is a “talent first” company but one under-pinned with a serious multi-million dollar investment in technology that has helped fuel our growth and will continue to provide tools & support for our talent. “Without you none of this would be possible.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 15, 2009

I have about 11 years in the technology sector including roles doing market research, sales and product development. How do I find entrepreneurs who have a great idea that can get or has got funding who need a CTO and/or development team? Maybe twitter as the channel for the follow-up? Remind me about your background Steve?

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 30, 2022

Megan Smith , the first female CTO of the United States of America under President Barack Obama from 2014 to 2017, and Admiral William H. This year promises a showcase of new technologies, platforms, and strategies to help channel partners scale.”.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Continuing my series of posts that I’ve been collecting that live at the intersection of Startups and being a Startup CTO : Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March here are the top posts from May 2010. He’d wasted a year of his life and had a pile of stock options that weren’t very interesting.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Successful product launch campaigns have a strong value proposition, multi-channel distribution, supporting content, and other trappings common to every marketing campaign. The SaaS test balloons helped gauge the potential traction on social media and other channels. Depending on the channel, delay until you’re ready for that channel.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2014

These include the product itself, the customer, the distribution channel, revenue model, how to get, keep and grow customers, resources and activities needed to build the business and costs.). Remember, the definition of a startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. (

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Hearpreneur

JULY 8, 2017

Todd McGuire is the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of startup incentaHEALTH and we had to the opportunity to hear from him about starting business, the future of the company and what entrepreneurship means to him. I am the co-founder and CTO of the digital health care company incentaHEALTH. Hi, I’m Todd.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 6, 2016

Innovation outposts in Silicon Valley allow big companies to sense and respond to rapid changes in technology. Prior to his investing and advisory career, Evangelos spent 20+ years in high-technology industries, in executive roles spanning operations, marketing, sales and engineering. He was the CEO of two startups.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Funding challenges and other issues founders face in the early days of starting up were the focus of interviews with the latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on SiriusXM Channel 111 (airing weekly Thursdays at 1 pm Pacific, 4 pm Eastern). Tune in Thursday at 1 pm PT, 4 pm ET on Sirius XM Channel 111.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

(Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. Your "startup-lessons-learned" are very valuable. Would love to get in touch. January 2, 2009 8:57 AM Abbas said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

Deputy Chief Technology Officers Cori Zarek and Ryan Panchadsaram to help all levels of government with COVID-19 response and delivery of services. Deputy Chief Technology Officer in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy from 2013–2014, where she founded the United States Digital Service.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 14, 2009

Cliff Allen is someone I've known for quite a few years and he's a go to person for me when I'm thinking about issues around marketing, sales, technology, startups and networking. Maybe that would make sense as a marketing channel. Hey, radio. What are you working on now?

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Mass TLC Unconference: Large annual conference put on by the MA Technology Leadership Council. link] – Not a meetup, but a great mentorship program started by serial CTO Sean Lindsay. Barrington Coffee – Fort Point Channel. Flour – Bakery and Coffee Shop in Fort Point Channel. Next major event? Future M on Oct 16.

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www.entrepreneur.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Technology Technology Home Online Business Tools Security Phones & Mobile Gadgets Tech Tips Technology The Future of Facebook -- Streaming Live Now. First-time entrepreneurs often think "If I approach a VC with a chief technology officer or chief prototype designer in place, then I'm more likely to get funded."

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 6, 2013

The age of machines have arrived, and the future of the workplace will continue to change as various factors – increased automation, changing social demographics, heightened connectivity amongst others – all combine and see technology steadily displace labor. “ Elance believes in the power and nature of the online crowd.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 19, 2010

They're going through their personal networks and around the typical hiring channels—especially since environment and people matter so much when you join a company. Instead, the CTO there met someone amazing at SXSW who turned out to be a big fan (and customer) of the company. That's the way a lot of this stuff goes. Why senior level?

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 30, 2016

You can also follow updates from @whitehouse on Twitter, as well as the NCWIT social media channels. NCWIT will partner with Intel to host a convening on Native American students’ and tribes’ access to technology careers, and will host with Google a conversation on the image of African-American girls in technology. NCWIT, U.S.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Nexpense - you streamline business expense processing, but how, what’s cool about the technology? Presenters: Sarah Allen (Co-Founder & CTO, Mightyverse) and Paul Lundahl (Creative Director, Mightyverse). Tags: Business Technology. Prepay Nation - what the heck does “transfer small values&# mean?

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Steve Blank

MARCH 1, 2016

And just having cool technology doesn’t make a successful business. What it was like to get out of the research lab to build a startup was the focus of interviews with two of the latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on SiriusXM Channel 111 (airing weekly Thursdays at 1 pm Pacific, 4 pm Eastern).

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Jono Bacon: So I think really, we’ve seen a real growth in communities in recent years and especially because technology has been growing so significantly. Jono Bacon: Prior to all of this technological evolution, people would form together into local communities. Technology is just enabling it more than ever before.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 28, 2019

The bulk is usually run by technology geeks who don’t have a real understanding of how to build and operate a business. Blockdraws Technologies COO, Konstantinos Despotakis is a former online casino CEO and also a former Deputy Director of Compliance at the AGCC. Will they accept an open-source state channel? What It Is Needed?

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Nexpense – you streamline business expense processing, but how, what’s cool about the technology? Presenters: Sarah Allen (Co-Founder & CTO, Mightyverse) and Paul Lundahl (Creative Director, Mightyverse). A lot of entrepreneurs attended the event as evident by business cards with “Founder&# listed.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 16, 2013

Adam Arbolino is the co-founder and CTO of DesignCrowd.com , a logo, web and graphic design marketplace. Step 3: Infrastructure and technology stack. Many social channels are free to use and help to drive traffic and sales. Email is a direct digital channel with strong ROI, I strongly recommend MailChimp to start with.

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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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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Either way, you can use any marketing channel thats available to bring in new customers, including word of traditional advertising, SEO, SEM - wherever you can find prospects who are going to find your product addicting. For Neopets, its simply a side-effect of their game-like product design. Seth Godin: How often should you publish?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

I dont see any reason why having the team offshore is any more of a liability in this area than, say, having to do this work while selling through a channel (and hence, not having direct access to customers). I do have faith that, whatever situation you find yourself in, you can always find ways to increase the speed of iteration.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 30, 2011

Founded in 2008 by Oren Netzer (CEO) and Alex Liverant (CTO), DoubleVerify has 160 employees in their two offices in Tel Aviv (R&D) and New York (Sales) and it plans to add another 50 by the end of the year. It has the potential to expand into all aspects of media measurement, accountability and compliance across the globe.”.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Technology cycles have become a treadmill, and for startups to survive they need to be on a continuous innovation cycle. If the founder was lucky, he got to stay as chairman or CTO. Technology Cycles Measured in Years. A company could go public on its initial wave of innovation, then coast on its current technology for years.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 24, 2022

John Jantsch (00:01): This episode of the duct tape marketing podcast is brought to you by the Gain Grow, Retain podcast, hosted by Jeff Brunsbach and Jay Nathan brought to you by the HubSpot podcast network Gain Grow Retain is built to inspire SAS and technology leaders who are facing day to day. So that I've got headroom on my curve.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 19, 2016

He said there’s chatter on Slack channels and stuff from people who not be even thinking or talking about us.” Scott Hunter, Director of Program Management on the App Plat team at Microsoft, tells a bit of the story on the DotNet Rocks Podcast (starting around 19:00). The Damian mentions is Damian Edwards.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

A few things jumped out at me: - Experience in sales or technology - considered a minor negative? Especially interesting is the Valuation Worksheet towards the end. He has a bunch of factors that investors should be considering (and generally do). If you've not had a C-level but have had experience in sales or tech. Not sure why.

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