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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

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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Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

In this model, you take some fraction of the lifetime value of each customer and plow that back into paid acquisition through SEM, banner ads, PR, affiliates, etc. For eBay, this is caused by the incredible network effects of their business (so-called demand-side increasing returns and supply-side increasing returns).

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Approaching The Blockchain With Business

The Startup Magazine

Blockdraws Technologies COO, Konstantinos Despotakis is a former online casino CEO and also a former Deputy Director of Compliance at the AGCC. In addition, the founder Darin Oliver, also took in Kim Lumbard, the Blockdraw’s current CTO. Today, only a few regulators will accept cloud computing. A New System. But that’s not all.

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Amazon Redshift Too Slow or Crashing? BlazingDB Performs

Austin Startup

This massive data creation and the potential for new data insights has driven explosive demands for systems that perform at both scale and speed. The system BlazingDB offers is distributed so as to take advantage of a GPU-cluster’s strength, which processes data in parallel to enable simultaneous processing.

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Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?

www.quora.com

" => I have not bothered to put up a landing page, survey to test customer demand, or done any customer development whatsoever. Developer, engineer, CTO, or technical co-founder? They usually have quality up and coming consultants expert in guiding you in "packaging" your idea. Rockstar v.