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What is a CTO?

Austin Startup

They will provide strategic technical guidance and direction with attention to scalability, security, quality, maintainability, and reliability. Security needs to be top of mind for any CTO. Some of my most satisfying projects are when we make improvements in, say, developer productivity that also pay a “security dividend”.

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Lessons Learned: A hierarchy of pitches

Startup Lessons Learned

Their idea was to build a next-generation autonomous robot, that could be used by defense and security agencies around the world. Most important slide: about the founders In a pitch meeting, try to spend as much time as possible talking about the key questions for your pitch. They even included a slide with The Transformers on it.

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Why Continuous Deployment?

Startup Lessons Learned

As a consumer internet company with millions of customers, it may seem to have little relevancy for an enterprise software company with only a handful of potential customers, or a computer security company whose customers demand a rigorous audit before accepting a new release. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

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John Doerr's 10 lean startup tips

Startup Lessons Learned

All cash in most secure possible instruments. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers.

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Minimum Viable Product: a guide

Startup Lessons Learned

Most enterprise customers do NOT want frequent releases for two main reasons (1)They have heavy internal release processes: long QA cycle, security reviews, etc; and (2) It is costly to communicate and educate their own customers about a new set of features. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers.

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Lessons Learned: The ABCDEF's of conducting a technical interview

Startup Lessons Learned

I remember once being asked in a Microsoft group interview (and dinner) about the ActiveX security model. I remember answering "What security model?" Turns out, I had been lecturing the creator of the ActiveX security model. I was wondering if you could expand on finding a technical co-founder.

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Lessons Learned: Where did Silicon Valley come from?

Startup Lessons Learned

In true startup form, the world was forever changed when the CIA and the National Security Agency acted as venture capitalists for this first wave of entrepreneurship. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.