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See More than 120 Speakers and Mentors at The Lean Startup Conference

Startup Lessons Learned

As the emeritus Chief Technology Officer of the United States, he still connects government and Silicon Valley. He was a very early employee of Facebook , and engineering director there through the moment it blew up. Now he’s VP of engineering at Dropbox , where he’s seeing similar growth. He’ll bring us real-world advice.

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Social Networking and Business Value

SoCal CTO

Companies also use social networking sites in the hiring process, and increasingly, to do innovative advertising (such as the recent Jack in the Box campaign). Formerly, he was Managing Director of both Product Management and of Business Development at Los Angeles Times Interactive. LAUNCH.com, and The Improv Comedy Clubs.

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Reincubate: Blog: Chief Technology Officer job description (for web, start-up or corporate)

www.reincubate.com

Share this: chief technical officer chief technology officer cto interim cto job description start-up startup cto web cto Weve been swapping some thoughts with Daniel Kehoe , a consulting CTO acquaintance of ours from across the pond. Some companies look for a more strategic or a more hands-on CTO.

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boldstart 2018 recap and what’s hot in enterprise 2019

BeyondVC

Some of these themes include privacy/ML, next gen CMS, intelligent automation, and developer productivity. All are developer first companies respectively in zero trust security, automation, and developer productivity. First check leads in 5 founding teams, all in stealth. First check to Series B?—?congrats

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eve is coming to Austin

Austin Startup

We have serial entrepreneurs, one of Vue’s core team members, engineers who contribute to Google projects, a mindfulness expert, a mixologist, two published authors, the list goes on. I base the majority of my hiring decisions on what someone will contribute to the team rather than title. Why free you ask?

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. I am heavily indebted to earlier theorists, and highly recommend the books Lean Thinking and Lean Software Development. Labels: customer development , lean startup 8comments: Amy said. Less is more.

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Should You Co-Found Your Company With a Software Development Shop (2 of 2)?

David Teten

Should you co-found your company with a software development shop? I’ve talked with a number of software development shops who are eager to get into the business of cofounding companies, i.e., getting product revenue and equity instead of just consulting revenue. Vlad is also the CEO at DarwinApps , a software development shop.