Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

As your organization grows and you hire senior staff where you are no longer managing every employee directly the issue of how to manage people that are not your “direct&# reports arises. You’ll get sales information from your VP of Sales, marketing information from your VP Marketing, tech information from your CTO and so on.

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www.lanceglasser.com

MAY 13, 2012

A Model for Return on Engineering Expenses. A Model for Return on Engineering Expenses. What does a CTO do? Operations and Manufacturing. What does a CTO do? What does a CTO (Chief Technology Officer) do in a high-tech company? So what is the CTO job? This is where you should see the CTO.

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www.allthingsdistributed.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Main July 11, 2007 The Different CTO Roles I was putting together a short panel presentation on the roleof a Chief Technology Officer in corporate innovation and I once again realized that there is quite a bit of confusion around the role of the CTO. I am posting it here as it might be of generalinterest.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

recently wrote a post talking about how some VCs meddle in operating company decisions or some executive teams are too reliant on VCs to jump in and make hard calls for them. So operating at a higher level, helping to set the framework for decision making and then sitting down and watching the game be played, is certainly the way to go.”

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Therefore, if you want to bring an MVP ( Minimum Viable Product ) to market, Werdelin approximates that you’ll need $50,000 to $250,000 , depending on the skill sets of the developers and designers you hire. You have to ensure that the right people come in at the right time, and you have the right decor, ambiance and music.

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www.informationarbitrage.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Main February 23, 2010 Advice for CTO Founders: Dont Let Business Kill the Business Founding a technology company is an amazing thing. Too often, however, I have found CTO / Founders paired with business people who not only don't add value, but frequently detract from the value of the business.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

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). Previously, he was Chief Operating Officer & Strategic Creative at USA GROUP, INC., He has 20 years’ experience as CTO. in Computer Science. in Computer Science.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Operate on due diligence from this point: Identify your potential key crew members — background checks, personal references, past business review are all vital. Hiring a Tech Advisor with high coding abilities can also be an option if you have a software team for revision and assessment. And ask: What advice do you have for me?

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

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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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

The constraint between good ideas and growth operates in both directions. We worked with police departments, the ministry of defense, many of the largest utility companies in Europe and a ton of contractors, engineers, architects, developers and suppliers. Ryan Lissack is the CTO of Maker Studios. Growth, again.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Amidst the rise of new funds, new technologies, and potentially disruptive late stage players, I thought it was important to share what we consider to be our core operating principles here at NextView. . It’s been an interesting several years in the early stage venture eco-system, and the sands have shifted considerably.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 5, 2011

Jud is an extremely experienced CTO / technical product manager and developer, but had never been a CEO. Oh, and they are hiring as fast as they can find great people ; across the spectrum (business, sales, & engineering). At this point, the other co-founder, Jud Valeski, stepped up to be the CEO.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Correction: Last week's CTO position at Modcloth is actually a San Francisco opportunity, not Pittsburgh. Senior VP of Operations/COO – ROBLOX - San Francisco, CA Tree forts. Our team includes 12 top-notch engineers from NVidia, Microsoft, Stanford, Berkeley and Cornell. Wooden blocks. Erector Set. Tinker Toys.

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Reid Hoffman

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Drew Bagnell, Aurora’s CTO, led perception and overall autonomy architecture for Uber’s self-driving vehicle effort. With this new round of funding, Aurora will be able to continue hiring the world-class talent that has put it at the forefront in the Version 2.0 era of autonomous vehicle technology.

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SVPG

OCTOBER 14, 2014

” I first witnessed this many years ago when I was an engineer for HP, building platform and tool technology products for “the enterprise.” In IT mindset companies, you usually find very slow, heavy, Waterfall processes, even when the engineers consider themselves Agile. I call this problem “IT Mindset.”

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 27, 2010

I mean, you don’t have to build an actual business—you can just mimic the movements and demonstrate something that looks like a startup on paper, without any of the necessary risk taking, lessons learned or even a fraction of the effort—all the stuff that investors like to see. No revenues, no costs. break the silos!

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www.avc.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

The most common comment in this long and complicated MBA Mondays series on Employee Equity is the question of how much equity should you grant when you make a hire. For your first key hires, three, five, maybe as much as ten, you will probably not be able to use any kind of formula. First, a caveat.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 4, 2022

Key Takeaway: The Chief Operating Officer is the second in command to the CEO – they’re the go-to person that should be running the business. Questions I ask Cameron Herold: [2:27] Are there some things in those early days of figuring operations out that really stuck with you? [3:38] Cameron Herold (02:35): Uh, something changed.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

There are a few cases where you somewhat need to see the system operating to have a sense of the value. Examples might be a recommendation engine, search engine, matching engine or something with a complex interface. Structure development contracts appropriately or directing the in-house team appropriately.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

When we created Yeeply in 2012 we were sure IT hiring was going to be all about freelancing platforms and remote work. So we decided to create our own JASP tag to define that new generation of engineers and entrepreneurs aiming to transform the world. In Argentina, putting a “la” or “the” before someone’s name is a sense of endearment.

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SVPG

JUNE 27, 2015

I have had the honor of knowing a few graduates of this institution, and I can tell you that if you ever get a chance to hire one, or work with one, or even buy one of them a beer, you should absolutely jump at the chance. Which leads me to the subject of this article.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Here’s why: because they take technology that used to be available to engineers only, and make it available to everyone. The no-code movement is one that’s completely revolutionizing the way small- and medium-sized businesses and entrepreneurs take their operations and ideas digital, and it’s only just begun.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. See Customer Development Engineering for my first stab at articulating the theory involved) Ferocious customer-centric rapid iteration, as exemplified by the Customer Development process.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 30, 2014

It promises to revolutionize the way developers and operation teams work, aiming to make application development for the cloud less of a nightmare. For small-business owners who ship things infrequently and don’t want to hire warehouse help or stock packing supplies, it could make a lot of sense.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Hire a CEO to Go Public. The VCs would hire a CEO with a track record who looked and acted like the type of CEO Wall Street bankers expected to see in large companies. The role of the independent member was typically to tell the founding CEO that the VCs were hiring a new CEO.). People had to actually pay you for your product.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Amidst the rise of new funds, new technologies, and potentially disruptive late stage players, I thought it was important to share what we consider to be our core operating principles here at NextView. . It’s been an interesting several years in the early stage venture eco-system, and the sands have shifted considerably.

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Mucker Lab

APRIL 6, 2023

It's very hard for PLG to be the only or main motion with infrastructure products because it's not something one engineer will just test and buy. Obviously if you target enterprise customers, you usually have a very large ACV (Annual Contract Value) and the product usually is complex. Hila Qu: I saw that all the time at GitLab.

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www.entrepreneur.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Answers Ask Entrepreneur Home Business Operations Business Opportunities Sales & Marketing Advertising & PR Finance & Accounting Franchises Home Business Human Resources Internet/E-Commerce Legal Issues Starting Up Technology Most Recent Answers How Can I Streamline My E-Commerce Operation? In fact, it could be worth much more.

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www.inc.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

500|5000 Conference Honorees Resources Press Apply 2011 ); Topics > Leadership and Managing > Human Resources > Job Descriptions > How to Hire a CTO When its time to add a technologist to your slate of executives, what are the best practices to follow? Some companies have a CTO focused on operations under the CIO.

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konamoxt.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

January 21, 2009 Why Your Startup Can’t Afford To NOT Hire a CTO As I mentioned in my last post, one of the many things I do as an entrepreneur is to advise other start up companies. One of the common requests I get as an adviser is the help interview and vet potential CTO candidates. Yep, that’s the hard truth of it.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 19, 2017

by Steve Owens, Founder and CTO of Finish Line Product Development Services. Both start-ups and established businesses need to conduct product development; however, the environment in which each operates necessitates a different approach to this same function. This is nothing more than the engineering term for “group think”.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

You may need your product and engineering teams to be involved. It’s part of the product.” Jono Bacon: Because the companies that tend to fail in this is they hire a community manager and that community manager essentially acts as like an ambassador to the community. You need your marketing team to be involved.

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Business Plan Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Don’t hire people with skills and qualifications similar to yours. Hire based on functionality and avoid having too many C’s. Hire based on functionality and avoid having too many C’s. Rather, give titles such as VP of Engineering, Product/Technology, Sales, Marketing, Finance, etc.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 15, 2019

We will be hiring people with mental and physical disabilities in the near future. From a young age, I watched him start a company from scratch and build it to a NASDAQ company operating in many countries. My company provides the best products and devices to turn on the skin’s natural regeneration engine. 5- Two reasons.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

portfolio operator VCs, e.g., Andreessen Horowitz, ff Venture Capital, First Round Capital, Google Ventures. These are particularly relevant to first-time founders, since the learnings they go through often inhibit them from successfully launching a company. HappyFunCorp employs 80 engineers and product architects. Rock Health).

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Hiring a good team of PHP developers is neither likely nor easy for the non-technical. A team of poor developers won’t just take longer to deliver a solution: they’ll build something which is insecure and complex, and subsequent modifications will become increasingly costly with time.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 7, 2009

For people we hired from larger companies especially, this was challenging. When a new engineer started at IMVU, I had a simple rule: they had to ship code to production on their first day. We always assigned them a "code mentor" from the ranks of the more established engineers. Heres the key point. But it still turned out OK.

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