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What does a CTO do?

www.lanceglasser.com

Metrics for cyclical businesses. Product development. Queuing theory and product development. The Essential Product Investigation Phase Gate. What does a CTO do? Marketing and sales. The minimum viable product. What does a CTO do? So what is the CTO job? Stock buybacks.

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8 Tips To Get the Most Out of Your Investors and Board

Both Sides of the Table

In this period (less than 2 years) he has brought on incredibly talented senior execs is sales, marketing, product management, client services, finance, vp engineering and more. In his spare time he raised nearly $30 million. Oh, and did I mention – Rob is in SF and Nick is in the UK. It is really working.

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Andrew Chen: Growing renewable audiences

Startup Lessons Learned

In an enterprise sales context, this is called a "repeatable and scalable sales process" - once you know how to do this, your company can graduate from early adopters and make an attempt at the mainstream. Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you?

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Lessons Learned: The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time

Startup Lessons Learned

Focus on the output metrics of that part of the product, and you make the problem a lot more clear. I had the opportunity to pioneer this approach to funnel analysis at IMVU, where it became a core part of our customer development process. Its one of those situations where more data can impede learning.

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He's Only in Field Service

Steve Blank

As the (very junior) product marketing manager I got a call from our local salesman that someone at Apple wanted more technical information than just the spec sheets about our new (not yet shipping) chip. I vividly remember the sales guy saying, “It’s only some kid in field service. What happened?

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Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot

Startup Lessons Learned

“Everybody felt the burden of supporting all those transactions every day,&# says Pascal-Louis Perez, kaChing’s CTO. “It took a ton of our time, and just wasn’t contributing to our long term vision.&# “It took a ton of our time, and just wasn’t contributing to our long term vision.&#

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The Ultimate Guide to Starting a Software Company

Up and Running

In the tactics section, list your sales channels and describe how you will be selling your products. If you don’t yet have a team yet, list the roles you need to hire for. If you don’t yet have a team yet, list the roles you need to hire for. This is the simplest version of your product minus the frills and frosting.