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OCTOBER 7, 2013

The picture to the left is of Ryan Martens, Rally’s founder and CTO, giving Josie Health, the CEO of The Community Foundation Serving Boulder County , a check for $676,000.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2011

For an awesome description of Startup America, please read Aneesh Chopra’s (the United States CTO) post on TechCrunch titled Startup America: A Campaign To Celebrate, Inspire And Accelerate Entrepreneurship. By the way, I think it is awesomely cool that the CTO of the United States blogs on TechCrunch!

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FEBRUARY 18, 2014

It was “CTO Whisperer.” I saw a great job title this morning when I was looking someone up on LinkedIn. ” As I’m getting deeper into meditation. I hear the word “teacher” a lot. When we started to use the word mentor in 2007, it required defining.

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JUNE 13, 2010

The first was a tour of the CIA which, while limited to very specific physical areas (including the CIA gift shop), included a 75 minute roundtable with the CIA’s CTO and his team about the future. On Thursday and Friday I was in DC and had four significant experiences. Later Thursday night I had a very quiet tour of the West Wing.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

One of the attendees was Jeff Malek , the CTO of BigDoor. We had seven topics of one hour each, led by a different set of execs. The result was an incredible range of discussions across an amazing group of people. Jeff is super passionate about what he does and mixes humor with intensity with math.

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DECEMBER 28, 2011

Eran Egozy, Founder and CTO Harmonix. Some of the mentors, in addition to me, include: Jeff Powers, Founder, Occipital, Andrew Tschesnok, Founder, Organic Motion. Manu Kumar, Investor, K-9 Ventures. David Cohen, Founder/CEO, TechStars. Eric Norlin, Organizer, Blur, Defrag, and Glue conferences.

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AUGUST 26, 2013

It includes author Amanda Steinberg, founder and CEO of DailyWorth; Margaret Neale, management professor at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business; and Michele Weslander Quaid, chief technology officer (federal) and innovation evangelist at Google.

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MAY 5, 2011

Jud is an extremely experienced CTO / technical product manager and developer, but had never been a CEO. At this point, the other co-founder, Jud Valeski, stepped up to be the CEO.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Now that Dick and Jane have added a CTO to SayAhh’s founding team, they’ve turned their full attention to working on their product. Today, we’ll look at the impact of the expenses to date on the P&L, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow Statement. Since SayAhh is in the pre-launch development stage, the company doesn’t have any revenue yet.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

CTO: “No&#. In his case he was experiencing the opposite of the yes/no problem – he was trying to ask an open ended question and getting a yes/no answer. For example: CEO Friend: “Are the trials converting into customers?&#. several (four?)

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MAY 28, 2015

Tim Miller (CEO) and Ryan Martens (CTO, founder) have been working together from the start of the journey. Or maybe dip into the 2006 and 2007 time frame when Rally was in an award cycle with my posts Rally’s New Financing and the E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year Award and Boulder 2007 Esprit Entrepreneur Awards.

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AUGUST 3, 2011

In parallel, a number of us have been talking to key people in the White House, including the amazing Aneesh Chopra , the White House CTO.

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OCTOBER 27, 2011

We’ll also be joined by several special guests, including Scott Case (Startup America Partnership CEO) and Aneesh Chopra (United States Chief Technology Officer). We have a panel discussing what has happened in Boulder over the past decade and one about the power of mentorship.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2012

This one came a week ago from Jeff Malek, the CTO and co-founder of BigDoor. Jeff’s retrospective is awesome and he was game to have me share it with you to get a sense of what’s inside a CTO’s head during and after a board meeting. This is NOT a casual group and I knew using the word casual would press a few buttons.

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MAY 1, 2014

Earlier today, I got a note from Andy Sautins, CTO of Return Path , about the four year anniversary of the Boulder / Denver Big Data Meetup. Andy is a good friend and one of the really strong CTOs in Boulder. It’s pretty cool to see what he and his gang have created around Big Data.

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JULY 8, 2013

Following is a guest post on DevOps by Gene Kim , Multiple Award-Winning CTO, Researcher, Visible Ops Co-Author, Entrepreneur & Founder of Tripwire. He wrote it a while ago and it has sat in my draft queue waiting for the perfect moment to emerge. That moment is now.

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JANUARY 30, 2016

Chief Technology Officer ) focus on things that really matter for the long term health of our country and society – and get them done. The post Computer Science For All appeared first on Feld Thoughts.

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OCTOBER 26, 2011

Robert Stephens, CTO, Best Buy. Hal Stern, CTO’s Office, Juniper Networks. The list of confirmed keynote speakers includes: Paul Kedrosky, Kauffman Foundation. Roger Ehrenberg, IA Ventures. James Altucher, The Altucher Confidential. Adrian Cockcroft, Cloud Architect, Netflix. Tim Bray, Google. Jeff Lawson, Twilio.

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JULY 15, 2014

If you don’t know the FeedBurner story, there were four FeedBurner founders – Dick Costolo (now CEO of Twitter), Eric Lunt (now CTO of BrightTag and until recently a board member at Gnip, which Twitter just acquired), Matt Shobe (now at AngelList), and Steve.

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MAY 29, 2013

To accelerate that program, President Obama and US CTO Todd Park have created a national event to leverage technology and open data to strengthen our democracy in the United States. The open data movement is great for business, but is also great for us as citizens. On June 1st and 2nd the largest hackathon in the world is forming.

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JANUARY 13, 2017

But your VP Product, or your VP Engineering, or your CTO could be responsible for the Product machine, with the other VP functions reporting to her. Regardless of title structure, the CEO has a span of control that gets wider as the company scales, often with more people being added into the hierarchy at the VP or CxO level.

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OCTOBER 30, 2013

From there, we had presentations by Ryan Martens (CTO of Rally) on learnings from Agile, Nathan Day (Chief Scientist of SoftLayer) on the incredible automation at SoftLayer, and a number of great panels from CEOs, CTOs, and VPs of Engineering of DevOps related companies.

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JANUARY 22, 2015

When she retired from Avaya Labs in 2001, she was CTO, R&D Vice President and Bell Labs Fellow and had about 600 people reporting to her. I promise you that it will be a special one. Lucy started her career as a young woman at Bell Labs in the 1970s. She was one of the only ones.

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MARCH 28, 2016

Andy Sautins (at the time Return Path’s CTO) and Matt Blumberg (Return Path’s CEO) came up with the idea two years ago. Specifically, Path Forward works with companies to create mid-career internship that are an on ramp back to the paid workforce.

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MARCH 20, 2019

Since then, I’ve been a founder of a number of companies, a CTO of a public company that acquired my first company, an angel investor, a VC in two different firms that I helped start, and an LP in a bunch of VC firms.

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MAY 6, 2014

So I thought it was pretty awesome when he went to be CTO of Oculus Rift to pursue the next generation of virtual reality software. I’ve always loved his hacker spirit, amazing ability to do things no one else could envision, and willingness to open source a lot of his work to lead the way for others.

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OCTOBER 25, 2010

Several ADP alums, including Sameer Gandhi (Accel Partners), Mark Siegel (Menlo Ventures), and Eran Egozy (founder/CTO of Harmonix) came and participated. I’m extremely proud of the legacy of entrepreneurship from MIT’s ADP chapter and am happy to continue to play a role in helping encourage it.

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MAY 23, 2011

More importantly, it forces senior execs, such as a COO, CSO, CPO, CRO, CIO, CTO, CDO, CAO, or CFO to define clearly what they are the “head&# of. I heard the phrase “ be the CEO of your job &# a while ago from Mark Pincus and have used it many times over the years.

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JUNE 10, 2010

Over the next two days I’ve got a meeting with each of my Colorado Senators ( Michael Bennet and Mark Udall ) as well as a summit at the White House led by Phil Weiser (Director of Technology and Innovation for the National Economic Council), Aneesh Chopra (CTO of the US), and Vivek Kundra (CIO of the US).

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DECEMBER 19, 2010

Sometimes it’s the CTO, sometimes it the VP of Engineering, sometimes it’s just someone in the guts of the engineering organization. When I reflect on all of this, I realize how important it is to have a few full-stack programmers on the team.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Path Forward began as a program at Return Path, a data-solutions company with more than 500 employees in 12 offices around the globe. The company’s CTO, Andy Sautins, came up with the idea of an internship program aimed at women who were interested in returning to work after a career break. Fundraising Websites – Crowdrise.

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