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When Should a Small Business Hire an Executive Team?

Up and Running

That often involves working long hours and keeping your costs lean. Instead of getting bogged down with social media strategies, for example, your chief marketing officer can now handle it. Chief financial officer (CFO): As the name implies, the CFO is responsible for major financial tasks.

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Entrepreneurs Need to Find the Best ‘Curators’

Startup Professionals Musings

They write and tweet every day, with the single guiding credibility and personality that the new social culture demands. He brings a strong technology base to the table, as a former CTO, and creator of the Lean Startup methodology. Here are a few that I aspire to: Venture Hacks , by Babak Nivi and Naval Ravikant.

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Product Launches: 5 Unexpected Lessons from the Real World

ConversionXL

Successful demand generation campaigns break down silos between marketing and sales. Amazon’s Chief Technology Officer, Werner Vogels, summarizes the purpose of the press release: “Writing a press release up front clarifies how the world will see the product – not just how we think about it internally.”. His solution?

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Health Tech Entrepreneur Builds a Business Focusing on Improving The Lives of Tens of Thousands

Hearpreneur

Todd McGuire is the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of startup incentaHEALTH and we had to the opportunity to hear from him about starting business, the future of the company and what entrepreneurship means to him. I am the co-founder and CTO of the digital health care company incentaHEALTH. Hi, I’m Todd.

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Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010

SoCal CTO

Some great content around the intersection of startups and being a Startup CTO in June this year. This continues my series of posts: Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March There was some really great content in June. " Is Your VC Founder Friendly?

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Lessons Learned: The hacker's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

As the company grows, hes the go-to person for almost everything technical, and so hes very much in demand. This is one of the bedrock practices of any lean startup , and so its a common piece of advice I give out. Hire a CTO or VP Engineering. I would love to have an effective CTO or VP of Engineering to manage me.

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Out of the Crisis #3, Jen Pahlka and Raylene Yung on creating the U.S. Digital Response

Startup Lessons Learned

Deputy Chief Technology Officers Cori Zarek and Ryan Panchadsaram to help all levels of government with COVID-19 response and delivery of services. Deputy Chief Technology Officer in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy from 2013–2014, where she founded the United States Digital Service.