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

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Email us or call +44 (0) 844 3579899 home about services blog labs Chief Technology Officer job description (for web, start-up or corporate) « Upgraded your iPhone to OS 3 but files are missing? Some companies look for a more strategic or a more hands-on CTO. Firstly, theres no one-size-fits-all description.

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

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Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 30, 2008 What does a startup CTO actually do? What does your Chief Technology Officer do all day? So what does CTO mean, besides just "technical founder who really cant manage anyone?" So I initially gravitated to the CTO title, and not VP of Engineering.

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Stories of Opportunity from the First Round Capital Key Hire Wire – VP of Sales, CTO, VP of Engineering

This is going to be BIG.

CTO, Modcloth – San Francisco, CA (corrected from e-mail version) Remember that girl from back home? The ideal candidate has experience with eCommerce systems, emerging mobile and social technologies, as well as RoR. Interested candidates should e-mail keyhirewire@firstround.com with "Modcloth CTO" in the subject.

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How I Found a Great CTO

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However, we needed a head of engineering to recruit and lead a larger team to accomplish our larger goals. Ive occasionally worked with executive recruiters, for example in hiring a CTO for my first company, Eve.com. Minted.com is both a global design community and stationery retailer.

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A framework for categorizing and comparing cloud platforms

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Thanks to Alex Popsecu’s NoSql blog , found a well articulated thesis by Johan den Haan , CTO at Mendix. 1: Software Defined Datacenter Users : Infrastructure Engineers. into Application Containers Examples : Google App Engine , Heroku Buildpacks , CloudFoundry Buildpacks. 4: Model-Driven PaaS Users : Business Engineers.

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Techies? Write Your Own Ticket In Southern California

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My conclusion: if you’re a software engineer, with good technical background and ability, you can pretty much write your own ticket in Southern California. It’s also to the point where the best folks (particularly on the architecture area) seem to all be going independent, working as CTO’s for hire or in similar positions.

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Hacking Innovation Education in New York

This is going to be BIG.

When Marc Cenedella first started TheLadders, he build the first version himself after investing $350 in MySQL and PHP books to teach himself to code. I’ll be doing the same thing with Online Marketing school, CTO school, and there’s even been some rumblings about UX school. Step #2: Pitch investors. No revenues, no costs.

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