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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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How to Retain Tech Talent in Competitive Markets

View from Seed

This post on how to retain tech talent was written by Dan DeMeyere, director of engineering at thredUP. NextView is an investor in thredUP, and this post originally appeared on their engineering team blog. Retaining engineering talent has become an increasingly challenging task for any engineering manager in the Bay Area.

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Remind Me Why I Love You? (Why “In Person” is Everything)

Both Sides of the Table

“In our last meeting you asked me about our cohorts and why retention went down. Last time we met I didn’t have my CTO with me. She was one of the lead engineers at Uber. I worked on a new model and I’d really love to show it to you in person. It’s hard to completely grok reading it. I’ll come to you and promise to be fast.”

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Granularity and Consistency of Startup Metrics

SoCal CTO

Show me how much each unique visitor is going to cost you in search engine optimization and pay-per-click search engine expense. And it will be a consistent picture provided both to the team (CTO, COO) and to investors. Great stuff! And it’s surprising how few startup founders think in those terms.

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Presidential Innovation Fellows, round two

Startup Lessons Learned

The emerging “industrial Internet” revolution, enabled by the convergence of networking and information technology with engineered physical systems and associated services, is enabling a new generation of “smart systems” and an innovation-based growth engine for the U.S. design, build, operate/use, maintain, and service).

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Are You Putting Your Rock Star Customers To Work?

YoungUpstarts

Your most powerful growth engine is your existing customer. SAS Canada “customer champions” helped the firm restore declining customer retention rates—which had fallen as low as the mid-80s percent — back to the firm’s traditional high retention rates of 97-98 percent. That’s right.

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Tracking the Hiring Funnel

This is going to be BIG.

Their job could be to hand every engineer in your company a weekly list of 5 other engineers to e-mail, with some copy and an opportunity for personized notes on the person in an effort to get them to a phone interview. Keep in mind, though, that retention is just as important. Might not even need to be fulltime.

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