Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 6, 2013

Vinod Khosla Founder Dave McClure Founding Partner Eric Ries Author Steve Blank Serial Entrepreneur & Professor Todd Park CTO Travis Kalanick CEO & Co-Founder Joe Zadeh Director of Product Sam Shank Co-Founder & CEO NEW! Nicole Lazzaro President Udi Nir CTO NEW!

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 18, 2019

by Saumya Bhatnagar, CTO and Co-founder of InvolveSoft. Saumya Bhatnagar is the CTO and Co-founder of InvolveSoft , a workplace community platform which helps employees volunteer in the community. Over the years, the rapid growth of startup networks is seen in almost every sector.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 31, 2013

For those of you who haven’t heard, President Obama and US CTO Todd Park have established a National Day of Civic Hacking this weekend, in cities across the nation. But, as in every civic endeavor, real change starts with the people. Which brings me to my second big LA civic push this month.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Yes, there are Lean Startups even in the United States federal government. For my take on how this is possible, you can see my previous post on Lean Government here. MyUSA Simplifying the process of finding and accessing information and government services that are right for you. Take a look and judge for yourself.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 14, 2011

The Federal government is being transformed - initially, in small ways - by people I think should be recognized as entrepreneurs. They are leveraging the same kinds of new technology, management thinking, and big data to improve lives that we routinely use here in Silicon Valley. (For I don't control any government contracts.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

For the past 26 years, Majid has founded, led, turned-around and merged several companies in various industries, as well as providing consulting services to corporate executives in the areas of technology, governance, turn-around and strategy. He has 20 years’ experience as CTO. in Computer Science.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

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.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

” When Elon Musk set out to build SpaceX he wasn’t greeted with enthusiasm from the space community not used to having a private enterprise challenge the government funded space exploration of NASA. Marc Berte, the CTO, and a masters from MIT, is exceptionally gifted. And that is what we’ll do.”

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Good Dog Labs modernizes Cybersecurity services and governance for SMB’s and large enterprises using advisory and implementation services in addition to bringing new innovative products such as Perseus IAM ( www.perseusiam.com ) to market.

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Feld Thoughts

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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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 2, 2017

If The Startup Way can transform the federal government — and it has — it can transform your company. Enter your order confirmation information at bit.ly/thestartupway thestartupway to see the videos. I can’t wait to hear what you think. Join me on Twitter using #StartupWay to share your reactions. “If I hope you'll join me there.

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Feld Thoughts

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. For two days I was immersed in government leadership. Tags: Entrepreneurship government leadership Movies Singularity.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 31, 2013

Dries Buytaert is the co-founder and CTO and Acquia , a venture-backed software company that offers products and services for open source content management system Drupal. I recommend that European government stimulus focuses on companies that could become titans, not on small companies that won’t move the needle.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 19, 2012

My personal highlight was watching newly-appointed United States CTO Todd Park receive a standing ovation from a crowd that is decidedly skeptical about government. He told us stories of specific examples of "lean government" in action, ranging from HealthCare.gov to a new approval process for medical devices at the FDA.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2020

I know our CTO, Dr. Paul Young, closely follows developments in lab grown meats. Unable to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them.” With the exception of Milis Bio, what tech trend is your team most excited about? The alternative protein space is an area that I think we all have interest in at the moment.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 31, 2015

The United States Digital Service, a federal government agency, is building a ‘stealth startup.’ At the 2014 Lean Startup Conference, Todd Park, former CTO of the United States and current advisor to the White House, concluded his panel discussion with the following sentence: “come work for us.” You can read more about 18F here.

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Board Effect

JANUARY 15, 2020

Best practices for digital governance are just beginning to evolve and boards that lack the necessary IT expertise may fail to recognize and abide by digital governance best practices. It’s important for organizations to develop best practices for digital governance, especially in industries that are highly regulated.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

At your request, we’ve brought in speakers from all kinds of organizations --including young companies, Fortune 500s, mission-driven orgs, and government, and they create websites, apps, games, hardware, consumer goods, social services, media products and more. We’ve tagged the talks by topic , so you can zero in on what interests you most.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2013

What is a little more surprising, however, is that it is not just government agencies that are benefitting from the use of such cryptosystems—you probably are as well. The reason is simple: The government doesn’t need to break or crack the encryption. They are the government.

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www.inc.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

500|5000 Conference Honorees Resources Press Apply 2011 ); Topics > Leadership and Managing > Human Resources > Job Descriptions > How to Hire a CTO When its time to add a technologist to your slate of executives, what are the best practices to follow? Some companies have a CTO focused on operations under the CIO.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Jennifer Edgin is the Chief Technology Officer of the Intelligence Division at the Headquarters of the Marine Corps. This can be particularly true in the government where the acquisition lifecycle imposes “shipbuilding timelines” on information technology systems. Always Be Measuring.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Jennifer Edgin is the Chief Technology Officer of the Intelligence Division at the Headquarters of the Marine Corps. This can be particularly true in the government where the acquisition lifecycle imposes “shipbuilding timelines” on information technology systems. Always Be Measuring.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

The Singapore government is strongly supporting tech startups with established grant schemes and investment entities/partnerships that are specifically put together to make it easier for founders to develop a product and grow as a company. axis accelerometer). TransferFi is currently based in Singapore.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 23, 2019

You found someone that really cares about something,” says Pete Kooman , CTO at Optimizely. If someone gets mad, that’s usually a good sign. Instead of stressing about frazzled customers, use that passion to reflect on your work and continue modifying and improving. Check out the dope beatmaker @Tim_Arterbury make some music with movement.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 28, 2019

by Ekim Saribardak, CTO of Rewire Security. To ensure everything is within legal regulations, there has to be a paper trail for each transaction and detailed mileage logs for every business trip, and businesses are required to provide the necessary paperwork to the regulatory government agencies in the event of an audit.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 2, 2011

I may not be technical myself—but after working with Jean Barmash on CTO School, I’ve learned a lot about finding the right technical people and enabling successful education by and for the more technically inclined innovation community. Find a small group of technical advisors to oversee syllabus creation, program structure, etc.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 6, 2013

The week included various other sessions that included talks from technology leaders like Microsoft and Google , sharing information about fast moving trends, products and policies that are fueling these new disruptive changes. And that’s the reason why crowdsourcing has been a growing trend.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 28, 2015

Kao, and a triple bill from GE : culture leader Janice Semper, GM & CTO of Hybrid Fuel Cells Johanna Wellington, and Mark Little of GE Global Research. Guest post by Jennifer Maerz, Contributing Editor of Lean Startup Co.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 25, 2013

In fact, at last year’s Lean Startup conference we had speakers from a number other sectors, including government, transportation, education and public health. Could anything be less like a startup than the federal government? But, as he also said, “Projects within [government] often are.”

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 4, 2018

myself, CTO Mathieu Dupont and Game Designer Olivier Asselin. Startups in this city have a lot of resources, government and otherwise, to help them succeed, including a huge pool of tech and creative expertise. As a company, we participated in 2017 in the Startup areas and we were also a part of the Team Quebec’s exhibit.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 2, 2021

My CTO and I were asked at a cafe to complete a form with our names and contact details, using a pen that had been shared by many diners before and would be shared with many diners after. Why free you ask? It was our aim to provide the solution free of charge in hopes that successful contact tracing would speed up the return of live events.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

Tony Saldanha (P&G Next Gen Svces, Transformant), Farhan Shah (Allstate, CTO, Head of Platform Eng), Munu Gandhi (VP Infrastructure, AON), Virginia Lyons (CISO, Williams Sonoma) and GTM advisors?—?Natalie Dev-first API for interactive emails?—?will will be a great fit with the Salesforce marketing cloud. New CXO advisors join?—?

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Feld Thoughts

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. Government government hackathon open data rally' The open data movement is great for business, but is also great for us as citizens.

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Pascal's View

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

government waits, the more devastating the eventual assault is likely to be.” In fact, because many of the best-trained and most creative experts work in the private sector, blanket secrecy will limit the government’s ability to attract new innovations that could serve the public interest. government.

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www.scottporad.com

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

In fact, that’s exactly how I ended up at Cheezburger—a friend of a friend introduced me to one of the angels who had invested, who then introduced me to the founder (who needed a CTO). What It Really Means To Be a CTO Recent Tweets Error: Twitter did not respond. and Failblog.org. Please wait a few minutes and refresh this page.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 31, 2018

government) giving grants to innovate R&D-based projects and grants for research studies, etc. Aron Yechezkel, our CTO, would definitely open and run a bouldering gym. Sceenic is based in London. Give us some insight into what makes the London startup ecosystem so special. In the U.K. we have organizations such as Innovate U.K.

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 26, 2014

After that it quickly gained credibility and spread throughout government, and corporate America. I have no doubt he will, for he is a true “Startup CEO”, even though his title is CTO at Acquia. more info on the funding round from @thewhir [link].

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