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How I Found a Great CTO

www.huffingtonpost.com

Ive occasionally worked with executive recruiters, for example in hiring a CTO for my first company, Eve.com. To sum up, heres what I would do again as a non-technical founder looking for a technical co-founder or CTO. Minted.com is both a global design community and stationery retailer. Dove Ad Casts Spotlight On Madison Avenue.

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Do You Want An MBA For The Right Reasons?

YoungUpstarts

by Ben Williams, CTO at Reelio Labs. Along with rankings, there are other value judgments people make regarding universities’ reputations. He is currently the CTO at Reelio Labs, a tech startup based in New York City. Do I like the brand of the institution? Is it known for being traditional or innovative?

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The Case for Optimism and Risk at Startups

Both Sides of the Table

Who else would publicly try to launch people into space so that one day we might be able to fly people from New York to Tokyo in 90 minutes. But my chips are in on uBeam and I’m not afraid to put my reputation on the line the same way entrepreneurs must each day. They have a can-do attitude that is infectious.

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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

(Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. Because of IMVUs reputation, Ive also had the opportunity to serve as an advisor or board member for more than a dozen startups.

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Ardent 1: Supercomputers Get Personal

Steve Blank

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times Ardent would be my third technology company as a VP of Marketing (Convergent Technologies and MIPS Computers were the other two.) And so was his reputation for being verbally abusive to his direct reports. Wasn’t he a CTO or something? (He

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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. Delegate and automate. learned this the hard way.

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Creating an Awesome Conference: Brooklyn Beta

This is going to be BIG.

I saw Marco Arment talk about building Instapaper on the side while he was CTO of our portfolio company Tumblr. The New York ecosystem needs these events for the most innovative practitioners just as much as it needs open, educational events for newbies. And I saw a bunch of demos of beta services spliced in between the talks.”

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