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How to build an agile and scalable SaaS for long-term success

The Next Web

James Kenigsberg is the Chief Technology Officer and a founding team member at 2U , an educational technology company that partners with universities to offer online degree programs. Create accessible technology. Build the technology to suit your customer. In other words, keep it simple.

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Advice for CTO Founders: Don't Let Business Kill the Business

www.informationarbitrage.com

Home About Press IA Capital Partners Archives After 17 years in M&A, Derivatives and Trading, Im spending my time with young entrepreneurs in and around financial technology and digital media. Main February 23, 2010 Advice for CTO Founders: Dont Let Business Kill the Business Founding a technology company is an amazing thing.

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Why Online Video Just Took One More Big Step to Legitimacy

Both Sides of the Table

He joined when Maker was a small, chaotic organization and helped bridge our talented creative team with the outside world of investor, brands, partners & press. Another major hire was Ryan Lissack who joined as CTO.

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How Technology and Training Fueled One Ad-Based Company’s Growth

ReadWriteStart

That’s when he reached out on Twitter to make connections, and AJ Wilcox connected him to Dennis Yu, the chief technology officer at BlitzMetrics, which is now one of the top Facebook agencies worldwide. When Young first met Yu, Young didn’t even know who Mark Zuckerberg was.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Milis Bio

Austin Startup

Complete our product pilot with our new partners, Grupo Bimbo, in designing a sweetener of the future for the baked goods industry. I know our CTO, Dr. Paul Young, closely follows developments in lab grown meats. Hugh Forrest serves as Chief Programming Officer at SXSW , the world’s most unique gathering of creative professionals.

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Our Investment in One Jackson: Fresh, Yet Familiar

Genuine VC

CEO Anne Raimondi and my partner Rob were colleagues together at eBay in the early 2000’s before she went on the lead product and/or marketing at many household internet names like Zazzle, InsiderPages, and SurveyMonkey. Many of the inputs going into this investment were known to us at NextView.

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Ardent 1: Supercomputers Get Personal

Steve Blank

Wasn’t he a CTO or something? (He He was my role model at Convergent, mentor at Ardent and partner at E.piphany. I liked the fact that you linked to the wikipedia page for a payphone — nice touch Reply Chris Ryland , on October 5, 2009 at 12:06 pm Said: Where did Ben Wegbreit fit in the Convergent picture?