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What does a CTO do?

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Product development. Queuing theory and product development. The Essential Product Investigation Phase Gate. So you want to ship the product early? What does a CTO do? Silicon Valley melting pot. What does a CTO do? So what is the CTO job? Metrics for cyclical businesses.

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Beyond the garage

Startup Lessons Learned

And, most importantly, the Lean Startup idea is starting to take root in industries and contexts very different from it’s Silicon Valley roots. And this year, we’re going to talk not just about business and product development, but we’ll be exploring one of the Lean Starutp movements next big frontiers: the role of design.

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How Sin-Mei Tsai, Shippo’s VP of Engineering, Defines Code Quality

Version One Ventures

She is a Silicon Valley veteran – having been the Senior Director of Engineering at Yodlee, then holding several CTO, Chief Architect, and other engineering leadership roles at a few startups before landing at Shippo in 2016. Above all, the purpose of product development is to create value for customers.

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Are You Putting Your Rock Star Customers To Work?

YoungUpstarts

Talented product developers. When 3M brought “lead users” into its innovation process, they improved revenues by a factor of eight times over innovations from internal product developers. Some of the most creative technology coming out of Silicon Valley is designed to do exactly that.

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He's Only in Field Service

Steve Blank

Look for some “ skunk works &# project where the product developers are actively seeking alternatives to their own engineering organization. Little did they know, that he was also the CTO and the person responsible for making all tech decisions Folklore has some interesting stories about Burrell Smith ( [link] ).

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Startups Lessons: Product First

Venture Chronicles

This is where we really erred in our approach, engineering and product management all report up to the CTO, and the company fundamentally underinvested in product management as a functional area. and by framing it as a binary choice I am perpetuating the problem in many ways. We should have been able to do both.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 4

Both Sides of the Table

Investors: Matrix (Dana Stadler, who was the CTO of PayPal). The investment will be used for product development initiatives. 15mm in Series A. Read more: TechCrunch. Blippy is a service that allows you to automatically share your credit card transactions as you make them.