Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2010

Because more technology people probably read startup blogs I’m guessing this post will come under more scrutiny. The terms “CTO&# and “VP Engineering&# have such stigmas associated with what they are that I’m sure some people will feel uncomfortable with the definitions I’ve put forward. Experience.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 13, 2011

We had an interesting presentation at the LA CTO Forum by the CTO of a startup who chose Groovy / Grails as the framework for their startup. t prompted a good discussion around how CTOs go about choosing the programming language and framework for their startup. The rest is just down and dirty algorithmic programming.

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dontbesoanalytical.blogspot.com

MAY 13, 2012

Daddy, What Does a Chief Technology Officer Do? I’ve seen openings for a “CTO” whose responsibilities include maintaining servers and managing the help desk. I’ve seen openings for a “CTO” whose responsibilities include maintaining servers and managing the help desk.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 24, 2020

by Chad Ruff, Chief Technology Officer at Swiftpage. These programs can also provide SMBs the opportunity to create an organized posting strategy, analyze performance and respond to customers across multiple platforms from one easy-to-use interface. The challenge is that in-depth market research can be costly.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Based on my posts Startup CTO or Developer and Acting CTO , Chris O’Meara wrote an interesting post Startup CTO: Could It Work? They tend to have the programming background to lead competent people by example and dig in and prove it where necessary. I love blog conversations. They tend to have the knack for architecture.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 30, 2008 What does a startup CTO actually do? What does your Chief Technology Officer do all day? So what does CTO mean, besides just "technical founder who really cant manage anyone?" So I initially gravitated to the CTO title, and not VP of Engineering.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 8, 2022

As a longtime Facebook engineering leader and now Meta’s new CTO, Andrew Bosworth has been at the center of many decisions Facebook/Meta made in the last decade, so I decided to ask him Five Questions. Hunter Walk: For me, two formative moments with technology occurred pre-adulthood: Print Shop on the Mac and Alt.Net newsgroups.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Nand Mulchandani is the Chief Technology Officer of the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC). They have (by DoD standards) an extremely fast pipeline from problem curation, to evaluating and selecting companies, then prototyping projects and inserting them into DoD programs.

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

This is especially true when it comes to tech companies hiring the wrong chief technology officer. Today, CTOs are multi-taskers that aren’t just coders locked in some basement — they play a vital role in a tech company’s strategic plan and growth. Zach Cutler , The Cutler Group.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 10, 2012

It was like having a bunch of mini- Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions all in one room. This is exactly the kind of thing I'm doing as a Part-Time CTO or Technical Advisor for startups. CTO Founder - Do they really still need a technical advisor? I've talked about this before in Startup CTO or Developer.

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www.lanceglasser.com

MAY 13, 2012

What does a CTO do? What does a CTO do? What does a CTO (Chief Technology Officer) do in a high-tech company? So what is the CTO job? First it is to ensure that the company has the best technology. This is where you should see the CTO. Tricks of the trade. Woe be the average man.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Talk descriptions, speakers, workshops, evening events, Ignite, Office Hours…but we’re getting a little ahead of ourselves. We took the feedback we gathered in previous years to expand on and improve the program. And, again, you can now see the whole program on our site. Pitch in for a shift, and we’ll give you a Silver Pass.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 17, 2014

You’re the CTO. As a CTO, you have a whole new set of responsibilities to take care of that do not involve coding. One reason why you’re the CTO, is obviously because you’re good at what you do. If you are a CTO and wondering if you’re not doing enough technically, don’t feel bad about it. Cheers to you!

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www.bothsidesofthetable.com

MAY 13, 2012

Want to Know Difference Between a CTO and a VP of Engineering? Because more technology people probably read startup blogs I’m guessing this post will come under more scrutiny. I hope many will read this and have an answer for the question, “what’s the different between a CTO and a VP of Engineering?”

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Another way to learn more about who’s speaking is to sort the conference program by category and find people addressing specific topics. As the emeritus Chief Technology Officer of the United States, he still connects government and Silicon Valley. For example: Mitch Kapor was a founder of Lotus.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Guest post by Jennifer Maerz, Program Chair of Lean Startup Co. For eight years, our flagship conference has focused on sharing stories and lessons of putting Lean Startup’s entrepreneurial methodology into practice.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Web Startup Lessons Advice from a CTO and Entrepreneur Home About Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO There are not many to be found. He or she might call himself a “consulting CTO,&# “freelance CTO,&# “on-demand CTO,&# “CTO on call,&# “CTO for hire,&# or just a “technology strategy advisor.&#

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OnlyOnce

AUGUST 19, 2015

I’ve written a couple times this past year about our ReturnShip program, which is a 4-month paid internship program designed for women who have been out of the workforce for more than 3 year to re-enter and build credible and relevant experience, and to expand the talent pool for our organization.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 30, 2019

by Will Koffel , head of the Google Cloud Startup Program in the Americas. In 2013, I left a CTO job overseeing a 50-person product engineering team for the same job at a four-person startup. CTOs must discern between features where a first impression is critical and those that teams can improve iteratively.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 8, 2019

When International Technological University’s CTO Kranthi Lammatha was a boy in the Indian farming village of Kasipuram, he would walk nine miles to get to school every day and another nine miles to get back home in the evening. Success and Sustainability. Kranthi Lammatha.

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blog.chrisomeara.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Chris OMeara Main | Probing Code Quality » 01/31/2010 Startup CTO: Could It Work? A CEO friend of mine recently asked my opinion about Tony Karrers Startup CTO or Developer article. I think the part time CTO could work. If you think thats person you need, the question becomes "what else do you expect a CTO to contribute?"

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 2, 2013

See: [link] Additional Resources How to Hunt Programmers for Your Startup - A Field Guide Finding a Technical Cofounder for Your Startup Choosing a Programming Language and Framework for Your Startup Startup Founder Developer Gap Startup Software Developers Technology Roles in Startups Startup CTO or Developer Startup Metrics Building Your MVP as a (..)

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Isaac Cambron is co-founder and CTO of Zensight.co , whose pre-launch product enables sales reps to find and use their best content to close more deals. Below, he answers questions about developing products from scratch, as well as the difficult technology choices and tradeoffs CTOs must make.

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www.huffingtonpost.com

MAY 10, 2011

Ive occasionally worked with executive recruiters, for example in hiring a CTO for my first company, Eve.com. Programming Language - many top engineers I spoke with prefer python and dont like working in PHP. To sum up, heres what I would do again as a non-technical founder looking for a technical co-founder or CTO.

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Nothing that I programmed ever compiled perfectly the first time. Despite being decades into coding, most developers still debug with “printf” statements, essentially adding code to generate specific output while the program is executing. The output generated can then be used to help diagnose issues within the program.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 27, 2010

There are a bunch of questions in Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Before You Develop Anything and in Startup CTO or Developer. Now there are some hard challenges around what technologies to use to balance short-term and long-term. This is somewhat the heart of what a CTO does. Do not hire a CTO at this point.

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David Teten

JUNE 6, 2011

The new FinTech Innovation Lab , an annual program run by the New York City Investment Fund and Accenture, had their launch event on Thursday night. This is definitely not the norm in accelerator programs; I’d be curious to know the logic. Previously CTO, Goldman Sachs. Formerly MS IT department. 15 yrs at MS.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 24, 2014

by Adam Root, founder and CTO of Hiplogiq. To start, I used Google AdWords to target potential users and direct traffic to a landing page that communicated the value of the program. He’s the founder and CTO of Hiplogiq , makers of marketing technologies SocialCompass and SocialCentiv. A DUI lawyer? Didn’t think so.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 19, 2024

Kenneth Wenger – Unveiling the Future of AI Kenneth Wenger is an author, a research scholar at Toronto Metropolitan University, and CTO of Squint AI Inc. His research interests lie at the intersection of humans and machines, ensuring that we build a future based on the responsible use of technology.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 27, 2014

Presented by IDG Enterprise, this year’s conference looks to bring together more than 750 IT, business and HR executives, venture capitalists and thought leaders to showcase their leading efforts and teach others how to make the most of this transformation of technology. Events & Happenings CITE event innovation IT technology'

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 27, 2018

by Harsha Cuttari, CTO of AQUA Intelligence. The study, also reveals that Millennials are less likely to be members of loyalty rewards programs, but more likely to be loyal to the programs they are already in. But, how exactly are Millennials spending their money and to what extent do companies have power over them?

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mashable.com

MARCH 24, 2011

Thinking of applying to one (or all) of the summer accelerator/incubator/angel/mentoring programs like TechStars , Joystick Labs , or any of those found on this comprehensive list ? That’s one of the things we might develop during the summer program. via 7 Common Mistakes Startups Make on Accelerator Program Applications. [.]

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 16, 2018

6:30pm – 7:45pm – Speaker program. He is also an Executive Producer and Creative Director of the DECODED Show , the documentary web series led by Microsoft Chief Geek, John Shewchuk – CTO for the Microsoft Developer Platform. AGENDA: 5:45pm – 6:30pm – Networking reception. Dave Mendlen with Steve Ballmer.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 12, 2015

by Ben Williams, CTO at Reelio Labs. Pursuing an MBA can be extremely expensive, and the best programs are often the most costly. What particular program do I need? Not all MBA programs are created equal; different programs focus on different areas of expertise. Can I handle it financially?

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The concept of a Chief Marketing Officer comes from large enterprises, but it is a role that has grown exponentially in the last couple of years. Other responsibilities of a Fractional CMO are creating programs that support employees in different ways. A fractional CMO is basically a part-time version of this position.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 19, 2014

The key members of the team CEO, CTO, Principal investigator, need to be actively engaged talking to customers, partners, regulators, etc. Program Director/Principal Investigator (PD/PI): The assigned PD/PI on the SBIR/STTR Phase I award. And that’s just what we’re doing at the National Institutes of Health. Join the I-Corps @ NIH. (I’ll

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Today, I'm excited to share the latest round of startups that are being run by the Presidential Innovation Fellows program. I've excerpted descriptions of the program and summaries of all the projects below. Take a look and judge for yourself. Each of these five project teams have made remarkable progress.

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