A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

APRIL 15, 2014

As the CTO of a 130-person company that’s still growing along every dimension at a prodigious rate, that’s the appropriate job description. Keep that RSS reader enabled. But I can’t share anything about it. All that said, I do have more to share. I have a backlog of posts in various states of completion.

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devver.wordpress.com

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Boulder CTO December Lunch with Tim Wolters with 5 comments The Boulder CTO Lunch meets once a month with a guest speaker and covers topics and questions that startup CTOs should find interesting. The Role As a CTO, you paint a landscape of the product and market. There are two kinds of CTOs: tactical and visionary.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

I tried to make it a little more entertaining than your average job RSS feed. CTO, Modcloth – San Francisco, CA (corrected from e-mail version) Remember that girl from back home? The ideal candidate has experience with eCommerce systems, emerging mobile and social technologies, as well as RoR. How do you like them apples?

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

Almost every day I'm talking to early stage startup founders (see Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions ) about what they plan to do. Do you need to provide RSS? I tend to ask a lot of questions, challenge aspects, make suggestions. But I've often been very surprised by one aspect of these conversations. Dismissable?

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

Almost every day I'm talking to early stage startup founders (see Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions ) about what they plan to do. Do you need to provide RSS? I tend to ask a lot of questions, challenge aspects, make suggestions. But I've often been very surprised by one aspect of these conversations. Dismissable?

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www.informationarbitrage.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Main February 23, 2010 Advice for CTO Founders: Dont Let Business Kill the Business Founding a technology company is an amazing thing. Too often, however, I have found CTO / Founders paired with business people who not only don't add value, but frequently detract from the value of the business.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Wasn’t he a CTO or something? (He 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? To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print! Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 8, 2009

We know Ben W was the CTO. I’m going to go get a coffee now, and you can have your meeting with those at our company you respect enough to not insult. Chris Ryland , on October 8, 2009 at 1:35 pm Said: OK, so who was the CEO? You’re making him look good, so he should’t mind. To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print!

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www.entrepreneur.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

First-time entrepreneurs often think "If I approach a VC with a chief technology officer or chief prototype designer in place, then I'm more likely to get funded." Subscribe to Entrepreneur RSS. Entrepreneur Magazine. Entrepreneur Startups. Download Entrepreneur. apps for Android. Entrepreneur Mobile.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Web Startup Lessons Advice from a CTO and Entrepreneur Home About Finding a Technical Partner for Your Startup Today I received an inquiry from a student at an Ivy League university who wants to launch a web startup. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 says: July 10, 2009 at 11:17 am fantastic article.

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OCTOBER 10, 2010

He thinks about how he can offer solutions, not create more problems like RSS readers did. User centric design is creating a real sustainable advantage in the same way technology used to. A CTO will also want to ensure that the businesspeople on their team will understand important product and technical decisions.

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Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2009

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] ). Whenever he did that most vendors would ignore him in the meeting. To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print! Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 28, 2011

In Gates and Ellison’s minds, the corporations who owned the Information Super Highway would tax every transaction by charging a “vigorish” as Microsoft’s then Chief Technology Officer Nathan Myhrvold referred to it at the time. The implications of the propriety vision were not good. Rockmelt and the next wave of innovation.

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www.avc.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

The first bracket is the senior management team; the CFO, Chief Revenue Officer/VP Sales, Chief Marketing Officer/VP Marketing, Chief Product Officer/VP Product, CTO, VP Eng, Chief People Officer/VP HR, General Counsel, and anyone else on the senior team. RSS Twitter Tumblr.

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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). Subscribe to comments with RSS or TrackBack to Mailbag: How do I find a developer to help me with my idea? and Failblog.org.

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bijoor.me

MARCH 26, 2014

Thanks to Alex Popsecu’s NoSql blog , found a well articulated thesis by Johan den Haan , CTO at Mendix. Slideshare. February 18, 2014. 1 comment. A framework for categorizing and comparing cloud platforms – OpenStack, AWS, Heroku, CloudFoundry!

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mashable.com

MARCH 24, 2011

blog comments powered by Disqus Subscribe To Mashable Twitter Twitter 2,235,898+ Followers YouTube Stumble RSS RSS Feed 526,774+ Subscribers Android iPhone iPad More subscription options » Advertise Here Mashable News In Your Inbox Mashable Connect. It *is* important to demonstrate the team can produce product, somehow.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Ted Serbinski: Angel investor Ted Serbinski sold his startup MothersClick to Lifetime in 2008 and joined the cable network as CTO of the ParentsClick Network. blog comments powered by Disqus More Subscription Options » Twitter RSS Top 6 Today 1 After Giants' World Series Win, San Francisco E.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 14, 2008

At the CTO Group that I organize in Santa Monica, we've had lots of discussions around this. From BBM's web site: media RSS - extensions to RSS subscription format to support time based media, enclosures, copyrights and other meta-data needed for media. I'm blogging from the CalTech Enterprise Forum.

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Scott Edward Walker

OCTOBER 31, 2011

If you’d like to see all of my tweets (or an RSS feed of them), you can do so here. Cheers, Scott Top 5 Tweets Quora: “What makes someone an awesome co-founder CTO?” Below are my five most popular tweets (via bit.ly ) for the past two weeks and a couple of blog-related tweets.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Great content again in September that meets at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. But the other piece of the argument is, of course, an argument for why your company should build open source - why it should develop its technology in a community-driven, open sourced way.

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APRIL 20, 2007

type tools (Blogs, Wikis, Social Bookmarking, RSS, RSS Readers) on corporate learning and someone like HBS. Really fun stuff these days. One of my recent fun experiences was doing a presentation at Harvard Business School (HBS) on the implications of Web 2.0

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 4, 2011

ReadWriteCloud ReadWriteWeb Channels ReadWriteStart ReadWriteBiz ReadWriteEnterprise ReadWriteCloud ReadWriteHack ReadWriteMobile International ReadWriteBrazil ReadWriteChina ReadWriteFrance ReadWriteSpain ReadWriteCloud All Posts VMworld Archives Case Studies White Papers RSS Twitter Facebook Would You Outsource Your Startup to a SaaS?

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

If you start framing the technology solution, then you’re not looking for a CTO or a tech co–founder, you’re looking for a contractor or employee to implement that solution, which is perfectly fine if you know what you’re doing. Business & Technology (18). Search: RSS Feed. be a sensible devil’s advocate).

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www.theenterprisearchitect.eu

MARCH 26, 2014

Leave a Reply Cancel reply Search About Im Johan den Haan, CTO at Mendix. Building blocks from each cloud layer are needed: Infra-structure-as-a-Service (IaaS), (Foundational) Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), […] Frank Leymann March 16, 2014 | Reply Very valuable article! Your framework is very helpful: Thanks! startupcto'

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 7, 2009

It might also be through twitter, Facebook, SMS, RSS, voice, etc. For most web products, the way that I end up going to them is that they somehow remind me that they are out there and have something of value. How does that happen? Well likely it’s email. Don’t be a Ning!

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

500 Hats , February 1, 2010 When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication? 500 Hats , February 1, 2010 When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication? First Principles.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Subscribe the the RSS feed for each of these. Other Tactics Some other tactics we discussed: Link Searches – Use BackTweets to search for anyone who has linked to you in Twitter, and IceRocket to search for anyone linking to your blog. Use Ping.fm to update multiple statuses.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

If you are a non-technical type and you really, really think you have a unique idea and you have some secret sauce -- unique content, a proprietary system, or an exclusive business relationship -- that nobody else can duplicate, first try to find a CTO-type to partner with you. Please leave a reply: subscribe RSS feed Twitter email list.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Subscribe to comments with RSS. I think the real moral of this story is, (1) if you want to work at a startup, make sure the CTO cares about problem solving and not technology religion, (2) if you’re cooking steaks on a gas grill and you see your CTO warming up a dead squirrel over a book of matches, starting looking for a new job.

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