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What is a CTO?

Austin Startup

As a CTO, I can definitely say without a doubt that few people understand what a CTO does. When I tell someone I’m a CTO, I’m often met with a blank stare. Even when someone is aware of what a CTO does, they often have limited context due to the wide variety of CTO roles.

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

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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Scaling from maker to manager

Version One Ventures

the difference between becoming a CTO who provides technical direction vs. VP of Engineering who manages the whole dev team). For example, at Version One we organize approximately ten founder dinners per year in locations like San Francisco, NYC, and Toronto.

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What's Next for "The Startup Way"

Startup Lessons Learned

A few thing as we move into Week 2 of my book tour: I'm now in Los Angeles and San Francisco to promote The Startup Way. Launch week was busy to say the least, with lots of interviews, Quora and Reddit A MAs, and events across three states. A heartfelt thank you to everyone for turning out, reading, and offering support!

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Honor Technology Closes $370 Million in Financing, Plans to Triple its Engineering and Product…

Austin Startup

The funding will be used to further invest in hiring remote workers, with an emphasis on the greater Austin and San Francisco areas due to Honor’s existing office footprints, and to expand Honor’s groundbreaking operations and technology capabilities across the Home Instead network, which has three offices in the greater Austin area.

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Two Weeks until "The Startup Way"

Startup Lessons Learned

October 30 through November 5, we're gathering thousands of thought leaders in downtown San Francisco for a week of keynote talks, interactive workshops, speed mentoring, roundtable discussions, industry dinners, innovation bootcamps, and startup tours. Enter your order confirmation information at bit.ly/thestartupway

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[US][Event] CITE 2014

YoungUpstarts

Consumerization of IT in the Enterprise (CITE) Conference & Expo will return for its third edition this year, taking place April 27-29 at the Hilton Union Square in San Francisco. Events & Happenings CITE event innovation IT technology'