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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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JUNE 16, 2022

Zendesk offers tech industry people a concise description of how Zendesk can benefit their company. A copywriter looking to see how to write email subject lines for holiday campaigns will likely look at headings, searching for the most relevant information to their task. The accountant is a secondary audience who can influence sales.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 16, 2018

Due to his great ability for engaging communication, Mendlen was chosen as a speechwriter for Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer, composing landmark speeches featured in the media, including Bill Gates’ last speech and Ballmer’s first speech as CEO of Microsoft. The Wiki of People is a free people search engine with 500K profiles and 1.2M

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 7, 2014

However with so many companies being funded these days, just getting a mention in a tech blog doesn’t really impact job seekers. Github, behance and other places where technical talent can showcase their work means that you’re able to identify the people you want to go after.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 7, 2011

Ineze (“Here it is”-in Hebrew), is an Internet search-engine, which aims to reduce the amount of time people spend looking for products, by yielding fine-tuned results based on user needs. Gil and his brother-in-law, Koby Berkovich (CTO), realised the potential in web-based search engine that could pinpoint relevant products for customers.

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View from Seed

JULY 31, 2014

And since we will continue to look proactively at new seed-stage tech startups over the next few years, the question becomes: What, then, will these companies look like? Step-Function Ad Tech. Two weeks ago, my partners and I here at NextView Ventures announced our second fund.

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 3, 2008

3) I am simply assuming you are good at tools and some technical stuff and some business stuff. The first and perhaps most important thing to realize that you have to make two very important very critical very life impacting choices: Choice 1: Business or Technical. Choice 2: Individual Contributor or Team Leader. Motivating them.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Tips included: As you are building your team, never use the Waterfall method (a linear, sequential approach) as in searching one-by-one, taking it step-by-step. You need to start building an MVP for your product during your search. Talk to peers at other firms who have recently hired selected positions (CMO, CTO, CFO).

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 22, 2007 Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups Ive been participating in a Yahoo Group that are users of LinkedIn and who are Bloggers: [link] Its an interesting group of folks from diverse backgrounds. in Computer Science.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2013

I did a presentation this week at Coloft that looked at how Non-Technical Founders can go about getting their MVP built. Examples might be a recommendation engine, search engine, matching engine or something with a complex interface. And the back-end is something that a non-technical founder can manage.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2010

Like many of you, though, I’m always struggling with productivity drains and in search of improvements. Colin Kelley, the CTO of RingRevenue , left a comment in my last post about the need to “ mask interrupts &# in order to get work done. I scan it for the most important messages to be sure nothing urgent has popped up.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Notice that none of those five reasons deals with TDD or automated testing, which have changed the game. This is the approach of test-driven-development (TDD). I really enjoyed the aspect of TDD that had me learning about _how_ to test software and it coerced me into writing better, more fault tolerant, code.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 30, 2014

ReadWriteReflect offers a look back at major technology trends, products and companies of the past year. It also allows team members to search through conversations by keyword or topic. Quip has redesigned office-productivity software for the mobile age. The best thing about Product Hunt is that it values meritocracy.

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Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Kayak was started here in my backyard of Boston… co-founder & CTO Paul English and the product/engineering team is based here in Concord MA. What They Do: Travel search engine. Search Statistics: 2010 Queries: 634 million. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 10, 2020

Our clients, too, place their trust in the Resume Pilots team to manage a critical component of their job search with the end goal of getting them where they want to be in their careers. 6- A ton of manual searches, and a few tools. We workshopped a lot of names, polled friends, and searched the internet. 5- Two ways.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 4, 2022

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! One when scale started to kick in, when we hit the, you know, 200 employees at the head office, 2000 employees system wide, it started to get complex and a little bit outside of my sandbox. And now we've got technology coming in. More About Cameron Herold: The COO Alliance.

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bijoor.me

MARCH 26, 2014

Technology. Affordable Technology. Thanks to Alex Popsecu’s NoSql blog , found a well articulated thesis by Johan den Haan , CTO at Mendix. and also minimizes performance degradation due to server virtualization Examples : Virsto , OpenStack Cinder. ▼ Technology (106). Affordable Technology (9).

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Of the techniques he mentioned, I think four are fundamental and critical for any lean startup: TDD (or the even more politely named TATFT ) Continuous integration Automate your deployments Collect statistics The tools to help you do these things are getting better and better every day, but dont confuse tools with process.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Another called Parker Harris, the co-founder and CTO. The only other ways to get discovered was to have good organic search results or to get covered by a major blog site. We have also been very busy with our next release, which is due out by December 11th (but I’ll save that for a different post). And covered we did.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 15, 2008 The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time Split-testing is a core lean startup discipline, and its one of those rare topics that comes up just as often in a technical context as in a business-oriented one when Im talking to startups. First of all, why split-test?

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konamoxt.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

January 18, 2009 Why Your Startup Can’t Afford To Hire a CTO Before Founding Konamoxt, my last gig was the Chief Technology Officer for a local Seattle Startup. Mr. Startup CEO, I’m here to tell you, you can’t afford to hire a CTO. Can you help us make sure this candidate would make a good CTO?&#

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Seattle should be the envy of any non Silicon Valley tech community in the country. It really wouldn’t take much to turn a great technology ecosystem into a truly electric one. There’s you and your killer CTO co-founder. You need to have passionate tech entrepreneurs who want to build businesses locally.

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www.theenterprisearchitect.eu

MARCH 26, 2014

I will also explain how I constructed this framework, give some example technologies/solutions for each cell of the framework, and show how this framework can be used to compare some of the popular cloud platforms (e.g. We will see that they help a lot in clarifying the technology stack on each layer. speak, write). they are â??engineersâ??).

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www.thisisgoingtobebig.com

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Blog Tumblr About Me NYC Events Meet with Me NYC Community Blog Tumblr About Me NYC Events Meet with Me NYC Community Top Blog Tumblr About Me NYC Events Meet with Me NYC Community Search Chat Links LinkedIn Twitter Facebook Flickr Last.fm If your product is technically feasible, everyone around the table should believe it can get built.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2017

With industries from banking to transportation being transformed and, in some instances, undermined by new business models and technology, executives are smart to wonder, “Are we next?” The innovation function is dedicated to iterative search through experimentation. Not, ‘what's the technology?’ What did the rig-sitter find?

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Share this: net c# development django java language php software Were often asked by entrepreneurs which language their startups should adopt when developing their technology. Technology enthusiasts tend to get tangled up in enthusiasm for their chosen platforms, so wed like to provide an objective summary. PHP is insecure?

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

Its common to find a hacker at the heart of almost any successful technology company. When a startup encounters difficult technical problems, this is the guy you want solving them. As the company grows, hes the go-to person for almost everything technical, and so hes very much in demand. Hire a CTO or VP Engineering.

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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. One partner takes on a business role and the other takes responsibility for technology.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2011

These trusted sources are a new breed of professionals who may soon carry the new title of “information curator,” evolved from the “museum curator” role, where a domain expert filters and communicates the important elements of a past civilization or technology. and books for entrepreneurs like “Think and Grow Rich.”

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

Some great content around the intersection of startups and being a Startup CTO in June this year. This continues my series of posts: Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March There was some really great content in June. And then I took a stand. Productivity. Charles Darwin.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

I’ve had the opportunity to work with many impressive teams and product managers from a broad range of leading tech companies, and this has helped me to get a better sense of the what is essential to the role, and to success. Those were the technology-powered innovations that enabled the new, much more desirable business model.

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ConversionXL

MAY 14, 2014

Trying to find more ways to increase his companies eCommerce conversion rates , Iztok searched & eventually he found Peep’s Book – How To Build Websites That Sell: The Scientific Approach To Websites. Sendi Widjaja, CTO of Avvo, first brought up CRO when he realized that different page types converted ad clicks differently.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Artificial Intelligence is an important, foundational technology that gets more important every year and will be used to solve more and more problems going forward. These events mean that technology is advancing fast enough to make better decisions than humans in order to accomplish a given task. Chris Rust, Clear Ventures).

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Broadly speaking, this action plan is going to be broken up into three sections: the testing plan, the execution plan, and the review section. And, the very last section— the review section — is really just a list of milestones you create that prompt you to review and revise your plan. Your forecast would have been for nothing.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2018

We would have gladly followed Jamie (and Josh Roth, the CTO who is phenomenal and we’ve also known for a decade) right through an IPO if we could have. He created a technology version of Neighborhood Watch where people in your neighborhood could share suspicious footage of individuals around their house.

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www.collegemogul.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

It came as a surprise to us as we thought we did our due diligence.the guys were referred to me from trusted sources with moderately high compliments. Due to the delay, we started looking elsewhere for our other web development projects. On a bootstrapped budget free is great. Originally. Turns out, it has been moderately good.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 15, 2019

After being laid-off (again), I started a sales consulting business helping tech start-ups build, grow, and coach their sales teams. After working in the corporate world for 12 years I saw many quality co-workers laid off due to budget cuts. It seemed unfair that their career was ended so swiftly due to no fault of their own.

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