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International Student Success in Tech – A CTO’s Journey

The Startup Magazine

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. Looking to Solve Problems. Success and Sustainability. Kranthi Lammatha.

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Hear how the Lean Startup began — and helped one company find success: Episode 2 on Sirius XM Channel 111: Eric Ries and Jon Sebastiani

Steve Blank

Eric Ries co-founded Catalyst Recruiting while attending Yale, and continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com. He later co-founded and served as CTO of IMVU and then authored The Lean Startup. That’s part of the magic of Silicon Valley.”.

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A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Our Recent Seed-Stage VC Investments

View from Seed

Furthermore, one of our recent investments was in Silicon Valley, as all three of us have lived and worked there. Included in our recent investments in this category are both Dunwello (rethinking how employee feedback and reviews are delivered) and a stealthy investment in NYC empowering software engineers.

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Boston Tech Community (Fall 2013 Edition)

Rob Go

link] – Not a meetup, but a great mentorship program started by serial CTO Sean Lindsay. Extension Engine - Software engineering and design. Dharmesh Shah – Co-founder and CTO, HubSpot ( blog , @dharmesh). Dan Allred – Silicon Valley Bank (@dgallred). No agenda, just come by and talk tech at Voltage.

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Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?

www.quora.com

Developer, engineer, CTO, or technical co-founder? I do disagree about two other points: First, this isn't the "quora rockstar engineer" perspective. It's my perspective as well and I'm not a software engineer let alone a rockstar. John Furrier , Silicon Valley is my playground - Liv.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 8 – AI – Chris Lynch and Nand Mulchandani

Steve Blank

He also said, “The most important hire I made in my time at the JAIC was the chief technology officer, Nand Mulchandani.” In this class session Nand Mulchandani, JAIC CTO who just completed an extended stint as Acting Director, continued the discussion of AI and the role of the JAIC. That’s it. How Will AI Be Used?

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Ardent 2: Get Out of My Building

Steve Blank

For this startup we had assembled some of the best and brightest hardware and software engineers in the computer industry. My boss, the CEO, had just come from a string of successes at Convergent Technologies, Intel and Digital Equipment, names that at that time carried a lot of weight. We know Ben W was the CTO.