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Want to Know Difference Between a CTO and a VP of Engineering?

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Raising Venture Capital. Want to Know Difference Between a CTO and a VP of Engineering? 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?” The VP Engineering aspires to manage teams. Start-up Advice.

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The Secret History of Minnesota Part 1: Engineering Research Associates

Steve Blank

Norris became the VP of Engineering, Engstrom the VP of Research, and Meader VP of Manufacturing. The company took on any engineering work that came their way but were kept in business developing new code-breaking machines for the Navy. A contract for a system named O’Malley followed.

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9 Austin Startup Week Sessions at Capital Factory That Blew Us Away

Austin Startup

Opening Night Happy Hour and Keynote with Scott Kupor: Secrets of Sandhill Road | Fundraising Track Joshua Baer , Founder and CEO at Capital Factory, delved into the transforming realm of venture capital with Scott Kupor , Managing Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. When we bring startups in front of customers.

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Ardent 1: Supercomputers Get Personal

Steve Blank

A Phone Call After I left MIPS Computers I was in New York tagging along with a friend (a computer architect whose products at Apple a decade later would change the shape of personal computing) who was consulting for a voice recognition startup. I’ve convinced the team you’d be perfect, come join us as the VP of Marketing.”

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Convergent Technologies: War Story 1 – Selling with Sports Scores.

Steve Blank

Twenty eight years ago I was the bright, young, eager product marketing manager called out to the field to support sales by explaining the technical details of Convergent Technologies products to potential customers. These companies would take our computers and put their name on them and resell them to their customers.

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Women 2.0 » FounderDating: How I Found My Co-Founder

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After quitting my job and starting Sorced , I spent a few months validating my business concept by creating the product mockups and doing customer development. So, we chose a business concept, established the pain point, discussed the solution, identified monetization and customer acquisition strategies, and assessed market opportunity.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

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Do a curl (or your.NET equivalent) on each domain, and see how many are running a Windows server: I think you’ll find the fraction very small. If you want to serve enterprise customers,NET is one of the best ways to do that and do it well. There have been several comments regarding your post over at HackerNews. How about ABAPer?

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