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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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Your Guide to the Complete Lean Startup Conference Program

Startup Lessons Learned

We’ve recently added talks from: Former US CTO and current tech advisor to the White House, Todd Park; former Facebook engineering director Joceyln Goldfein; Dropbox engineering VP Aditya Agarwal; and KISSMetrics founder Hiten Shah. Platinum Passholders will spend December 8 visiting four successful San Francisco startups.

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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

(Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Your "startup-lessons-learned" are very valuable. Would love to get in touch.

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Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

In this model, you take some fraction of the lifetime value of each customer and plow that back into paid acquisition through SEM, banner ads, PR, affiliates, etc. For Neopets, its simply a side-effect of their game-like product design. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Seth Godin: How often should you publish?

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Women 2.0 Pitch Night…batter swing!

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

Pitch Night in San Francisco. The business model for residential solar panel company: contract with customer, local rebates, and tax benefits. Nexpense - you streamline business expense processing, but how, what’s cool about the technology? Presenter: Judith Nelson (Founder & Designer, Chouette).

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Women 2.0 Pitch Night…batter swing!

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

Pitch Night in San Francisco. The business model for residential solar panel company: contract with customer, local rebates, and tax benefits. Nexpense – you streamline business expense processing, but how, what’s cool about the technology? Presenter: Judith Nelson (Founder & Designer, Chouette).