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See More than 120 Speakers and Mentors at The Lean Startup Conference

Startup Lessons Learned

As the emeritus Chief Technology Officer of the United States, he still connects government and Silicon Valley. He was a very early employee of Facebook , and engineering director there through the moment it blew up. Now he’s VP of engineering at Dropbox , where he’s seeing similar growth.

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The Secret History of Minnesota Part 1: Engineering Research Associates

Steve Blank

No Knowledge of Computers Silicon Valley emerged from work in World War II led by Stanford professor Fred Terman developing microwave and electronics for Electronic Warfare systems. The story starts with a company you probably never heard of – Engineering Research Associates. Parker agreed to invest.

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

Austin Startup

We heard about these developments, among other tech applications, from three industry professionals: Emmy Sobieski , Former Chief Investment Officer at Alderan Capital , Aman Quadri , CEO at AmChart , and Kristen Johns , Partner at Waller Lansden Dortch and Davis LLP. No, but at least we’re talking about it.”

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Reincubate: Blog: Chief Technology Officer job description (for web, start-up or corporate)

www.reincubate.com

Share this: chief technical officer chief technology officer cto interim cto job description start-up startup cto web cto Weve been swapping some thoughts with Daniel Kehoe , a consulting CTO acquaintance of ours from across the pond. Firstly, theres no one-size-fits-all description.

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

blog.expensify.com

Or, rather, more offensively to Facebook and Google employees, less offensive to.NET developers, though the underlying message is the same.). But just to clarify a couple points, 24-hours into the storm: Yes,NET developers are great at what they do. It’s the most modern platform for application development on the planet.

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