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Startup CTO or Developer

TechEmpower

Should a startup CTO spend their time programming? That’s why the CTO’s attention is on programming for the earliest stage. But be careful, and mind the gap – the Founder-Developer Gap, that is! But hiring a lead developer, or even a VP of Engineering, can create a gap between the founders and the developers.

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Female Founder and Author Interview: Minué Yoshida

The Startup Magazine

As part of The Startup Magazine’s Female Founder Interview series , today we present Minué Yoshida, owner of the New York-based Yoshida Academy which offers courses to help clients in mastering public speaking and leadership skills and diversity, equity and inclusion consulting. We see this so often! TSM: Oh thank you!

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Choosing a Programming Language and Framework for Your Startup

SoCal CTO

t prompted a good discussion around how CTOs go about choosing the programming language and framework for their startup. Or you might have an investor (or founder) who's convinced that you need to work in a given language (some VCs love Ruby right now). The rest is just down and dirty algorithmic programming.

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Female Founder Interview – Olga Camargo Leads Latinas Fintech Advisory

The Startup Magazine

Today we present Olga Camargo as part of The Startup Magazine’s Female Founder Interview series. Olga has a great story as CEO and Founder of SHENIX , a Chicago-based fintech app company focused on financial education and advisory services for Latinas. Chicago Council on Global Affairs 2010 Emerging Leaders Program Selection.

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Female Founder Interview: Author and Business Leader Martha Razo

The Startup Magazine

As part of The Startup Magazine’s Female Founder Interview series , we interviewed Martha Razo, author of the book, Business Diva: Stories of Women Leading in Business. I have learned to develop my own algorithms, program, analyze big data and processes. Razo, CEO of Guero Pallets, Inc. I am pursuing my Ph.D.

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Uri Levine’s new book is a reminder for founders to put the problem first

VC Cafe

But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains” Steve Jobs (from Chapter 8) I got to meet Uri Levine, the founder of Waze and Moovit, through his involvement in the Zell Entrepreneurship program at Reichman University. It starts from how founders pitch their startups.

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Options about your Options – How to think through your company’s option program

VC Adventure

It’s perhaps a boring topic – Options and your company’s option program – but an important one. My hope with this post is to push your thinking around options and encourage you to formalize what you’re doing into an actual option program. Why have an option program to begin with?