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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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GTK’s and Pillsbury’s Internet of Things Executive Event - 2015 Edition

Growthink Blog

The ability to measure outputs, in real time, allows for fractionalized delivery of traditional industrial services - like as mentioned by Splunk CTO Snehal Antani - the rental and leasing forklifts not by a period of time (i.e. New Business Models. hour, day, year) but instead by the amount of lift of weight lifted and moved.

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Presidential Innovation Fellows, round two

Startup Lessons Learned

RFP-EZ and Innovative Contracting Tools Making it easier for the government to do business with small, high-growth tech companies, and enabling the government to buy better, lower-cost tech solutions from the full range of American businesses. Similarly, the Green Button team at the U.S. ProjectMyUSA on Twitter.

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: athenahealth

Seeing Both Sides

and Todd Park, a pair of Booz Allen consultants, as a physician practice management company for obstetrics. See chart below: The reach the organization has achieved is impressive, but still only a fraction of the market opportunity. It's a contract for life. We have contracts for life. Athenahealth version 1.0

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Product Launches: 5 Unexpected Lessons from the Real World

ConversionXL

Amazon’s Chief Technology Officer, Werner Vogels, summarizes the purpose of the press release: “Writing a press release up front clarifies how the world will see the product – not just how we think about it internally.”. Nichole Elizabeth DeMeré , a B2B SaaS consultant, lamented that.

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Oppose HB 1192 – The “Software Tax”

VC Adventure

My longtime friend Marion Jenkins, CEO of IT consultant QSE Technologies wrote what I think is one of the most eloquent and well thought out rebuttals to the proposed Colorado “Software Tax” (HB 1192). In addition, information technology is at the core of green/sustainable energy initiatives.

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24 Entrepreneurs Share Their Favorite Inspirational Business Quote

Hearpreneur

Thank you to Gene Caballero, Your Green Pal ! #9 This quote is from Oleg Vishnepolsky the global CTO at DailyMail Online and Metro.co.uk. After years of hard work, I succeeded in building a multi-million dollar marketing consulting firm that served mostly Fortune 1000 clients. There are 3 8-hour work days in one 24 hour day.