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What is a CTO?

Austin Startup

If outward facing, they will attend important sales calls and speak to the technology strategy and vision. They adopt, measure, and manage key product performance metrics. A CTO is in the business of scale, for whatever an organization has as its core metrics. They will review and negotiate all related contracts.

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

Startup Lessons Learned

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. Aditya Agarwal has lived through startup hypergrowth--twice. He’ll bring us real-world advice.

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Lessons Learned: The hacker's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

As a last disclaimer, please consult the definition of the word hacker if youre not familiar with the controversies surrounding that term.) Our CTO is the CEO himself, but he lacks the understanding of the new software development processes and the new technologies. Suffice to say, most of the hackers Ive known have been men.

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

blog.expensify.com

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. This literally the dumbest, most ignorant piece that I’ve ever read about software development and/or hiring programmers. Look what happened to Gawker. March 25, 2011 at 3:23 pm.

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