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What is a CTO?

Austin Startup

.” —  Jim Colson , CTO, IBM Watson Solutions Jim Colson Their charter is to see the big picture and develop it into a roadmap, adjusting for insights from customer discovery and driving towards product market fit. They adopt, measure, and manage key product performance metrics. They will review and negotiate all related contracts.

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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. Sjoerd Franken.

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