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Daddy, What Does a Chief Technology Officer Do?

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The CTO should not manage developers. The head of development spends his or her time working to keep the development team on track against a set of product plans. Inside the development organization, this Director attends to staffing, training, workload and productivity metrics, budget, and scheduling.

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Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition | For Entrepreneurs

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Think about your own behavior: if you are like me, you hate having to deal with sales people, and greatly prefer to do your own research starting with search engines, and leveraging free trials, on-line videos, blogs, reviews, and your social network. What is Twitter hadn't gone to SXSW in 2007? This is a mistake.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter December 2010 Edition

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. “Juniper is excited to acquire one of the industry’s leading virtualization security vendors and the extremely talented team that built it,&# – Mark Bauhaus, executive vice president and general manager, Juniper Networks. TEVA CEO RANKED 20TH ON FORTUNE LIST. From 1999 to 2009, Teva’s revenue grew to about $14 billion from $1.3