2010 Agile Engineer Fractional VPE 
www.bothsidesofthetable.com
MAY 13, 2012
Want to Know Difference Between a CTO and a VP of Engineering? This time I thought I’d try and address engineering talent. Often I’m asked by startup CEO’s about how to best build an engineering team. Raising Venture Capital. Angel Topics. Entrepreneur DNA. Sales & Marketing. Negotiations.
Steve Blank
JUNE 25, 2009
Their engineering teams didn’t have the expertise using off-the-shelf microprocessors (back then “real” computer companies designed their own instruction sets and operating systems.) Their engineers hated us. The Consultative Sale Our sales guy then quietly asked if there was any way we could help them. Help them?!!
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Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 30, 2008
So I initially gravitated to the CTO title, and not VP of Engineering. If youre trying to design an architecture to maximize agility, how can that work if some people are working in TDD and others not? But since I spent a long time in a hybrid CTO/VP Engineering role, I still have this nagging question.
Startup Lessons Learned
DECEMBER 7, 2008
In a few cases, they are clearly smart people in a bad situation, and Ive written about their pain in The product managers lament and The engineering managers lament. As a last disclaimer, please consult the definition of the word hacker if youre not familiar with the controversies surrounding that term.) Hire a CTO or VP Engineering.
blog.expensify.com
APRIL 24, 2012
You can measure this yourself: go to any list of startups, maybe look at YCombinator’s recent graduate class , or Scoble’s list of picks for 2010 , or Sequoia’s list of seed companies — or go find a list you like better. It’s also missing the point of engineering anything. How about ABAPer? Elaine Kenny.
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