SoCal CTO

APRIL 2, 2013

What's Going to Go Wrong A lot of founders don't really understand Lean Startup principles. Don't be fooled by a Common Misunderstanding in Agile Software Development. They look at the following high level definition of Lean: and they interpret that as write up an executive summary with your ideas and hand it to developers to build.

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

This is especially true when it comes to tech companies hiring the wrong chief technology officer. Today, CTOs are multi-taskers that aren’t just coders locked in some basement — they play a vital role in a tech company’s strategic plan and growth. Zach Cutler , The Cutler Group.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 29, 2020

This start-up is headed by industry-leading professionals including its CEO and co-founder, Ido Susan, and Hillel Kobrinsky the CSO and co-founder. Intezer.com is headed by Itai Tevet, the CEO, Roy Halevi the CTO, and Alon Cohen Executive Chairman and Founding Investor. Namogoo.com. oz-code.com.

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www.bothsidesofthetable.com

MAY 13, 2012

Want to Know Difference Between a CTO and a VP of Engineering? Because more technology people probably read startup blogs I’m guessing this post will come under more scrutiny. Still, I believe I’m offering an accurate representation of the ideal configuration of the main technology leaders. Raising Venture Capital.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 30, 2019

In 2013, I left a CTO job overseeing a 50-person product engineering team for the same job at a four-person startup. Upon arrival, I incorporated a few elements from my previous stop into this new endeavor, including a battle-tested Agile Scrum process and the corresponding technology.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 6, 2013

. + 1,000 startup founders, investors, and press! Vinod Khosla Founder Dave McClure Founding Partner Eric Ries Author Steve Blank Serial Entrepreneur & Professor Todd Park CTO Travis Kalanick CEO & Co-Founder Joe Zadeh Director of Product Sam Shank Co-Founder & CEO NEW!

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 2, 2020

As a result, entrepreneurs, founders, CEOs, marketers, and anyone in between can take advantage. Artem is a serial entrepreneur as he co-founded and acted as CTO of two companies (200 labs & Gipis) between 2011 and 2020 before founding Chatfuel in early 2020. The point of no-code tools is to empower non-engineers to create.

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Isaac Cambron is co-founder and CTO of Zensight.co , whose pre-launch product enables sales reps to find and use their best content to close more deals. Below, he answers questions about developing products from scratch, as well as the difficult technology choices and tradeoffs CTOs must make.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 7, 2013

The picture to the left is of Ryan Martens, Rally’s founder and CTO, giving Josie Health, the CEO of The Community Foundation Serving Boulder County , a check for $676,000. Ryan started Rally (formerly F4) out of our previous office and could regularly be found scribbling all over a white board.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 28, 2015

I can’t remember if Ryan used the word Agile at that time, but I remember scribbles on a white board that listed out all the different software that Ryan had used at BEA to manage his dev team and how maddening it was to try to integrate information in Word, Excel, Project, a dev workbench, a set of testing tools, and the support / QA system.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2017

With industries from banking to transportation being transformed and, in some instances, undermined by new business models and technology, executives are smart to wonder, “Are we next?” To confidently answer no, co-founder of Strategyzer Alex Osterwalder told our attendees, “What you really want to do is work more like Amazon. …

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 26, 2012

I've done four Free CTO Consulting Sessions in the past month with startup founders who all had run into variations of the same problem. Investors and early customers were becoming worried about the ability of the founder to deliver. Investors and early customers were becoming worried about the ability of the founder to deliver.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

But the thing I am most proud of about Rob is that he has taken a company with a uniquely talented founder & CTO – Nick Halstead – and managed to build a very tight working relationship with Nick where we drive world-class product development without having the usual founder / CEO conflicts. The Agile Board.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 4, 2012

If you are in Boulder, are a CTO, are into changing the way email works, and are looking for a hot young TechStars company to join, take a look at OkDidIt. They are looking to add a CTO to their team to augment one of the technical founders (who is the CEO) – the job description is up at Careers 2.0.

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Steve Blank

JULY 7, 2015

Jon Sebastiani , founder and CEO of KRAVE Jerky , a company that got its start in my class at Berkeley back in 2011 and was recently acquired by Hershey. He later co-founded and served as CTO of IMVU and then authored The Lean Startup. Listen to my entire chat with Eric: If you can’t hear the interview, click here. Taking My Class.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 25, 2011

It may be hard to remember that there was a time when people in the agile software development community thought Lean Startup was incompatible with agile practices. But along with Intuit founder Scott Cook, Brad is a leader that recognizes that entrepreneurship is critical to his company’s success.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

I did a presentation this week at Coloft that looked at how Non-Technical Founders can go about getting their MVP built. And the back-end is something that a non-technical founder can manage. Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers Technology Roles in Startups Want to Know the Difference Between a CTO and a VP Engineering?

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

(Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. While an undergraduate at Yale Unviersity, he co-founded Catalyst Recruiting. Your "startup-lessons-learned" are very valuable.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 30, 2015

No new business is worth starting in these times unless it can go global.” – Sir Richard Branson, founder, Virgin Group. Its executives sit in San Francisco, its CTO is based in the Dominican Republic, and its development team is in Belgrade. They might look more like Vast.com, a big data solutions provider for homebuyers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. So far, I have found "lean startup" works better with the entrepreneurs Ive talked to than "agile startup" or even "extreme startup.") Of course, many startups are capital efficient and generally frugal.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 11, 2017

By Kevin Sproles, founder and CEO of Austin’s Volusion “The best companies are deliberate about culture. The co-founder of Hubspot hit it on the head with this quote. When we were left to our own devices in that conference room, our CTO and I wrote down our goals, our aspirations, our fears, and everything in between.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

We wanted an agile approach that would allow us to build our software architecture as we needed it, without downtime, but also without large amounts of up-front cost. You can also download our presentation, " Just-In-Time Scalability: Agile Methods to Support Massive Growth." Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

By learning to be rapidly responsive and agile. Eric Ries: The Principles of a Lean Startup Sep 27 2011 - 6:30pm The Principles of a Lean Startup Eric Ries , Author, The Lean Startup In conversation with Dave McClure , Founder, 500 Startups Starting one, working for one, going public with one – startups seem to be the thing to do in SF.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 9, 2013

Do not fall into the trap of Startups and a Common Misunderstanding in Agile Software Development. They didn''t ask you some of the questions in: 32 Questions Developers Should Ask a Startup Founder. Are they asking good questions? You should be getting an estimate for the work effort before you get started. They will give you a quote.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

In addition to presenting the IMVU case, we tried for the first time to do an overview of a software engineering methodology that integrates practices from agile software development with Steves method of Customer Development. Ive attempted to embed the relevant slides below. What about a hardware business with some long-lead-time components?

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 28, 2014

I guess it should not be a surprise that Founders have lots of challenges working with developers. Challenges I started by asking the founders in the room to tell me some of the challenges they have working with developers. Developers (and Founders) are challenged to know how much is okay in terms of bugs.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 8, 2013

Following is a guest post on DevOps by Gene Kim , Multiple Award-Winning CTO, Researcher, Visible Ops Co-Author, Entrepreneur & Founder of Tripwire. This quote came from Patrick Lightbody, the CEO and founder of BrowserMob. He wrote it a while ago and it has sat in my draft queue waiting for the perfect moment to emerge.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Based in Rotterdam, Netherlands, DashTag will show off its own stats at 12:30 pm Sunday, March 11, along with the other finalists in Sports and Performance Data Technology , at the Hilton Austin, Salon AB. Answering questions on behalf of the Dashtag is Dirk van den Berg , the CMO and co-founder of this startup. We’ve got students!

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Web Startup Lessons Advice from a CTO and Entrepreneur Home About Finding a Technical Partner for Your Startup Today I received an inquiry from a student at an Ivy League university who wants to launch a web startup. Ultimately, the project can founder on the “core incompetencies&# you both bring to the partnership.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, September 10, 2008 Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your code right now Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your code right now A great checklist of techniques and tools for making your development more agile, written from a Rail perspective. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

Hire a CTO or VP Engineering. A really good technology executive can notice problems like the ones Im talking about today and address them proactively. The trick is to hire a good one - I wrote a little about this in What does a startup CTO actually do? I would love to have an effective CTO or VP of Engineering to manage me.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 24, 2014

Think of Werner Vogels (CTO of Amazon), Guido van Rossem (founder of Python programming language and senior engineer at Dropbox) or the more senior Gerard Kleisterlee (chairman of Vodafone). Our socially progressive attitude has helped shape the most creative and agile playing of the global game.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

Deputy Chief Technology Officers Cori Zarek and Ryan Panchadsaram to help all levels of government with COVID-19 response and delivery of services. Jen is the founder and former executive director of Code for America. She has been an advocate for a more responsive, a more resilient, more agile government.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 22, 2009

Each has its own iterative process: customer development and agile development respectively. Some startups fail because the founders cant have this conversation - they either blow up when they try, or they fail to change because they are afraid of conflict. As the CTO/VP Engineering, I was the worst offender. Expo SF (May.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 29, 2020

by Douglas Ferguson, founder of Voltage Control and author of “ Beyond The Prototype: A roadmap for navigating the fuzzy area between ideas and outcomes “ At a startup, while you are just starting to define practices and company culture , I would recommend adopting an optional meeting policy like we practice at Voltage Control.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2010

Andy Mathieson, a founder and managing member at Fairview Capital , was particularly supportive. “Everybody felt the burden of supporting all those transactions every day,&# says Pascal-Louis Perez, kaChing’s CTO. Andy Mathieson, a founder and managing member at Fairview Capital , was particularly supportive.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Labels: agile , listening to customers 3comments: hauteroute said. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. Split-test experiments that go on forever? Great points Eric.

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