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Lessons Learned: About the author

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He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and in 2009 he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership. While an undergraduate at Yale Unviersity, he co-founded Catalyst Recruiting.

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

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So what does CTO mean, besides just "technical founder who really cant manage anyone?" Labels: product development 15comments: mukund said. My answer to that was to be part of the team whose whole is better that its individual parts as its mentioned in the article, a team leadership rather that a point leadership.

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Seth Godin: How often should you publish?

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The leadership art is to balance the needs of the present with the needs of the future. Too often, startup founders talk about how they are pushing to get to “critical mass&# and how “economies of scale&# are going to kick in. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Lessons Learned on Mashable today

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Here in Tampa, our biggest challenge is convincing the regions technology "leadership" that grassroots economic development is a good thing. That fostering and encourage entrepreneurs to bring companies and products to market is a great source of innovation, job creation, etc. January 2, 2009 11:54 AM Daniel Davie said.

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Lessons Learned: Please teach kids programming, Mr. President

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We also learned that law is code , and that leadership was needed to build thriving communities in a digital age. Then you set up a web app to co-ordinate volunteers who can wipe a hard drive and install Ubuntu. You can find out more at: manning.com/sande Many thanks in advance, Todd -- Todd Green Manning Publications Co.

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Fall speaking tour starts tomorrow

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Expo NYC , immediately followed by an event or two in Boston - details to be announced. The Thought Leadership talks are awesome. ► 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.

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Lessons Learned: Where did Silicon Valley come from?

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Its an academic treatise that tries to answer a seemingly straightforward question: after World War II, why did Silicon Valley become the undisputed leader of the technology world, while Bostons Route 128 corridor did not. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Amazon PostRank