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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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10 lessons from Syte on building an inside sales machine to survive the crisis [guest post]

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By Lihi Pinto-Fryman, co-founder and CRO and Gal Aga, VP of Sales at Syte.ai , a visual search startup and Remagine Ventures portfolio company. In the beginning, the founders gave demos all day. Product and customer support shared insights from development and existing customers. Do you plan to land and expand?

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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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The Steve Jobs method

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For startups that are tempted to mimic this behavior, I suggest reading the great account of the early Apple in Founders at Work.) Also SJ's obsession with better taste (positively) contributes to the overall product development process. Regardless, they must cull a lot of bad ideas for every one that we hear about.

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Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business)

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I want to especially recognize Vivek Wadhwa and Brad Feld for their leadership.) One last suggestion, which is a technique I learned from my IMVU co-founder Will Harvey. I want to especially recognize Vivek Wadhwa and Brad Feld for their leadership.) This is a good thing. (I We have a lot of introspection to do.