Austin Startup
SEPTEMBER 18, 2017
As a CTO, I can definitely say without a doubt that few people understand what a CTO does. When I tell someone I’m a CTO, I’m often met with a blank stare. Even when someone is aware of what a CTO does, they often have limited context due to the wide variety of CTO roles.
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 5, 2010
The conversations bleed into the sales messages the next time, they wend their way into software designs and form the plan of attach against competition. CEO, VP Products and CTO must all be in the physical location. I prefer the first sales hires to be in the home office. Here are my personal biases: 1.
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Austin Startup
DECEMBER 16, 2018
It is all about how you hire the best and the amazing impact doing so will have on your culture. We were obsessive about that, and it paid huge dividends later on. You must test those that you want to hire. I didn’t know better at the time and they were much older and “experienced” than I was, so I let them run with that plan.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 15, 2008
Thats when this approach can pay huge dividends. You need to make sure you dont get away from trying bold new things, using some combination of your vision and in-depth customer conversations to come up with the next idea to try. Reports Lets start with the reporting side of the equation.
Up and Running
MARCH 11, 2015
Content marketing, and under content marketing we’re tracking uniques, time on site, bounce rates, open rates, click-through rates, conversion rates, these are the things that if we don’t know what these things are, we could end up in trouble. It was interesting to me, so we had this whole conversation about the type of people.
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