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What is a CTO?

Austin Startup

They adopt, measure, and manage key product performance metrics. A CTO is in the business of scale, for whatever an organization has as its core metrics. They will review and negotiate all related contracts. A quick search of linkedin will help you locate a fractional CTO in your area.

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See More than 120 Speakers and Mentors at The Lean Startup Conference

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He’ll talk about making a profit and making a difference in a conversation with New Media Ventures’ Christie George. Ben Horowitz ’s book The Hard Thing About Hard Things is driving the conversation around startup management this year. Now he’s VP of engineering at Dropbox , where he’s seeing similar growth.

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Take 5 minutes to help other Austin entrepreneurs and vote in the SXSW Panel Picker!

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Considerations include: transparent qualifications for career progression, increase employee mobility, recognize and reward measurable contributions to diversity health, and highlight hiring gaps with simple questions like, “What are the diversity metrics for incoming candidates?” Fractional executives can help you get there.

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Women 2.0 » FounderDating: How I Found My Co-Founder

www.women2.org

I attended engineering-focused Meetups and networking events. Just like the low conversion rate from going to bars (unless it’s for that one night interaction), this is the same for finding a co-founder. Every conversation that I had was very high quality. In Conversation. One of them became my co-founder. Debriefing.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

Do a curl (or your.NET equivalent) on each domain, and see how many are running a Windows server: I think you’ll find the fraction very small. I am the VP of Engineering at a cutting-edge startup that sells software built on the.NET platform. Nothing says contraction negotiation like the smell of cordite.

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