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What is a CTO?

Austin Startup

They will manage the steps necessary to identify, select, and integrate your software and IT vendors, including third party product dependencies, email, network, wiki, intranet, project management, and telecommunications. They will review and negotiate all related contracts. Security needs to be top of mind for any CTO.

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

Startup Lessons Learned

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!

Austin Startup

If you’re not familiar with these software tools this is a valuable event to attend so that you can learn more about tools that designers on your team are using to help make high fidelity prototypes. Cultivating Conditions For Inclusion What is a Fractional Executive (CTO, CMO, CFO)? Fractional executives can help you get there.

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9 Austin Startup Week Sessions at Capital Factory That Blew Us Away

Austin Startup

Overlooked Features in your MVP | Developer Track Scott White , VP of Engineering at HUVRdata , had great advice for developers with an MVP (minimum viable product) that are alpha/beta testing with real users. Instead of stressing about frazzled customers, use that passion to reflect on your work and continue modifying and improving.

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Ardent 1: Supercomputers Get Personal

Steve Blank

A Phone Call After I left MIPS Computers I was in New York tagging along with a friend (a computer architect whose products at Apple a decade later would change the shape of personal computing) who was consulting for a voice recognition startup. I’ve convinced the team you’d be perfect, come join us as the VP of Marketing.”

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Convergent Technologies: War Story 1 – Selling with Sports Scores.

Steve Blank

Business customers were starting to ask for “office automation solutions” – word processing, spreadsheets, graphing software on a desktop. The Customer is a Genius Then instead of talking about our products he segued the conversation into their products. I had just watched a master of the consultative sale. Help them?!!

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The Future of Web Startups

www.paulgraham.com

We think of the techniques were developing for dealing with large numbers of startups as like software. Sometimes it literally is software, like. They buy a lot of startups— more than most people realize, because they only announce a fraction of them. In essense, let the market design the product. Well have to.

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