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Lead Developer to CTO at a Startup

SoCal CTO

I received a great question via LinkedIn: I'm the founding engineer and working hard to launch my startup. I seem to encounter a lot of people who want to attach a CTO label to me as I'm the only programmer on the founding team of three. I've previously addressed the role of a CTO in early-stages in my post Startup CTO or Developer.

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Reincubate: Blog: Chief Technology Officer job description (for web, start-up or corporate)

www.reincubate.com

Share this: chief technical officer chief technology officer cto interim cto job description start-up startup cto web cto Weve been swapping some thoughts with Daniel Kehoe , a consulting CTO acquaintance of ours from across the pond. Some companies look for a more strategic or a more hands-on CTO.

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Boston Tech Community, Sept 2011

Rob Go

link] – Not a meetup, but a great mentorship program started by serial CTO Sean Lindsay. No cost, not formal strings attached. Higher cost, but great facility. Extension Engine - Software engineering and design. Scaling Companies To Watch (ie: probably hiring). Coworking Spaces and Accelerators.

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Technical Co-Founders Are A Myth

blog.captainrecruiter.com

Two years ago I got the bug to do an online recruiting startup and I began the hunt to find a technical co-founder - a software engineer who works for no cash - to help me build my dream website. You may get a software engineer to start something for you, but they wont stick with the project when it gets difficult.

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Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. Ive attempted to embed the relevant slides below.

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Boston Tech Community – August 2012

Rob Go

link] – Not a meetup, but a great mentorship program started by serial CTO Sean Lindsay. No cost, not formal strings attached. Higher cost, but great facility. Extension Engine - Software engineering and design. Scaling Companies To Watch (ie: probably hiring). Now doing 2 classes each year!

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Startup Lessons for the Proto-Founder

www.metamorphblog.com

Experienced, talented software engineers have lots of options in life, and most of them involve getting paid. Thus, the opportunity cost of joining your half-baked venture is dramatically lower than it is for legit professionals. I went to the Columbia Engineering Career Fair in October 2009 and left with ~150 resumes.

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