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HOW TO: Hire the Perfect CTO

mashable.com

Hiring the wrong person for key company positions can cost a business thousands — or tens of thousands — of dollars and man hours. This is especially true when it comes to tech companies hiring the wrong chief technology officer. Nothing can be more damaging than a misleading or careless CTO.

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Are You Putting Your Rock Star Customers To Work?

YoungUpstarts

If you can harness the knowledge, natural enthusiasm, and peer influence of your very best customers — I call them “Rock Star” customers — they’ll market, sell, and help develop breakthrough products for your firm better than your internal resources can do, and often at a fraction of the cost. But it does require some new thinking.

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Capital Innovators Graduates First Class of Entrepreneurs

ReadWriteStart

They also signed Global eTelecom as a customer, one of U.S.' Anthony Favazza, CEO of DiningCircle has hired a CTO that will be overseeing a rebuild of our product in early 2012. "We Our customer base pipeline is growing as we're in the process of closing several contracts. largest check processors at the end of December.

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Five case studies you'll see at the Lean Startup Conference 2015

Startup Lessons Learned

With hundred of thousands of global practitioners, the supply of ideas and best practices is endless. Prerna began her startup journey after leaving a job as a management consultant, and launched Yaari, a youth-oriented social network in India. She wants to disrupt Hollywood with the Lean Startup method.

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Technology Roles in Startups

SoCal CTO

Background This post partly really came about as a result of a great conversation yesterday with David Croslin a former CTO at HP who recently conducted an interesting experiment. I am looking for one or two startups that I can work with on their road to success as a virtual C-level officer, board member, advisor or other relationship.

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FinTech Innovation Lab Launch Event – June 2, 2011

David Teten

My rough notes follow: Mike Dubno , CIO, Global Markets and Research Technology & Operations, Bank of America. Previously CTO, Goldman Sachs. Panel: Cary Davis , Managing Director, Warburg Pincus, Moderator: Ben Fried, Chief Information Officer, Google, runs in-house technology. Introductory remarks.

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What are the Technical Performance Requirements for your Startup?

SoCal CTO

I find myself sending it to startup founders all the time – maybe just slightly less than Free Startup CTO Consulting. Web Application such as Web Mail or a gated Social network. You will be looking at aspects like: Time to first byte (TTFB) vs. Load time API calls Global delivery? There may be lots of pages.