www.informationarbitrage.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Main February 23, 2010 Advice for CTO Founders: Dont Let Business Kill the Business Founding a technology company is an amazing thing. Too often, however, I have found CTO / Founders paired with business people who not only don't add value, but frequently detract from the value of the business.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 22, 2007 Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups Ive been participating in a Yahoo Group that are users of LinkedIn and who are Bloggers: [link] Its an interesting group of folks from diverse backgrounds. However, it definitely has served as a hub.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 23, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Friday, February 23, 2007 Events and Networking in Los Angeles One of the issues I discussed in Innovation and Geography was that the geography and traffic in Los Angeles generally makes it more difficult for networking. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Examples of this are well-known, and (in my definition) include any product that causes new customers to sign up as a necessary side-effect of existing customers normal usage: Facebook, Myspace, AIM/ICQ, Hotmail, Paypal. Beware the new hire who has "extensive experience" in startups or big companies - using a different growth driver.

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BeyondVC

SEPTEMBER 5, 2007

The first time I heard the term Red Shift was from my portfolio company, Greenplum. Greenplum has used red shift to characterize the nature of the existing database market where exponential data growth driven by network computing and internet applications have outstripped the capacity of existing mainstream vendors.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 28, 2014

If your developers have a better machine, screen, internet connection, or chair at home than they do in the office, then there’s a problem. I.e., they need a developer more than they need a CTO. Ideally, you would have had a technical advisor, had better up-front definition, had more iteration, then you would not be in this situation.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

I havent had to work this model under those conditions, so I cant say anything definitive. It seems many startups these days are under a lot of pressure to outsource their development organization to save costs. I do have faith that, whatever situation you find yourself in, you can always find ways to increase the speed of iteration.

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

This isn’t because technical people are flakier or inherently less entrepreneurial; it’s because by definition they have a narrower set of highly in-demand skills. We’ve had some really good feedback so far, and I’m in a position where I can definitely answer the question posed by Dankhan below.

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www.geekwire.com

JULY 10, 2012

Get the education you need at the definitive Tech M&A conference, July 18. The company is hiring 300 employees in 2012, particularly software engineers with talent in key areas such as interactive analytics, mobile applications, internet scale distributed systems, high performance graphics, user experience and human oriented design.

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

An Internet entrepreneur needs a website. Eventually I was able to scrape up a few bucks and hired Sarah to build me a website prototype. Eventually Ill hire a software geek of my own, but right now Im doing just fine without one. Also hire offshore devs to assist you in building your product. Most definitely.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 19, 2017

by Steve Owens, Founder and CTO of Finish Line Product Development Services. Many argue that since their goal is to become a large company, they might as well hire the team early – because they will be needed down the road. If there is a possibility of a Pivot, the person you just hired may not be the right person after the Pivot.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

I mean, 85% of millennials, for example, are now on a smartphone, and we’ve seen internet access grown around the world. He’d spend all of his money that he raised on an hour’s worth of internet access. It’s part of the product.” So it definitely has that aspect. They answer a question.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Great content again in September that meets at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. 8220; His three things (worth reading his whole post anyway) are set vision/strategy and communicate broadly, recruit/hire/retain top talent, and make sure there’s enough cash in the bank. It’s great advice.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

As a last disclaimer, please consult the definition of the word hacker if youre not familiar with the controversies surrounding that term.) And we cant hire new engineers any faster, because you cant be interviewing and debugging and fixing all at the same time! Hire a CTO or VP Engineering. Just change it.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 14, 2017

He started Stackify to solve the biggest challenge he had as the CTO of VinSolutions, so Matt, thanks for joining me. I was that hired gun in some senses. It’s definitely, it’s the hardest part. This was definitely been different as being the CEO of a company and being the founder. Matt Watson: Yeah.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Inevitably, the excuses begin: I need to hire people to build the product. I can’t tell you how frequently teams of three business school students tell me they’re going to start the next great consumer Internet company. Like I said, forget everything else and just get your product out the door. I don’t know any developers.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Chen Zamir is the company’s CTO and former Intelligence officer in the IDF as well as Paypal risk manager. Innoviz Technologies (2016)- High Definition Solid State LiDAR (HD-SSL), enables smart and advanced 3D remote sensing for fully autonomous vehicles, while significantly reducing both cost and size.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Developer, engineer, CTO, or technical co-founder? It is definitely written in a condescending manner. But you definitely need more than a beginner. Tristan Kromer • Nov 8, 2010 It'd be a tough A/B test to analyze because everyone knows ninjas can play the guitar: [link] com/pic. Rockstar v.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Update: The end is near, Expensify is hiring a.NET programmer! As you might know, we’re hiring the best programmers in the world. But it will definitely raise questions during the phone screen, for reasons that are best explained by simile: Programming with.NET is like cooking in a McDonalds kitchen. Expensify Blog.

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Up and Running

MAY 13, 2015

You get really distracted by some wonderful things you’re researching on the internet. Guys, we all, as time managers and as time ninjas, we have to be really clear that as busy as we are, our time is our most precious resource. I bill out at somewhere near 200 an hour most of the time. Be very careful.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

This is definitely a weak area of most pitches and business plans that I see. Maybe you have a quick question about a pitch, you can surely shoot that over to me, and that’s what’s great about the internet today. I was interviewed before and asked, “What is the definition of an entrepreneur?” Think about your successes.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Derek Sivers about me blog books email list contact How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen 2010-06-19 Do you have an idea for a website, online business, or application, but need a programmer to turn that idea into reality? Say, “We are hiring a developer to create only the beginning of an application. Hire one from each.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2020

He also said, “The most important hire I made in my time at the JAIC was the chief technology officer, Nand Mulchandani.” In this class session Nand Mulchandani, JAIC CTO who just completed an extended stint as Acting Director, continued the discussion of AI and the role of the JAIC. That doesn’t mean anything. Postscript.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

At IMVU, when wed hire a new engineer, we could get them to ship code to production on their first day, even if they had never programmed in PHP before. Which makes them exactly the kind of programmers companies should want to hire. In my role as a CTO, Ive always tried to choose the right tool for the right job.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

So, was the 80s, and I was able to break out of it because I was very interested in mathematics, and to everyone's surprise, ended up winning the silver medal in the International Math Olympiads, which was one of the first time somebody from the Eastern part of Turkey had really participated and won a medal. EB : It is very simple.

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