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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 30, 2008 What does a startup CTO actually do? Often times, it seems like people are thinking its synonymous with "that guy who gets paid to sit in the corner and think technical deep thoughts" or "that guy who gets to swoop in a rearrange my project at the last minute on a whim."

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How to Create a Marketing Playbook for Consistent Campaigns

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Where your product or service fits into the market. Think about your playbook from the perspective of a new hire. Your products or services, pricing, and details of owners and managers. The goal of including personas in your marketing playbook is to help them relate to realistic prospects who are likely to buy your product.

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How I Found a Great CTO

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We sell the winning designs to customers in the form of personalized wedding invitations, Christmas cards , and other stationery and photo card products. Ive occasionally worked with executive recruiters, for example in hiring a CTO for my first company, Eve.com. This time, I decided to handle the process myself.

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GTK’s and Pillsbury’s Internet of Things Executive Event - 2015 Edition

Growthink Blog

The ability to measure outputs, in real time, allows for fractionalized delivery of traditional industrial services - like as mentioned by Splunk CTO Snehal Antani - the rental and leasing forklifts not by a period of time (i.e. hour, day, year) but instead by the amount of lift of weight lifted and moved. The result?

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Innovation and Geography

SoCal CTO

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, February 20, 2007 Innovation and Geography I ran across a post in Read/Write Web - Does Location Matter in Web Innovation? that talked about a recent NY Times article When It Comes to Innovation, Geography Is Destiny. eHarmongy) as an acting CTO.

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Lessons Learned: The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time

Startup Lessons Learned

In my experience, the majority of changes we made to products have no effect at all on customer behavior. This kind of result is typical when you ship a redesign of some part of your product. Without split-testing, your product tends to get prettier over time. First of all, why split-test?

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24 Entrepreneurs Share Their Favorite Inspirational Business Quote

Hearpreneur

8 – You cant change the world working part time. You can’t change the world working part time. Thank you to Gene Caballero, Your Green Pal ! #9 This quote is from Oleg Vishnepolsky the global CTO at DailyMail Online and Metro.co.uk. It says it all right there. Image Credit: Gene Caballero.