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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. Hiring the wrong person for key company positions can cost a business thousands — or tens of thousands — of dollars and man hours. Sign in with Facebook or Twitter to get started!

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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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Lessons Learned: Great open source scalability tools from Danga

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, September 5, 2008 Great open source scalability tools from Danga If you are trying to build a scalable LAMP service, its always best to start with the original and still quite relevant presentation, from Brad Fitzpatrick when he was at LiveJournal. You can find the 2005 version here. Expo SF (May.

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SXSW Startups: Horizon

Austin Startup

A finalist in Entertainment and Content , which will pitch at 3:30 pm Sunday, March 10, Horizon makes blockchain-powered video games for dreamers, futurists, and digital citizens. Beyond SkyWeaver, people are interested in using ERC-1155 for loans, side-chains and applications requiring users to deposit their tokens in a contract.

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F2F Still Matters

SoCal CTO

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Friday, March 16, 2007 F2F Still Matters Kathy Sierra has a great post today: Face-to-Face Trumps Twitter, Blogs, Podcasts, Video. and she provides this picture: It shows that while we slowly approach real-time, realistic virtual conversations, it still isnt quite the same thing as being there.

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Product-Led Growth (PLG) For Startups

Mucker Lab

Obviously if you target enterprise customers, you usually have a very large ACV (Annual Contract Value) and the product usually is complex. We talk about using the product complexity, your target customer size, your contract value, and whether there's individual use case–those four things--to help you decide if PLG is a fit.

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30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

VC Cafe

DeepMind beating the world’s best at Go and AI beating pro-poker players consistently, represent much more than a computer getting good at playing video games: The gaming world offers a perfect place to start machine intelligence work (e.g., Logz.io (2014) – Logz.io