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What does a CTO do?

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Product development. Queuing theory and product development. The Essential Product Investigation Phase Gate. So you want to ship the product early? Customer Equity. What does a CTO do? What does a CTO do? What does a CTO (Chief Technology Officer) do in a high-tech company?

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A Tech Company without a CTO is like a Bakery without a Chef

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In order to be a successful tech startup, the team must consist of a Chief Technical Officer (CTO) level member to help with the technology plan. This is generally achieved in one of the following ways: CTO Level Co-Founder (Equity). CTO Level Board Member or dedicated Adviser (Free or Equity).

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A Part-Time CTO - In-House or Outsource?

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A Part-Time CTO Technology. One of the main challenges of starting a products based company is how do you build your product? This is especially true of web based companies, whose product consists of mainly a web site and very little more. Access - Good developers are tough to find. In Plain English.

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8 Tips To Get the Most Out of Your Investors and Board

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But the thing I am most proud of about Rob is that he has taken a company with a uniquely talented founder & CTO – Nick Halstead – and managed to build a very tight working relationship with Nick where we drive world-class product development without having the usual founder / CEO conflicts. Always seek input.

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‘The Future of Everything’: Chicago Booth’s Annual Conference, SeedCon

The Startup Magazine

This year’s speakers include Eric Feng of Kleiner Perkins (former CTO of Flipboard and Founding CTO of Hulu) and Antonio Gracias of Valor Equity (early investor in Tesla and SpaceX), along with panels on AR/VR, Blockchain and the Future of Transport. Investors and Entrepreneurs.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 4

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Investors: Matrix (Dana Stadler, who was the CTO of PayPal). The investment will be used for product development initiatives. 15mm in Series A. Read more: TechCrunch. Blippy is a service that allows you to automatically share your credit card transactions as you make them.

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Top 57 Online Startups Meets Technology Meets Product Posts for November 2010

SoCal CTO

Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. How to Take Down Facebook -- Hint: It Ain't Twitter. It may be that all the doomsayers are right. But I don’t think so.