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What is a CTO?

Austin Startup

As a CTO, I can definitely say without a doubt that few people understand what a CTO does. When I tell someone I’m a CTO, I’m often met with a blank stare. Even when someone is aware of what a CTO does, they often have limited context due to the wide variety of CTO roles.

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9 Austin Startup Week Sessions at Capital Factory That Blew Us Away

Austin Startup

Other trends you should keep on your radar include developing kid-friendly robots, scaling STEM learning statewide, and applying design-thinking within schools. You found someone that really cares about something,” says Pete Kooman , CTO at Optimizely. No, but at least we’re talking about it.” Couldn’t make it this year?

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What is Sweat Equity Worth?

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Foregone wages for an engineer aren't the same as foregone wages for a prototype designer. How should you decide if your prototype designer should be a co-founder who deserves 50 percent of your company or deserves $30,000 in sweat equity for her work as an employee or consultant? More Video » Entrepreneur Events.

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Just Make It Faster

Feld Thoughts

I’ve been thinking about this since I first started writing code (APL) when I was 12 (ahem – 33 years ago) on a computer in the basement of a Frito-Lay data center in Dallas. It reminded me of a client situation from my first company, Feld Technologies. One of our software engineers wrote all the code.

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Tech Diversity & Inclusion Allies at SXSW

Austin Startup

She hosts technical and networking events for developers and designers in Austin and also facilitate partnerships with local tech companies. Joe enthusiastically led Perot Jain’s support for Capital Factory’s Dallas $100,000 Diversity & Inclusion Investment Challenge.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

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Do a curl (or your.NET equivalent) on each domain, and see how many are running a Windows server: I think you’ll find the fraction very small. Because.NET is designed to extend, not disrupt. NET is designed to tightly integrate with and seamlessly extend the Microsoft stack in extremely powerful but ultimately incremental ways.

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