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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? What does your Chief Technology Officer do all day? So what does CTO mean, besides just "technical founder who really cant manage anyone?" So I initially gravitated to the CTO title, and not VP of Engineering.

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Presidential Innovation Fellows, round two

Startup Lessons Learned

RFP-EZ and Innovative Contracting Tools Making it easier for the government to do business with small, high-growth tech companies, and enabling the government to buy better, lower-cost tech solutions from the full range of American businesses. design, build, operate/use, maintain, and service). ProjectMyUSA on Twitter.

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: athenahealth

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and Todd Park, a pair of Booz Allen consultants, as a physician practice management company for obstetrics. See chart below: The reach the organization has achieved is impressive, but still only a fraction of the market opportunity. in reference to a slow roll-out at a hospital]. It's a contract for life. Life, Anthony.

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Product Launches: 5 Unexpected Lessons from the Real World

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Amazon’s Chief Technology Officer, Werner Vogels, summarizes the purpose of the press release: “Writing a press release up front clarifies how the world will see the product – not just how we think about it internally.”. Nichole Elizabeth DeMeré , a B2B SaaS consultant, lamented that.

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Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?

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Developer, engineer, CTO, or technical co-founder? Creative, innovative, or dreamy (not so sure about the last one), green 'get started' button or orange? You don't need a self-designated 10x imbe. Or going to design classes. Rockstar v. "Very few web sites or other start-ups will have the same impact."

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

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Had I known it was going to take the internet by storm I probably would have been a bit more careful with my word choice (especially referring to.NET as a language, doh!). 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. Alcides Fonseca.

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