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What is a CTO?

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They will manage the steps necessary to identify, select, and integrate your software and IT vendors, including third party product dependencies, email, network, wiki, intranet, project management, and telecommunications. They will review and negotiate all related contracts. Security needs to be top of mind for any CTO.

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See More than 120 Speakers and Mentors at The Lean Startup Conference

Startup Lessons Learned

He was a very early employee of Facebook , and engineering director there through the moment it blew up. Now he’s VP of engineering at Dropbox , where he’s seeing similar growth. Dan McKinley will show the math he used to test new ideas as an engineer during the early days at Etsy. He’ll bring us real-world advice.

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CTO-as-a-Service in Crucial Stages to Success

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The expertise of administrators and senior-level developers suffices to handle routine technical tasks under the guidance of such company members as VP of Engineering, Team Lead, and Project Manager. While some companies might need a one-time technical consulting, others are looking for ways to have CaaS on a long-term basis.

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Take 5 minutes to help other Austin entrepreneurs and vote in the SXSW Panel Picker!

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If you’re not familiar with these software tools this is a valuable event to attend so that you can learn more about tools that designers on your team are using to help make high fidelity prototypes. Cultivating Conditions For Inclusion What is a Fractional Executive (CTO, CMO, CFO)? Fractional executives can help you get there.

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Just Make It Faster

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We were working on a logistics project with a management consulting firm for one of the largest retail companies in the world. The folks from the management consulting firm did all the design and analysis; we wrote the code to work with the massive databases that supported this. One of our software engineers wrote all the code.

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

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Overlooked Features in your MVP | Developer Track Scott White , VP of Engineering at HUVRdata , had great advice for developers with an MVP (minimum viable product) that are alpha/beta testing with real users. Instead of stressing about frazzled customers, use that passion to reflect on your work and continue modifying and improving.

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Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO

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Web Startup Lessons Advice from a CTO and Entrepreneur Home About Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO There are not many to be found. He or she might call himself a “consulting CTO,&# “freelance CTO,&# “on-demand CTO,&# “CTO on call,&# “CTO for hire,&# or just a “technology strategy advisor.&#