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What is a CTO?

Austin Startup

Even when someone is aware of what a CTO does, they often have limited context due to the wide variety of CTO roles. 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.

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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? But I dont think most startups really have a need for someone to do that on a full time basis. So I initially gravitated to the CTO title, and not VP of Engineering. What does your Chief Technology Officer do all day?

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Lessons Learned: The hacker's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

As a last disclaimer, please consult the definition of the word hacker if youre not familiar with the controversies surrounding that term.) When I want to know about some concurrency issues between services in his cluster, he doesnt blink an eye when I suggest we get the source code and take a look. But life is not easy, either.

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Women 2.0 » FounderDating: How I Found My Co-Founder

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Startup Quote: Wendy Tan White on Building a Successful Startup » FounderDating: How I Found My Co-Founder. My delusions of coding grandeur quickly subsided and realized that I was not going to hack it. I chose a former boss who is very successful and thus credible himself and a colleague from a previous startup.

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

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The right sort of person is so passionate about coding, they can’t be stopped from doing it. But every day spent in that kitchen is a day NOT spent in a real kitchen, learning how to cook real food, and write real code. Two things: If you ever want to work in a startup, avoid.NET. But attitude. It does you no favors.

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