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What is a CTO?

Austin Startup

If outward facing, they will attend important sales calls and speak to the technology strategy and vision. They adopt, measure, and manage key product performance metrics. A CTO is in the business of scale, for whatever an organization has as its core metrics. They will review and negotiate all related contracts.

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

Startup Lessons Learned

Ben Horowitz ’s book The Hard Thing About Hard Things is driving the conversation around startup management this year. Bob Sutton is a Stanford professor and the author of several best-selling books on standout management, including Scaling Up Excellence , an investigation of high-growth companies. Eric Ries will interview him.

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Lessons Learned: The hacker's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

In a few cases, they are clearly smart people in a bad situation, and Ive written about their pain in The product managers lament and The engineering managers lament. As a last disclaimer, please consult the definition of the word hacker if youre not familiar with the controversies surrounding that term.)

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

www.women2.org

It’s the same process as sales and dating, and I know how to do both, well, at least sales… So, how hard can this be? Opportunity Management: Now that I had a few people of interest, the courtship began. She has consulted for a number of startups in the mobile, Saas, and consumer health spaces. Global Womens Journey.

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

blog.expensify.com

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. And.NET’s languages (C#, IronPython, managed C++, etc.) I am the VP of Engineering at a cutting-edge startup that sells software built on the.NET platform. Like what?!

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