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Startup CTO or Developer

SoCal CTO

I’ve been having discussions with several people recently about the role of the CTO (Chief Technology Officer) in very early stage companies. In December 2007, I described how I commonly take on an Acting CTO Role in a Start-up. I used an image from Roger Smith that describes the varying roles of a CTO as the company matures.

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Lead Developer to CTO at a Startup

SoCal CTO

I seem to encounter a lot of people who want to attach a CTO label to me as I'm the only programmer on the founding team of three. While I do fill that role at the moment, I'm a little hesitant to refer to myself as a CTO as we still haven't launched a product, acquired a single user, or turned or a penny in profit. Accounting?

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Advice for CTO Founders: Don't Let Business Kill the Business

SoCal Delicious

Main February 23, 2010 Advice for CTO Founders: Dont Let Business Kill the Business Founding a technology company is an amazing thing. I have met dozens of brilliant technologists with fantastic ideas, ideas requiring nurturing, mentoring and support. Vaultive « Are Derivatives the Real Problem?

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Eight Startup Tips From Mark Zuckerberg

InfoChachkie

1) Get A Mentor. "I Given Facebook's numerous corporate governance mistakes during its early days, Mark would have been well served to have cultivated a mentorship with one or more savvy Advisors. Develop a solution for a problem, market and/or user group about which you are passionate. " [Tweet this quote].

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Understanding the Power of Your Human Networks

Both Sides of the Table

And I spoke with the CTO of another great company I used to be on the board of and enlisted his support in potentially being an advisor to one company. Let’s say your a junior developer, marketer, product manager, biz dev person at a startup or well-established technology company. ” You simply need to ask.

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Interview with Alex Benzer, SocialEngine

socalTECH

If you're like many people, you're having more and more public conversations, but there is no tool out there similar to Gmail which a lot of people use to organize their whole life. We have some great mentors now. It's actually uncommon to have a female CTO. It's a unified inbox for all of your online conversations.

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Learn How to Kiteboard Online. MentorMob Launches Free Social Online Learning Guides

Tech Zulu Event

MentorMob finds the best free learning content and organizes it into comprehensive MentorMob learning Guides including Kiteboarding, Parenting , Wedding Planning and Entrepreneurship with more continuing to roll out on the regular. How does it work? Each Guide contains a series of playlists that cover beginner to advanced topical knowledge.

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