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Startup CTO or Developer

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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. That’s why Roger Smith puts the focus of the CTO on programming for the earliest stage.

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Time Rich, Time Poor and Apple

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skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, March 20, 2007 Time Rich, Time Poor and Apple Jeremy Liew at Lightspeed Venture Partners has an interesting post: Time Rich or Time Poor? I would agree that Apples product design would suggest that it aims at Time Poor buyers. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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Kareo: Bringing The Power Of the Cloud to Small Medical Practices

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Dan Rodrigues: Kareo deliver cloud-based software for small medical practices, which we define as a medical practice of fiver or fewer physicians. Most of the solutions in our market are for lots of doctors, and are on-premise solutions, and are really designed for bigger physician groups and hospitals.

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Entrepreneurship: Nature vs. Nurture? A Religious Debate

Both Sides of the Table

At the margin you can make yourself better at sales, product design, marketing, leadership, capital raising, etc. You’re not born into being a world-class software developer. So going into a startup scenario you bring these innate skills or you don’t. so it’s not pointless to want to improve.

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Twiistup 007: Final Showoff's Additional Speakers and TZ Discount

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He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. Although Catalyst folded with the dot-com crash, Ries continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com, leading efforts in agile software development and user-generated content. . Bambi Francisco.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 5.0 – I’m just going to chill out for a bit… (OK, for a month…)

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► August (3) Venture Capital - What's the rush? the Rubicon Project (Internet Advertising Technology) Status: Pre-Launch Visit the Rubicon Project Website Startup 5.0: StrongMail Systems (Digital Messsaging Infrastructure Software) Status: VC-backed (Sequoia Capital, Globespan and Evercore) Lesson: Trust your gut. .

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