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

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Putting the band back together, ExactTarget execs reunite to launch MetaCX

TechCrunch LA

The former President of ExactTarget and later chief executive of Salesforce Marketing Cloud has made billions of dollars building products to help support customer service and now he’s back at it again with his latest venture MetaCX.

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As a Google Partner with Fresh Capital, Zesty.io Aims to Disrupt CMS

Xconomy

After establishing a partnership with the Google Cloud Platform, Zesty.io The three-year-old company already provides its content management system on a software-as-a-service basis (SaaS) for such customers as Sony, Acorns.com, and Rocket League, said Widmer, who took over as CEO from Zesty.io founder Randy Apuzzo at the end of 2017.

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When Should Technical Founders Become CEO?

Both Sides of the Table

So Nick drove strategy & tech from the UK and remained an active board member and CTO of the company. And of course we have dozens of other data sources making us a much broader platform than Twitter data. Luckily for us Nick was extremely mature and believed it would be in the best interest of the company.

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How Kaleo Is Tackling Enterprise Knowledge Sharing

socalTECH

That can be a subject matter expert, product head, a sales head, any category in the enterprise, and they can use our lightweight platform for answers. In B-to-B marketing, it ends up that there were people at GE Capital doing the same jobs at GE Healthcare. I organically built the company, and didn't have any outside venture money.

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Interview: Thorsten von Eicken of RightScale

InfoChachkie

Messenger : Thorsten von Eicken , RightScale’s Co-Founder and CTO, Chief Architect at Citrix Online (formerly Expertcity) and Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University and UC Santa Barbara. That led us to venture capital as opposed to trying to bootstrap ourselves. free weekly Infochachkie articles!

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Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010

SoCal CTO

Some great content around the intersection of startups and being a Startup CTO in June this year. This continues my series of posts: Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010 Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March The following are the top items based on social signals. Here’s why.

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