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Startup 360-Performance Review Result – Improved Time Management - Finding Founder Time

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I quantified the relative priority of this responsibility as follows: Desire 12 least desirable for CTO to perform. A = Product Strategy. D = Overseeing Product/Feature Stories. C = Product Coding. For instance, in the above charts, task F represents “Manage Backend Finance System.” Competency.

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Interview with Michael Dubin, Dollar Shave Club

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The company also made quite an impression with its viral video --which you have to watch to appreciate--of CEO Michael Dubin extolling the virtues of the company's products, and panning overpriced, expensive razor brands. If you look on our site, the Humble Twin is the first inventory we had. That's the one we'll mass product.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

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Another called Parker Harris, the co-founder and CTO. There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. We started building the product 18 months ago so we are in better shape than 99% of start-ups. Free product. I wasn’t feeling it. Folksonomy.

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Interview: Thorsten von Eicken of RightScale

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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. If you haven’t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for. free weekly Infochachkie articles! Copyright © 2007-11 by J.

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On Leadership, Teams, Success & Happiness

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Some investors are team focused, others market focused, others seems to look for product / market fit. Only then can I even care about product, market or their nebulous “fit.&#. I want somebody who can inspire you to produce great products but not know your trade better than you do. I love the design of your product.

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