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Startup CTO or Developer

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What does it mean to be a CTO for a startup? Should a startup CTO spend their time programming? Exploring new technologies? The role of a CTO varies as the company matures. A CTO can help you find the right answers. Instead, they should consider a Fractional CTO who can help close the gap. It might be.

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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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Cornerstone OnDemand Names CTO

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Santa Monica-based Corenerstone OnDemand , a developer of software-as-a-service for human resources and talent management, announced today that it has named Mark Goldin as Chief Technology Officer of the firm. Goldin was most recently Chief Operations and Technology Officer at Green Dot Corporation.

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Pitching access management on the fly, Los Angeles-based Britive raises $5.4 million

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LA gets a big SaaS exit as Fastly nabs the Culver City-based Signal Sciences for $775M. For chief executive Artyom Poghosyan and chief technology officer Alex Gudanis, Britive is simply the latest initiative in a decades-long effort to reshape security technology.

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MavenLink Lands $7M For Project Management Tools

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According to Carrick Capital Partners, it co-founder and managing director, Jim Madden, as well as its CTO, Steve Unterberger, will both join Mavenlink''s board as part of the funding. mavenlink venture capital saas software project management cloud collaboration' Mavenlink is led by Ray Grainger. READ MORE>>.

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ServiceNow Snags Former Zynga CTO

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San Diego-based ServiceNow , the provider of enterprise, software-as-a-service products for IT management, has snagged the cloud infrastructure CTO out of Zynga , Allan Leinwand. The move was first uncovered by VentureBeat.

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

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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.