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Why Online Video Just Took One More Big Step to Legitimacy

Both Sides of the Table

Our industry just took one big step towards legitimacy with the hiring of renowned media exec Ynon Kreiz to run Maker Studios. This followed an investment late last year by Time Warner in the company in a round totaling $36 million , led by Rachel Lam , head of their investment group. Distribution costs have, too.

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How To Fix Obamacare

Feld Thoughts

Hire Harper Reed as CTO of Healthcare.gov, give him the ball and 100% of the budget, and let him run with it. But put one person – a CTO – in charge. And let them hire a team – using all the budget for individual hires, not government contractors or consulting firms. It’s 2013.

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International Student Success in Tech – A CTO’s Journey

The Startup Magazine

When International Technological University’s CTO Kranthi Lammatha was a boy in the Indian farming village of Kasipuram, he would walk nine miles to get to school every day and another nine miles to get back home in the evening. In 2013, ITU funded Kranthi’s proposal for what is now known as the Education Management System (EMS).

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Lessons from a year’s worth of hiring data

blog.alinelerner.com

Lessons from a year’s worth of hiring data. Jun 21, 2013. Because I used to be an engineer, one part of my job was conducting first-round technical interviews, and between January 2012 and January 2013, I interviewed roughly 300 people for our back-end/full-stack engineer position. Why any of this matters.

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How to Go From Google Engineer to First-Time CTO

firstround.com

How to Go From Google Engineer to First-Time CTO. How to Go From Google Engineer to First-Time CTO. Date: September 4, 2013. Today, he’s the co-founder and CTO of Artillery , bringing console-quality gaming to the web browser. Date: September 4, 2013. Product and Engineering.

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30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

VC Cafe

Chen Zamir is the company’s CTO and former Intelligence officer in the IDF as well as Paypal risk manager. Nexar recently hired deep learning heavyweight Professor Trevor Darrell from UC Berkeley as Nexar’s Chief Scientist. The timeframe for a fully functional product varies between 14 and 45 days.

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Reset: When should you rewrite your mobile app?

The Next Web

Nicholas Clark is the CTO of DoubleDutch , the company that creates social event apps for trade shows and conferences. In September of 2013, Apple released iOS 7 and hinted that legacy SDK support would soon be dropped. This complexity also slows ramp time of new hires, increases configuration errors, and introduces bugs.

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