Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2010

I hope many will read this and have an answer for the question, “what’s the different between a CTO and a VP of Engineering?&#. The CTO / Lead Architect - If you want to build a great technology company, you’ll need a “rockstar&# engineering lead. The VP Engineering aspires to manage teams.

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www.bothsidesofthetable.com

MAY 13, 2012

Want to Know Difference Between a CTO and a VP of Engineering? I hope many will read this and have an answer for the question, “what’s the different between a CTO and a VP of Engineering?” Your deepest thinkers on technology architecture are seldom good team leaders. Raising Venture Capital.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Norris became the VP of Engineering, Engstrom the VP of Research, and Meader VP of Manufacturing. From the first day ERA started with contracts from the Navy OPS-20-G codebreaking group. A contract for a system named O’Malley followed. The professional staff owned the other 50%. How Did ERA Grow So Quickly?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

So I initially gravitated to the CTO title, and not VP of Engineering. If youre trying to design an architecture to maximize agility, how can that work if some people are working in TDD and others not? Thats more than just drawing architecture diagrams, though. I mean, have you seen other people? They might do anything !

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

A Phone Call After I left MIPS Computers I was in New York tagging along with a friend (a computer architect whose products at Apple a decade later would change the shape of personal computing) who was consulting for a voice recognition startup. I’ve convinced the team you’d be perfect, come join us as the VP of Marketing.”

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

He complemented their elegantly designed minicomputers and made some astute comment about their architecture (now I’m rolling my eyes, their computers were dinosaurs) and asked who were the brilliant designers. The Consultative Sale Our sales guy then quietly asked if there was any way we could help them. Help them?!!

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

A CTO will guide your product strategy, market validation, architectural decisions, process optimization, recruiting, and hiring. They will review and negotiate all related contracts. A quick search of linkedin will help you locate a fractional CTO in your area.

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