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What is a CTO?

Austin Startup

As a CTO, I can definitely say without a doubt that few people understand what a CTO does. When I tell someone I’m a CTO, I’m often met with a blank stare. Even when someone is aware of what a CTO does, they often have limited context due to the wide variety of CTO roles.

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Integrating Active Directory With Your SaaS Tool Stack

ConversionXL

Onboarding goes beyond hiring new employees. Furthmore, you can take advantage of Connect iPaaS to eliminate the need to manually create and update identities in Active Directory—assuming the new hire record has been created or updated in ADManager Plus ( ADP ). Continued management of those assets often feels like a full time job.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #10: The most proven way to hire well

Austin Startup

It is all about how you hire the best and the amazing impact doing so will have on your culture. We were obsessive about that, and it paid huge dividends later on. You must test those that you want to hire. I didn’t know better at the time and they were much older and “experienced” than I was, so I let them run with that plan.

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Lessons Learned: The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time

Startup Lessons Learned

Thats when this approach can pay huge dividends. In fact, Ive seen this approach work so well that it would be considered weird and kind of silly for anyone to ship a new feature without subjecting it to a split-test. Reports Lets start with the reporting side of the equation.

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Webinar Recap: 14 Tips on How to Pitch and Get Funded

Up and Running

Of course you could set up dividends and all that that kind of stuff as well so they make their money, but you want to know what is your exit strategy? When I was at a pharmaceutical company before I became an entrepreneur, when I first got hired, I thought, okay I was in the IT department. Don’t be afraid to make an ask.

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The Power of “In Person” – Why Distributed Teams are Less Effective

Both Sides of the Table

CEO, VP Products and CTO must all be in the physical location. This is a topic that comes up often in Los Angeles because many CEOs are tempted to hire their tech teams in the Bay Area. I prefer the first sales hires to be in the home office. Here are my personal biases: 1. If they’re not I won’t fund.