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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 30, 2008 What does a startup CTO actually do? What does your Chief Technology Officer do all day? Thats an important job, for sure, and Ive been called upon to do it from time to time. So I initially gravitated to the CTO title, and not VP of Engineering.

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HOW TO: Hire the Perfect CTO

mashable.com

Hiring the wrong person for key company positions can cost a business thousands — or tens of thousands — of dollars and man hours. This is especially true when it comes to tech companies hiring the wrong chief technology officer. Nothing can be more damaging than a misleading or careless CTO.

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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.

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Teach 'Em to Tinker

This is going to be BIG.

The other day, I took part in a forum about technology education in Brooklyn. There was a CTO in the room who had a fifty plus person tech team and so I asked him, "How many of your developers learned their trade in the classroom versus being essentially self taught?".

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Open source and software licensing

BeyondVC

It seems that SCO is making another attempt to hurt the open source movement by claiming that the GPL is unconstitutional and violates federal patent and copyright laws. On the panel you had representatives of RedHat, MySQl, and JBoss combined with the perspective of a large IT buyer, the CTO of Goldman Sachs.

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Open source and software licensing

BeyondVC

It seems that SCO is making another attempt to hurt the open source movement by claiming that the GPL is unconstitutional and violates federal patent and copyright laws. On the panel you had representatives of RedHat, MySQl, and JBoss combined with the perspective of a large IT buyer, the CTO of Goldman Sachs.

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Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO

rapidrollout.wordpress.com

Web Startup Lessons Advice from a CTO and Entrepreneur Home About Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO There are not many to be found. Most likely, this is a person who is a serial entrepreneur and was the chief technology officer for two or more web startups. .&#