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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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Just Make It Faster

Feld Thoughts

I’ve been thinking about this since I first started writing code (APL) when I was 12 (ahem – 33 years ago) on a computer in the basement of a Frito-Lay data center in Dallas. It reminded me of a client situation from my first company, Feld Technologies. One of our software engineers wrote all the code.

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9 Austin Startup Week Sessions at Capital Factory That Blew Us Away

Austin Startup

You found someone that really cares about something,” says Pete Kooman , CTO at Optimizely. Overlooked Features in your MVP | Developer Track Scott White , VP of Engineering at HUVRdata , had great advice for developers with an MVP (minimum viable product) that are alpha/beta testing with real users. Couldn’t make it this year?

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

Do a curl (or your.NET equivalent) on each domain, and see how many are running a Windows server: I think you’ll find the fraction very small. I am the VP of Engineering at a cutting-edge startup that sells software built on the.NET platform. Nothing says contraction negotiation like the smell of cordite.

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