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When Should a Small Business Hire an Executive Team?

Up and Running

Chief financial officer (CFO): As the name implies, the CFO is responsible for major financial tasks. Chief technology officer (CTO): This executive ensures technology initiatives are running smoothly and supporting overall business goals. This goes hand in hand with retention.

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Reincubate: Blog: Chief Technology Officer job description (for web, start-up or corporate)

www.reincubate.com

Email us or call +44 (0) 844 3579899 home about services blog labs Chief Technology Officer job description (for web, start-up or corporate) « Upgraded your iPhone to OS 3 but files are missing? Some companies look for a more strategic or a more hands-on CTO. Firstly, theres no one-size-fits-all description.

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Are You Putting Your Rock Star Customers To Work?

YoungUpstarts

If you can harness the knowledge, natural enthusiasm, and peer influence of your very best customers — I call them “Rock Star” customers — they’ll market, sell, and help develop breakthrough products for your firm better than your internal resources can do, and often at a fraction of the cost.

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Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

is an elegant way to model any service-oriented business: Acquisition Activation Retention Referral Revenue We used a very similar scheme at IMVU, although we werent lucky enough to have started with this framework, and so had to derive a lot of it ourselves via trial and error. The AARRR model (hence pirates, get it?)

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Capital Innovators Graduates First Class of Entrepreneurs

ReadWriteStart

Anthony Favazza, CEO of DiningCircle has hired a CTO that will be overseeing a rebuild of our product in early 2012. "We Our customer base pipeline is growing as we're in the process of closing several contracts. Since joining the program, he has seen an increase in ad sales and also received new investment capital.

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Open source and software licensing

BeyondVC

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. The interesting point was served up by Michael Dubno, CTO of Goldman Sachs. While I will not fill you in on all of the gory details, one thread did stand out in my mind.

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Open source and software licensing

BeyondVC

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. The interesting point was served up by Michael Dubno, CTO of Goldman Sachs. While I will not fill you in on all of the gory details, one thread did stand out in my mind.