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Startup CTO or Developer

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What does it mean to be a CTO for a startup? What does the role demand? Should a startup CTO spend their time programming? Exploring new technologies? Increasing competitive advantage? The answer is: it depends. The role of a CTO varies as the company matures. Getting something to market and getting funding override any other concerns. It might be.

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Four Questions to Manage Your Value Stream

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They don’t know how to begin because there are multiple places to start; further more choosing the wrong starting location or worse, derailing, can start or set the entire business off course. This enables the third way (see The DevOps Handbook for a much better explanation than I can provide).

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