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Startup CTO or Developer

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What does it mean to be a CTO for a startup? Should a startup CTO spend their time programming? The role of a CTO varies as the company matures. Here’s a graphic from Socal CTO that illustrates the roles as they change over time: In its earliest days, a startup’s top need is often to produce a product. It might be.

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Coaching IT pros for leadership roles

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I spoke to IT executives and leadership coaches for tips on how to develop the leaders on your team. Start coaching You can teach someone to code, manage money, and complete the tasks of being a manager. But the transition from teacher to coach can be challenging. “I I switched from teaching to coaching,” he says. “I

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How Trainline’s CTO stays on track with professional development

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Few would swap sunny San Francisco and the innovation of Silicon Valley for a train ticketing company serving disgruntled UK commuters, but try telling that to Trainline CTO, Milena Nikolic. Nothing clicked until she spoke to Trainline, the international digital rail and coach technology platform, headquartered in London.

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How FiveStars re-engineered its data engineering stack

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Matt Doka, CTO of FiveStars, a marketing platform for small businesses, doesn’t like that trade-off and goes out of his way to outsource whatever he can. They struggled to get new data insights developed into analyses,” he says. This saves a ton of mental load for data engineers and data analysts,” he says.

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7 IT leadership hacks that deliver results

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Fail fast is a frequent maxim in business, but what about reverse engineering that concept? We sought technology leaders who could advise on succeeding fast, along with creating a strong organization, developing team leaders, leveraging the support of peers, and specifically how to streamline day-to-day management of a technology group.

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Using complementary intelligence types to build stellar startup teams

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Alan Clayton Contributor Share on Twitter Alan Clayton is a global roaming mentor at SOSV, executive coach, and a licensed consultant with the Herrmann Institute since 1997. With HBDI, we have an actual tool to identify and develop it, which scores attitudes from 0-150 for each quadrant. But that’s not the full story either.

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The best way to grow your tech career? Treat it like an app

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As CTO, Raj Yavatkar is responsible for charting Juniper Networks ' technology strategy through the execution of the company’s innovations and products for intelligent self-driving networks, security, mobile edge cloud, network virtualization, packet-optical integration and hybrid cloud. Share on Twitter. In 2020, the U.S. had nearly 1.5

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