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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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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

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Still, if you’re a business leader and your developers haven’t asked you these questions, look for a Fractional CTO to help navigate the critical early stage of development. Ads, Viral/Social, SEO)? For example, you might want to offer a discount to a given group to provide incentive. Do you support discounts?

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Early Snapchat employee debuts Yoni Circle, a social storytelling app for womxn

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Drimal, has now launched her own social app, Yoni Circle. Drimal came up with the idea for a social storytelling app, in part, because she saw the potential when working on the Snapchat “Our Stories” product. An early Snapchat employee who once architected the “Our Stories” product, Chloe?

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Former Uber CTO Thuan Pham joins South Korean e-commerce leader Coupang

TechCrunch

Coupang , the country’s largest e-commerce company by market share, announced today it has hired Pham as its new CTO. ” After leaving, Pham intended to spend his time teaching university students and mentoring entrepreneurs instead of joining another large tech company.

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CIOs in transition: 5 tips for landing your next IT leadership job

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Build your network continuously Joe Puglisi, former CIO and now investor, advisor, and board member, leads a weekly call for the Society of Information Management (SIM) Members in Transition program. Contribute posts, comment on others’ posts, join groups, and answer questions on LinkedIn and other social media platforms.

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8 data strategy mistakes to avoid

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Organizations often get services and applications up and running without having put stewardship in place,” says Marc Johnson, CISO and senior advisor at Impact Advisors, a healthcare management consulting firm. Overlooking these data resources is a big mistake.

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How the ‘diversity hire’ accusation and other barriers remain for Black women in tech

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And despite 360,000 ethnic minorities working in IT across the UK, minority groups were twice as likely as their white counterparts to work in non-permanent positions, far more likely to be unemployed, and less likely to hear about jobs from word-of-mouth. Jessie Auguste, software engineer at Cybsafe.

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