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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower - Product Management

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. Email / SMS Does your application send out transactional emails or SMS messages? How are those mass messages crafted? Send messages?

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11 Key SaaS Roles and Responsibilities in 2023

Userpilot

Chief Technical Officer : Responsible for outlining the company’s technological vision, implementing technology strategies, and ensuring that the technological resources are aligned with the company’s business needs. Much of the success here depends on how competent and motivated the CTO and their team is.

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Why CEOs Should Not Be Our Primary Source of Customer Input

Mironov Consulting

A not-yet-generating-repeatable-revenue company of 6 people might have one architect/CTO, one designer, three other developers, and a CEO. A CMO/VP Marketing with strong messaging and promotional chops can spend full time getting the world interested in us. Investments in interview skills coaching, data analytics, activity tracking?

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2021 in conversation: Learnings from the podcast

Intercom, Inc.

Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. “It is about the people, and vision and purpose and work, in that order. I’m like, “No, no, I believe in this company and the vision and the mission and what we’re doing, and it’s a company that invests in people.”

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10 Years of Balsamiq: What I’ve Learned | Peldi Guilizzoni, Balsamiq | BoS USA 2018

Business of Software Conference

And you know what they say as well – at some point the CEO has to step back and take a strategic role so they have time to do visioning and look at the market and not be involved in the day to day of the operation. And then I realized that there was a lot I needed to coach. That’s the proper answer. Loneliness.

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Behind Every Great Product

svpg

There are three main reasons for this: First, even though I personally spend a good deal of my time writing and coaching and teaching about product management, there’s little question that there remains considerable confusion about this role. Now, more than a decade later, I’d like to revisit this topic.

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The Emergence

Crafty CTO

If you’re the CEO and not deeply technical, having a CTO or fractional CTO that can understand emerging AI and then translate that raw material into “most potentially impactful for us” is a great option, and can flow smoothly to the next point. Stay up on what’s emerging. They won’t argue with you.