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Startup CTO or Developer

TechEmpower - Product Management

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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11 Key SaaS Roles and Responsibilities in 2023

Userpilot

Chief Technical Officer The CTO is 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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Blaise Transit, A Bain Public Client, Says 'No Problem' Heading Into 2023!

Bain Public

They monopolized the summer & fall to double down on their client efforts, market strategy and planning for new features for the next set of cities they targeted in 2023. We’ve helped provide them with the product leadership consulting, coaching, advice and support they need to bring their entire technical roadmap to the next level.

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Insights from the CDH Benchmark Survey: How Are Teams Adopting Discovery Habits?

Product Talk

In my experience coaching teams, it seems like either the team picks their outcome (with little to no input from leadership) or leadership picks the outcome (with little to no input from the team). Other common responses included the product manager, the sales team, the CTO (again, one of the options), and Directors of Product or Engineering.

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Women in Tech – Female CxOs Share their Challenges in Tech Startups – with Melissa Kwan, Alice de Courcy, Maja Voje, Laura Erdem & others

Userpilot

Sometimes – a lot less: While in 2023 women in CEO roles earned “only” $14,000 less than men on average, in 2020 the gap was over $45,000 (nearly a third -31% – less!). Maybe because it’s harder for them. And yet – even when they work harder – they get paid less. Sima Banijamali – Sr.

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The Subscription Value Loop: A framework for growing consumer subscription businesses

Lenny Rachitsky

He is now a full-time growth advisor and angel investor who helps consumer subscription companies build their growth models, develop their growth strategies, hire and scale their growth teams, and achieve their full potential. A massive thank-you to Phil for doing the work to put a piece like this together. You know who you are!

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Crafty CTO - Untitled Article

Crafty CTO

ChatGPT Code Review I’m working with a fractional CTO client to launch a significant update of their web + mobile platform. June 3, 2023 # The mobile app needs to support offline mapping, and our dev team has fighting through some problems there. The conversation spanned over 46 pages and 10,000 words. ” A big win.