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Y Oslo 2024: When It Comes to Discovery, Something is Better Than Nothing

Product Talk

I remember working at a startup where we were striving to get to nightly builds so that we could ship software every day. I hate definition wars. This definition is a mouthful, so I like to visualize it. Over the last 20 years, we’ve seen a lot of evolution in these practices. I think that was in 2004.

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10 Successful Founders On Outsourcing Product Development

Arkenea

When we launched Zomato (then FoodieBay), I ended up putting together a basic version of the product, and we hired a student from IIT as an intern (Gunjan, now our CTO), to work on the first version of the product. To my mind, a tech startup should try to avoid outsourcing the first version of their product.

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AI Engineer World's Fair 2025: My Day 1 Highlights

Crafty CTO

State of Startups and AI 2025 Speaker: Sarah Guo ( Conviction ) – Session video Sarah wins the “best save” award when AV fails, leaving her with no slides … she still pulls off a great presentation, and doesn’t even run over. I mean, there’s definitely a low double digit written entirely by Codex.

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383: Working better with your CTO for innovation – with Steve Orrin

Product Innovation Educators

Today we are talking about senior roles that contribute to innovation, specifically the role of CTO (Chief Technology Officer). Joining us is Steve Orrin, CTO at Intel. 1:52] What’s your role like as Federal Chief Technology Officer (CTO)?

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Best Countries To Outsource Software Development: Why India Reigns

Arkenea

However, when comparing all potential destinations, one country consistently emerges as the definitive leader: India. As John Reynolds, CTO of a San Francisco-based fintech startup, noted: “ Arkenea’s team in India is more responsive and communicative than some local vendors we’ve worked with.

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Road to Product Consensus

The Product Guy

While startups need to move fast, getting everyone on board with the decisions that are being made is crucial to actually execute fast. That was when I started doing product work more closely with my team, my team lead and the CTO. I would then work with the CTO to incorporate their suggestions and improvements.

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They Don’t Understand Your Role as a Product Leader. But Do You?

The Product Coalition

Whenever I talk to startup CEOs, especially first-timers, the discussion on product goes immediately to UX and wireframes. In the evolution of a startup, the founders initially do whatever they can themselves. Thinking and talking about the product definitely falls under this category. But what is product definition exactly?