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Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers

SoCal CTO

I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. Did they really need a Startup CTO or Developer or both? And do I fit as a Part-Time CTO , Technology Advisor , CTO Founder , Acting CTO ? He needed some kind of CTO and as well Developers.

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Storm in the stratosphere: how the cloud will be reshuffled

Erik Bernhardsson

I spent six years as a CTO and moving from one cloud to another isn't something I even remotely considered. Putting precious eng time on a cloud migration isn't worth it unless cloud spend starts to become a significant fraction of your gross margins. I'm not so sure? Which is true for some companies!

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Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

SoCal CTO

500 Hats , February 1, 2010 When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication? 500 Hats , February 1, 2010 When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication? First Principles.

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14 essential book recommendations by and for IT leaders

CIO

For grasping artificial intelligence Sherry Comes, former CTO at IBM Watson and current managing director of conversational AI at PwC, thinks you need to read Age of Invisible Machines: A Practical Guide to Creating a Hyperautomated Ecosystem of Intelligent Digital Workers (Wiley, 2022) by Robb Wilson. CTO and co-founder of Digibee.

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Document Your MVP for a Developer

SoCal CTO

I asked some of the same questions I ask in my Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions and then I get to a very common conversation: Me : Do you have specs? This should be an iterative process with advisors and customers providing feedback on the product. Conversations with a technical advisors or possible developers should be iterative.

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Leaving Spotify

Erik Bernhardsson

Figuring out the cable situation (2009). Oskar Stål , the CTO of Spotify and a great mentor, would always tell me that I have to decide between machine learning and the “CTO ladder” at some point. I will share more details soon. Hopefully this time will be an opportunity to apply all those things I learned at Spotify.

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Leaving Spotify

Erik Bernhardsson

Figuring out the cable situation (2009). Oskar Stål , the CTO of Spotify and a great mentor, would always tell me that I have to decide between machine learning and the “CTO ladder” at some point. I will share more details soon. Hopefully this time will be an opportunity to apply all those things I learned at Spotify.

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