CIO

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Successful CIOs work hand-in-hand with their C-suite peers to ensure that IT initiatives reflect the company’s ambitions—enhancing operational efficiency, driving innovation, or expanding market presence. Too often, companies adopt innovative technologies based on market hype without fully understanding how they contribute to their business.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2022

So it’s no surprise that in recent years, a flurry of startups have emerged that aim to give more people access to real estate ownership in the form of fractional shares. CEO Yishai Cohen and CTO Amit Assaraf started Landa in 2020 in an effort to make real estate ownership more inclusive. 83North and NFX co-led its seed round.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 26, 2010

I’ve been having discussions with several people recently about the role of the CTO (Chief Technology Officer) in very early stage companies. In December 2007, I described how I commonly take on an Acting CTO Role in a Start-up. That’s why Roger Smith puts the focus of the CTO on programming for the earliest stage.

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CIO

DECEMBER 30, 2024

In 2025, those use cases will see massive adoption, especially if the AI technology is integrated into the software platforms that companies are already using, making it very simple to adopt. The fields of customer service, marketing, and customer development are going to see massive adoption, he says.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 10, 2012

It was like having a bunch of mini- Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions all in one room. This is exactly the kind of thing I'm doing as a Part-Time CTO or Technical Advisor for startups. There are two kinds of advisors that are commonly needed. Strategic Technical Advisor. Tactical Technical Advisor.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Plus, smaller companies want to access high-quality carbon credits, but calculate their impact at a product, services and transactional level, and be able to purchase a fraction of a carbon credit rather than a very inaccurate “scheme.”. There is very little transparency around carbon offsets. It’s now raised a $4.5

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Companies that fail to build their own AI agents will turn to outside AI consulting firms to build custom agents for them, or they will use agents embedded in software from their current vendors, write Forrester analysts Jayesh Chaurasia and Sudha Maheshwari. Kumar adds. Start with one [AI model], and you can start tailoring its behavior.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 13, 2014

A large part of this conversation is what kinds of advisors startups should be looking for. A little while ago, I suggested that Every Web/Mobile Startup Should Have a Technical Advisor. The conversation with Bob was about what the composition of advisors should look like. Connected Advisors? Investors discount this.

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CIO

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Yet unlike his peers, Wiedenbeck’s dual roles — the top technology executive as well as the transformation lead at Ameritas — are often at odds. As chief technology officer, Wiedenbeck is driving automation and IT modernization to reduce complexity and technical debt.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 2, 2013

I've had several Startup CTO Consulting sessions recently where it became apparent that the Founder needed help with the business and product as much or more than the technology. Then we discussed how they could go about finding this startup business advisor. Do you have any suggestions for how to find a good mentor?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

TechCrunch also notes that the company is rolling out a Facebook News product in the French market, so we could see a divergence between feed and news at the company. for Tower Semiconductor : As more capital flows into the market for designing and manufacturing chips, the announcement of new deals isn’t a huge surprise.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

Jerónimo Uribe (CEO), Rodrigo Sánchez-Ríos (president), Tomás Uribe (chief growth officer) and Santiago Garcia (CTO) founded the company after Jerónimo and Tomas met Sánchez-Ríos at Stanford University. Like the US, a two-tier venture capital market is emerging in Latin America. and often at far worse terms. .

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2021

With so much focus on the “creator economy”, and countries hit by the effects of the pandemic, the self-employed market is “booming”, for good or for ill. So Collective hopes to be their online back-office platform. I would have loved something like this when I was getting started.”. 36% of the U.S.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Our startup’s first hire was a fractional Head of Remote. With that in mind, SaaS startup Wingback made a fractional head of remote its first hire, “and it was the best decision we made,” said Yann Leretaille, co-founder and CTO. Our startup’s first hire was a fractional Head of Remote.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 30, 2023

Spill currently employs fewer than 10 people and has three strategic advisors, including former Twitter design chief Dantley Davis, #OscarsSoWhite creator and DEI advocate April Reign and civil rights activist DeRay Mckesson. Historically, studies have shown that tweets written in AAVE (African American vernacular English) were 2.2

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

In the State of Enterprise Architecture 2023 , only 26% of respondents fully agreed that their enterprise architecture practice delivered strategic benefits, including improved agility, innovation opportunities, improved customer experiences, and faster time to market.

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TechEmpower CTO

JULY 24, 2023

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. How will you be taking this to market? Often this ties to marketing support. How can we leverage AI to get our product to market faster?

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Erik Bernhardsson

DECEMBER 6, 2022

I then spent six years as a CTO, although I managed the data team directly for a long time and would occasionally write some data code. I spent a lot of time as a CTO, and if I had to condense how to make engineers productive into one thing, it would be something like: make the feedback loops fast. Most of my career has been in data.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

That also represents a gap in the market: building tools to help those security teams do their jobs. CEO Liran Tancman, who co-founded Rezilion with CTO Shlomi Boutnaru, said that one of those two is one of the world’s biggest software companies, and the other is a major connected device vendor, but he declined to say which.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

CEO Jon Perl tells TechCrunch that the new cash will go toward expanding QA Wolf’s engineering team as well as ongoing sales and marketing efforts. “Knowing that, the market responded by creating lightweight tools that simplify the job or even enable non-technical people to develop test cases.

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CTOvision

JUNE 17, 2015

Cognitio Corp and Indian River Advisors LLC have just announced a strategic alliance. enters into a strategic alliance with Indian River Advisors, LLC. We are pleased to announce that Cognitio has entered into a strategic alliance with Indian River Advisors. The text below is from the joint announcement: Cognitio Corp.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2023

With millions of dollars in funding — and billions of dollars in market potential — flying around, we’re eager to hear our panelists’ take on how a new wave of finance infrastructure startups are reinventing the way financial services are created, distributed and sold. In May 2022, Unit closed a $100 million round with a $1.2

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2023

While the tranche is a fraction of the startup’s previous raise ($70 million), Mythic claims that the tranche will enable it to bring its “next-generation” product — an improved energy-efficient AI processor — to market. He wouldn’t elaborate.

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Erik Bernhardsson

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

I think this was a real benefit for Snowflake, since a lot of their early customers were banks who care about multi-cloud, but more generally it also expands the market size vs the reach of any cloud vendor. Snowflake's projected 8 2022 research and development costs are 20% of revenue, and their sales and marketing costs are 48%!

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TechCrunch

APRIL 10, 2022

One day later, on December 7, it was revealed that CTO Diane Yu was transitioning from her role as Chief Technology Officer – a position she had just assumed in January 2021 – into an advisory position. And former employees admit that the underlying technology the business built is actually good.

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CIO

JULY 1, 2024

When Morgan Stanley announced its new generative AI support tools for financial advisors last week, it talked about gaining efficiencies from its notetaking abilities. Jonathan Murray, the chief strategy officer at marketing firm Mod Op, agreed that the Morgan Stanley AI move has significant analytics potential.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 2, 2012

The problem is you don't yet have product/market fit, and until you do, you don't really know what to build. When I talk with early-stage companies, often the discussion starts with them asking me about Hiring a CTO for Your Startup , or Finding a Technical Cofounder for Your Startup or How to Find Programmers for Your Startup.

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CIO

APRIL 29, 2024

That’s because employees have decidedly mixed feelings about AI coming to their workplaces, according to the recent survey by IT solutions integrator Insight , even as many enterprises are already adopting or experimenting with AI and as AI-enabled phones begin hitting the market. The survey question about AI-enabled devices is timely.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Their views follow: Question: Are any IT jobs in particular jeopardy in light of rapid advances in technology? Thomas Licciardello, CIO consultant, advisory firm NortheastCIOs : “I don’t think we run out and panic because of the AI revolution. Investing in training but, more importantly, coaching is key.

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CIO

AUGUST 6, 2024

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CIO

AUGUST 28, 2023

For example, he took on the CTO role at Rodan + Fields because he “liked the appeal of being part of the product.” Srini Koushik, EVP and CTO, Rackspace Technology Rackspace Technology Koushik credits all his past positions for preparing him for where he is now and the AI role specifically. Second, be intentional.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

We end up using WordPress a lot as the marketing front-end of our web sites. Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers Technology Roles in Startups Want to Know the Difference Between a CTO and a VP Engineering? WordPress is pretty easy to hack. And the back-end is something that a non-technical founder can manage.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 16, 2014

By Bob Gourley Editor’s note: I’m very proud to be serving on the Haystax Technology advisory board. Haystax Technology Names Advisory Board Members. Six Advisors with Defense, Intelligence and Commercial Experience to Deliver Strategic Guidance to Haystax. McLean, VA – January 14, 2014 – Haystax Technology, Inc.

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CIO

MARCH 11, 2025

A large system integrator or consultancy has responded to their digital transformation challenge with a cookie-cutter approach that doesnt fit their individual needs. Its a dynamic that Tata Communications is determined to challenge, as it shakes up the North American market. out of 10) than with global telcos (scoring 7.00).

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CIO

JULY 25, 2024

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TechCrunch

JUNE 11, 2021

This morning, Anna Heim and Alex Wilhelm dug into the EU insurtech market , interviewing European VCs and collating the biggest recent rounds to take the temperature of the waters across the pond: Alex Timm, CEO, Root. What do these 4 IPOs tell us about the state of the market? Dan Preston, CEO, MetroMile. Luca Bocchio, partner, Accel.

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CIO

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Companies taking a multicloud approach can experience ballooning OpEx numbers, says Barrett Schrader, managing director of the technology consulting group at Protiviti: “Organizations can take advantage of volume discounts with reduced complexity. Contractors and vendors should be treated like your car insurance,” says Pratt.

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