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Startup CTO or Developer

TechEmpower CTO

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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Coaching your IT team for change: 9 tips

CIO

If your team pushes back, digs in, or fights whenever you present them with a change, it isn’t solely because they are a change-resistant crew, though. There’s always change,” says Jim Moore, CTO at HR Acuity. “A Paulo Gardini Miguel, director of technology at The CTO Club, agrees. A healthy team is used to it.

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Technical Advisors: Every Web/Mobile Startup Must Have One

SoCal CTO

I did a presentation recently for a graduate class from The Founder Institute around getting online/mobile products out the door. I LOVED it because, the presenting part was over quickly and we got into specific issues that the founders had in terms of getting things built. There are two kinds of advisors that are commonly needed.

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What Startup Advisors Do I Need?

SoCal CTO

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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Startup Mentors

SoCal CTO

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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Beyond the hype: 4 use cases that show what’s actually working with gen AI

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Registered investment advisors, for example, have to jump over a few hurdles when deploying new technologies. The tools are used to extract information from large documents, to help create presentations, and to summarize lengthy reports and compared documents to find discrepancies. We have a ton of documents we can talk about.

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The new calling of CIOs: Be the moral arbiter of change

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The group includes the CTO, the VP of technology, and business leaders from other functions, including finance and HR. To get my AI project over the line, I went to the committee four or five times with amended presentations. He drafted the AI policy, presented it to the board, and other partners reviewed the approach.