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Startup CTO or Developer

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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.

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Outsourcing Version 1: Advice from a CTO

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No offense to software contractors, but given the choice I usually prefer to build software with hired employees. By signing on as employees, engineers demonstrate belief in the mission and commitment to the long-term success of the company.

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Improving the USMC’s Legacy Logistics System (GCSS-MC): A Business Opportunity

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SSC LANT has been hired by Marine Corps to make this system faster. This includes modernization of GCSS-MC’s engineering, infrastructure, logistics and program management. CTO Cyber Security DoD and IC Government Organizations Research GCSS-MC Marine Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command SSC LANT' To read more please log in.

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Tech Moves: Ex-Glassdoor CTO will lead Auth0 engineering; Flyhomes hires CRO; and more

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based identify authentication software company Auth0 named former Glassdoor CTO Bhawna Singh as SVP of engineering. She will be responsible for Auth0’s various platforms and oversee the software engineering, data and machine learning teams. He will join AI2 full-time and become an emeritus professor at UW.

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2014 Analyst Forum: Data Analytics and Ancestry.com

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ancestry CTO Scott Sorensen says [link] 's business is all about data and telling stories from that data #DataAnalytics. "Making your data widely available is a great way to recruitand hire data scientists" Via Sorensen, @ancestry CTO #dataanalytics. " Sorensen, @ancestry CTO #dataanalytics.

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Tech Moves: Top Blue Origin engineer joins SpaceX; Axon hires HTC Vive exec; Porch adds to board

GeekWire

Axon maintains a significant engineering presence in Seattle. Former NASA Systems Engineer Nitin Arora is leaving Blue Origin to join SpaceX, according to a post on LinkedIn. Arora spent more than two years at Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin, most recently as part of the team building the space venture’s human landing system.

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Docusign to acquire Lexion for $165M in exit for Seattle-based AI contract management company

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(GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) Docusign announced an agreement to acquire Lexion for $165 million, signaling plans to integrate the Seattle-based company’s AI-powered contract management technology into its Intelligent Agreement Management Platform. Lexion has more than 100 employees, according to LinkedIn.

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