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Fractional CTO Services Explained

Valerian Tech

The role of a Fractional Chief Technology Officer (CTO) is to provide technical expertise and leadership to a company on a part-time or temporary basis. This can be a useful option for startups or small businesses that may not have the resources to hire a full-time CTO or may not need one on a permanent basis.

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2021 in conversation: Learnings from the podcast

Intercom, Inc.

Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. Government services shouldn’t be renowned for their endless queues, confusing forms, and excessive bureaucracy. Speed is every startup’s biggest competitive advantage. Zanade Mann , founder of Black Women’s Business Collective.

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9 Books Every Entrepreneur Should Read

Tom Tunguz

Some of the best content to be found about startups is locked in books. Instead I’ve written a blog post about the nine favorite books I’ve read over the last five years have helped me understand startups and the processes that make them successful. and building a startup.

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Whose Company Is It Anyway? Differences between Founders and Hired CEOs

OPEXEngine

Startup CEOs generally fall into one of two categories and the category is likely to predict how they will approach the ownership issue. While virtually all hired CEOs have been large-tech CXOs or GMs, not all large-tech CXOs or GMs are wired to be successful as CEOs in the more frenetic world of startups. Never surprise the boss.

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PODCAST 126: How to Book a Meeting with Nearly Anyone in the World with Jeff Winters

Sales Hacker

Today on the show, we’ve got Jeff Winters, the founder and CEO of Sapper Consulting, one of the top 10 people in the world who can get a dream meeting — a meeting with virtually anybody in the world. Who is Jeff Winters and what is Sapper Consulting? [02:00]. How Sapper Consulting built REGIE [07:20. We’re on iTunes.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Bernadette Nixon, Jay Snyder, Nick Mehta, Loren Padelford, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

And I think for CSMs that are watching you do have to plot a course to having value either in the product knowledge or domain knowledge or being consultative or whatever. When you don’t necessarily have a startup there. You don’t need to have this 12 month engagement with some consulting firm and all this work.