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Introducing Crafty CTO

Crafty CTO

I’ve learned so much … most importantly, I think, that I love being a fractional CTO, a role that allows me to make use of everything I’ve learned and experienced over a long technology-focused career. Today I’m turning the page – but not on what I do: my focus is still all-in on helping businesses as their fractional CTO. What’s changing, rather, is the entity I’m delivering through – a new company called Crafty CTO.

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The Final, Awesome SaaStr Annual Speakers: CTO Stripe. Chairman HubSpot. SVP Eng at Slack. Chief Growth New Relic. And More!!

SaaStr

The final speakers and sessions are: David Singleton, CTO of Stripe. Manav Khurana, Chief Growth Officer @ New Relic sharing how to really scale. The post The Final, Awesome SaaStr Annual Speakers: CTO Stripe. Chief Growth New Relic. So that’s it for content!

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Infinicept Appoints Anne-Jeanette LeBell as CTO

Infinicept

New Role Extends Infinicept’s Leadership in Embedded Payments and Drives Advancements in Embedded Finance DENVER – February 9, 2023 – Infinicept, a leading provider of embedded payments, today announced that it has appointed Anne-Jeanette LeBell as the company’s Chief Technology Officer.

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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 includes identifying new technologies and innovations that can help the company achieve its goals and stay competitive.

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Your Team's Pragmatic Guide to Security

Speaker: Naresh Soni, CTO, Tsunami XR

The pandemic has led to new data vulnerabilities, and therefore new cybersecurity threats. As technology leaders, it's time to rethink some of your product security strategies. Whether you need to rework your security architecture, improve performance, and/or deal with new threats, this webinar has you covered.

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Top 10 Learnings Architecting a High-Throughput Critical API With RevenueCat Co-Founder & CTO Miguel Carranza (Pod 564 + Video)

SaaStr

Miguel Carranza, CTO at RevenueCat, shares ten learnings from firsthand experience in architecting an API & SDK that is currently on 5,000+ apps and has seen 3x growth Year-over-Year. . Instead, the CTO suggests that you avoid adding new pieces of infrastructure until absolutely necessary.

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Why Your Company Needs a Fractional CTO

Valerian Tech

There are many benefits to hiring a fractional CTO, also known as a part-time or interim CTO. A fractional CTO can bring a wealth of knowledge and experience to your organization without the added expense of a full-time executive.

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Product-Led Growth: Panacea or Boondoggle? with AgentSync Co-Founder & CTO Jenn Knight and OpenPhone Co-Founder Daryna Kulya (Pod 538 + Video)

SaaStr

Jenn Knight, Co-founder and CTO of AgentSync, and Daryna Kulya, Co-founder of OpenPhone, discuss how different approaches have helped each brand reach its target audience and accomplish its goals, the potential of product-led growth, and how to scale growth strategies to yield desirable results.

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“What Do You Mean They Quit?!” Don’t Give Your Engineers a Reason to Leave with Notion’s Head of Engineering: Michael Manapat, Change.org’s CTO: Elaine Zhou, and Plato’s CEO: Quang Hoang (Video)

SaaStr

Co-founder and CEO of Plato, Quong Hoang, the #1 mentoring platform for engineering leaders , helped moderate a discussion between CTO of Change.org, Elaine Zhou, and Head of Engineering at Notion, Michael Manapat, on this subject.

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When is the Right Time to Hire a Fractional CTO?

Valerian Tech

It can be beneficial to hire a fractional CTO (Chief Technology Officer) in a variety of situations. When you don't have an in-house technology leader: If you don't have a CTO or a similar technology leader on your team, a fractional CTO can fill that role.

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Product Transformation: Adapting Your Solutions for Cloud Models

Speaker: Ahmad Jubran, Cloud Product Innovation Consultant

In order to maintain a competitive advantage, CTOs and product managers are shifting their products to the cloud. Many do this by simply replicating their current architectures in the cloud. Those previous architectures, which were optimized for transactional systems, aren't well-suited for the new age of AI. Whether you're a seasoned CTO or an industry trailblazer, this webinar will help make your product ready to meet the competition by adopting an architecture that is optimized for AI innovation. Join Ahmad Jubran, Cloud Product Innovation Consultant, and learn how to adapt your solutions for cloud models the right way.

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30+ Incredible New Speakers for 2021 SaaStr Annual

SaaStr

Brian Peterson, CTO @ Dialpad. Dave Walters, CTO, Hired. Jenn Knight, Co-Founder, CTO, AgentSync. Grab 30% off the best passes here: The post 30+ Incredible New Speakers for 2021 SaaStr Annual appeared first on SaaStr.

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March Madness, AI Style

Crafty CTO

But nearly every day, there’s been something new that’s at least important and sometimes game-changing. Order of magnitude cheaper OpenAI kicked things off on March 1st, when they announced new ChatGPT and Whisper APIs , along with tenfold less expensive pricing.

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New!! Join the SVPE and CTOs of Slack, Okta, Amplitude, Carta, Rippling, Notion and More at Elevate at SaaStr Annual 2022!

SaaStr

CTO at Okta. CTO at Circle. CTO at Carta. CTO & SVPE at Ripping. A sample Elevate session from SaaStr Europa 2022 here: The post New!!

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Why Fractional?

Crafty CTO

Fractional CTO services can be a valuable asset for businesses that want to take advantage of technology to grow and improve their operations, but don’t have the resources or expertise to do so in-house. Access to experienced technology leaders One of the main benefits of fractional CTO services is access to experienced and knowledgeable technology leaders who can provide strategic guidance and support for your business.

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OpenAI unveils GPT-4, a new foundation for ChatGPT

IT World

ChatGPT creator OpenAI announced the new large language model in a blog post, saying it will have better features than its predecessor, GPT-3.5 Word of GPT-4 first leaked last week when Andreas Braun, CTO of Microsoft Germany, let slip that it would be launched this week.

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Venture Funds Arrive in the Mastodon Space

Crafty CTO

The new server will be open to those with paid Medium accounts. I recently had a Mastodon exchange with John Gruber of Daring Fireball (and Markdown ) fame. Gruber had just written a short piece about Medium launching their own Mastodon server – with the fun, short domain name of me.dm.

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45 – Technical leadership (from a past CTO, CEO, Director of Engineering, and Coder), with Cynthia Del’Aria

Natalia Luneva

She is currently on the verge of starting a new FinTech startup which will be her fifth but she has built close to 100 startups for other people over the years. Today I interview Cynthia Del’Aria and we talk about leadership in the SaaS world.

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20 Incredible New Experiences at 2020 SaaStr Annual

SaaStr

But what’s new this year? Let me make a list: New!! But we’re turning this around this year and letting our top-rated practioner speakers do “Masterclasses” on new content teaching you how to scale faster.

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Blog/Website Relaunch: Under the Hood of craftycto.com

Crafty CTO

Back in 2019, I launched ThinkFractional.blog and took advantage of the opportunity to learn a new platform – Ghost. I decided on the same approach this time around – take the opportunity to learn something new, state of the art, and very different. New needs This time around, my requirements were a little broader. Yes, I needed to replatform my blog, but I also needed a web presence for my new fractional CTOing entity.

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Accelerating Crafty's Launch Using AI Models

Crafty CTO

So once I made the decision to move ahead on the launch of Crafty CTO , I wanted to get on with it. Then came the decision to launch Crafty CTO and suddenly I had a burning need for art, starting with a logo. Since Midjourney or ChatGPT do most of the heavy lifting, my cognitive load is lightened and I retain the mental reserves needed to do the difficult – start something new, finish something, or work outside my comfort zone.

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Alarmed About AI?

Crafty CTO

John Gruber chimed in shortly after with a nice follow up, “ Bing, the Most Exciting Product in Tech ,” that calls out further commentary by New York Times columnist Kevin Roose.) Alarm over AI isn’t something new.

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The Insane Acceleration in LLM AIs

Crafty CTO

I’ve been trying to write on this topic for a week or more, but almost every day, there’s a new “this changes everything” moment. A critical new GPT-4 capability, in preview now, is an 8X increase in the size of its prompt.

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Is Seed the new Series A? (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Since 2010 we’ve seen more startups, funds, and capital than ever before, but with this drastic increase, investors are seeing unexpected new trends reshaping the future of the industry. Join this panel of investors from Connect Ventures, Blossom Capital, Dawn Capital, The Family, and Indico Partners as they provide an overview of the current investment landscape, and discuss whether the seed stage is emerging as the new Series A. Is there an old playbook and the new playbook?

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Your Monday Morning Pick-Me-Up: New SaaStr Annual 2020 Speakers!

SaaStr

Well, we did the heavy lifting and highlighted a few here for you… Marianna Tessel, Intuit CTO + Cathy Polinsky, Stitch Fix CTO + Robin Ducot, Survey Monkey CTO. We’re especially excited about this all-star, CTO panel from three publicly traded companies. Marianna Tessel is the CTO of Intuit, Robin Ducot is the CTO of SurveyMonkey and Cathy Plinsky is the CTO of Stitch Fix. Trick or treat?

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New feature: Custom charts

Chart Mogul

Sergei Anikin, CTO, Pipedrive. After you’ve saved your chart, you’ll see it added to a new section of your Charts sidebar called Custom charts. Related posts: New visualizations – bar charts, stacked charts & more! New Feature: Stay Focused on Your Goals With Targets. Segment, save, share. Our newest feature makes it easy to create and save custom charts that the entire team can access.

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Shape Up Your Agile

Crafty CTO

My friends at the Chicago CTO Group are very smart people, and everyone I’ve spent time with is practicing some form of agile effectively. The Basecamp guys have been busy lately.

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Building with Shape Up

Crafty CTO

The identified slice needs to be small enough to execute in a few days, and if possible, something novel, new to us. When new tasks come up, you know where to put them.

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a16z Pod: How the Passion Economy Is Redefining Work

Andreessen Horowitz

Patreon cofounder and CTO Sam Yam and a16z consumer tech partner Li Jin join host Lauren Murrow to talk about the Passion Economy: the rise of online platforms that enable people to make a living off their unique interests and.

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SaaStr Podcast #214: Erica Schultz, CRO @ New Relic on What It Takes To Successfully Scale Into Enterprise

SaaStr

Erica Schultz is Chief Revenue Officer @ New Relic, the company that gives you the real time insights your software driven business needs to innovate faster. Prior to their IPO, New Relic raised over $214m in funding from some of the best in the business including Benchmark, Insight Venture Partners and Blackrock, to name a few. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: How Erica made her way into the world of SaaS and came to be Chief Revenue Officer @ New Relic. New Relic.

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Meet BetterCloud’s New Chief Technology Officer, Jamie Tischart

BetterCloud

Upon joining BetterCloud as its new CTO, Jamie Tischart was taken aback when he reviewed his professional biography with a colleague. What are some of the biggest challenges that you’d like to tackle as the company’s new CTO? Obviously, the cloud is not new to you.

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Meet BetterCloud’s New VP of Quality, Daniel Waithe

BetterCloud

Prior to joining BetterCloud as our new VP of quality, Waithe was a director of engineering at MailChimp. Secondarily, I had a chance to chat with [CTO Jamie Tischart ] even before he joined the company.

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

SaaStr

362: The Future of the Customer with Bernadette Nixon, CEO @ Algolia, Jay Snyder, Chief Customer Officer @ New Relic, and Nick Mehta, CEO @ Gainsight. I’m sure many of you use New Relic. A lot of your clients use New Relic heavily.

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The New Economics Of Customer Success: Showcasing The ROI Of Customer Success To Your CFO

Valuize Consulting

In this article, we introduce a new Customer Success metric to help you effectively measure the impact of your CS organization, definitively prove the ROI of Customer Success and garner eager investment from your CFO. NDR Efficiency: The New Customer Success Economics.

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Meet BetterCloud’s New VP of Site Reliability Engineering, Stephen Dick

BetterCloud

A few weeks ago, [ CTO Jamie Tischart ] and I talked about this fork in the road that engineers typically get to where they either move into management or commit to writing code for the rest of their careers.

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The Future of Work: Announcing a New Strategic Partnership with Dropbox

BetterCloud

Later this year, Dropbox will offer their customers a new solution called BetterCloud for Dropbox, allowing businesses to enforce custom security policies, scan content for sensitive data, and automate critical processes. Dropbox CTO Quentin Clark and BetterCloud Chief Product Officer Jim Brennan were both excited to announce this today at our annual customer conferences ( Work in Progress and Altitude , respectively). Here’s what the new best-of-breed world looks like.

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Top SaaStr Content for the Week: Dave Kellogg, PayFit and Insider CEOs, Notion COO, Salesforce CMO and More!

SaaStr

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: 8 Signs a New VP Won’t Work Out. An updated classic SaaStr guide on how to know if that new VP you worked so hard to find, recruit and get on board … is really going to make it.

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Common Pitfalls in Crypto Projects

Valerian Tech

However, they are still relatively new and their value can be extremely volatile, making them a high-risk investment for some people. A cryptocurrency project is a venture or initiative that involves the development, launch, and management of a new cryptocurrency or blockchain platform.

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15 New C-Suite Titles: Hype or Here to Stay?

SmartKarrot

As businesses and requirements evolved, more titles such as the CMO – chief marketing officer, CTO/CIO – chief technology/information officer, CHRO – chief human resources officer, and CSO – chief sales/business development officer emerged. In this blog, we will discuss the new C-suite titles.

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If You Don’t Have a Truly Great Founding Team, Just Take a Pause. Don’t Start Your Start-Up Yet.

SaaStr

But what they don’t have is a good enough founding team: Sometimes, if the prospective founder isn’t super technical, then the CTO/VPE isn’t really great. They’ve got a rent-a-CTO. Ok I know this post and its title seems like the most obvious thing in the world.

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