Defining roles: CTO and/or VP Engineering

When technical titles get overloaded

My journey into the Berlin startup scene

Six years as Heroku’s CTO was the greatest professional experience of my life. But what’s next?

Invited Technical Co-Founder

The role you don’t want to be in.

How it Begins

CTO/Founder

What’s my job again?

You Can’t Outsource Your CTO

If you are trying to build an internet business, find a CTO, not a…

8 Team Leadership Tips for Startups

CTO Tips From the Trenches

Ideas Prioritization: Agile Approach 

CTO Tips From the Trenches

Imagine you have a list of ideas you and your team came up with. Now you need to pick one. Or prioritize them. How would you go about doing it? The technique described below will help save you…

Code as Crutch

From programmer to manager to mentor — this CTO learned the hard way that code isn’t the answer to every problem.

The Quest for the ideal CEO-type Co-Founder

For the last 15 months, after I’ve folded my previous startup, I’ve been looking for a CEO-type co-founder to launch my next big project with. At the root of this search was the realization that I didn’t want to be both CTO and CEO anymore, and that for…

Be Assertive

It is worth it.

Ideas want to grow and evolve.