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Startup CTO or Developer

TechEmpower - Information Technology

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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USN Quarterly Industry Day at Charleston: What you need to know to compete

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Contract type? Of course, Government is required to give Industry a forecast so that Industry can be prepared to respond. Call me lazy, but I really like it when I attend a Government presentation and they include some information on exactly and precisely WHAT upcoming opportunities are available for Industry. What quarter?

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Even The Best Cybersecurity Strategy Is Only Good Once

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Yes that means if you run a part time business out of your home you need a cybersecurity strategy. And of course that also goes for every other business of every other size small to big. No matter what the size of your business you should have a cybersecurity strategy. There are plenty of lessons […].

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Disney Does Data! With Magic Bands park visitors get a better experience (and Disney knows more about you than you would ever believe)

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Of course not! With Disney you are entering into a contract with a company and that contract holds them to very little when it comes to your privacy. Big Data CTO Disney Disruptive IT MagicBands RFID technology The Future of Technology' Well isn’t this a breach of our privacy?

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Mobility in DoD – Let’s get this SHOW ON THE ROAD!

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Of course, there is rampant duplication of efforts here, but that’s they way innovation happens. DISA, of course, is preparing a “we-build-it – you-buy-it” solution for mobility. DISA Awards MDM/MAS Contract to Team DMI (fedcyber.com). So it’s very satisfying to see DoD start really working on this issue. A “to-do” list!

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7012 Regs and Cyber insurance on collision course with small business

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In the second part of this article, we’ll look at why implementation, compliance, and risk transference strategies are on a collision course with private cyber insurance, with the critical functionality providers (that’s you) wedged in the middle. We’ll start by peeling back the onion layers around the regulations themselves.

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Tech Moves: Microsoft leader joins Shopify as CTO; StraighterLine taps Seattle tech vet as CEO

GeekWire

Shopify Photo) — Shopify hired one of Microsoft’s top engineering leaders as its new chief technology officer. Parakhin then spent five years at Russian tech giant Yandex, where he was CTO. Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott joined the Shopify board last month. Mikhail Parakhin. Washington D.C.-based colleges and universities.

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