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What does a Startup CTO do anyway?

CTO jobs are pretty nebulous at best, what a CTO does is ill defined and never well understood, we're lots of different things to lots of different people.

Creativity : It’s What Makes Us Shine

Creativity has helped many people through the pandemic but what's the science behind when that creative moment arrives?

Early Stage CTOs … Can Be Bad For Your Wealth

CTO Academy looks at why leadership training and support is particularly important for tech leaders in fast growth companies.

How Our Hiring Strategy Changed, When We Went For Growth

Back in 2012, I started a two-man agency in Manchester with aspirations of becoming the goto company for helping SMEs achieve digital transformation. We had to start with the basics which meant websites, apps, print … yep, you name it, we probably had a tender for it at some point. We were soon given the […]

Meet the Team: Owen Evans

Owen is based in New Zealand and has been a tech leader for more than a decade and for 6 years was a chief architect at Xero. His tech expertise and strategic oversight is helping CTOs and senior leadership teams around the world to achieve growth within a software engineering heavy company. He also shares […]

Meet the Team : Jim Mortensen

Jim is a highly experienced tech leader with extensive business achievements over a wide range of domains and particular expertise in the payment card industry, PayFac solutions, AWS, and data security. He has secured 2 successful exits as a member of the executive management team of a start-up and mid-size company. Alongside coaching global tech […]

One Afternoon With The School of Code

CTO Academy collaborated with The School of Code for a presentation on a career in tech and leadership development

Diary of An Accidental CTO: Team Member to Team Leader

Suddenly as I stepped into a tech leadership role i was facing unknowns where my decisions would impact directly on my team and how effective they and I could be

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