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The various types of funding for startups

Working in an early stage, fast moving start up is often a roller coaster experience. More importantly if you are at the forefront  and the issue of funding for startups takes . Rarely dull, sometimes chaotic, often fun but always a steep learning curve. You will have responsibilities thrown at you way ahead of expectations […]

Good Diet, Great Leadership

Friday afternoon and we conducted a less than rigorous survey amongst the CTO Academy tribe in an effort to decipher the mysterious relationship between healthy eating habits and great leadership, loosely titled, “Wot’s your work diet?’ Before you quasi-academics dig deep into our findings, some advance caveats; It was a very small sample size that […]

What is a VP of Engineering?

VPs of Engineering are responsible for ensuring that design requirements are met, overseeing the consistency of user experiences, and managing a team of engineers and developers.

Non Traditional Route to CTO

As most companies are now technical companies roles like the CMO can sometimes have a bigger tech budget than the CTO and it’s more possible than before to achieve senior tech roles via non traditional routes, though it's highly unusual.

How to avoid burnout in your tech team (and in you)

Moving into a new company or new role with an established team can be a challenge. Amplify that challenge if you’re taking over from a popular predecessor. How do you start building trust and managing the star performer(s)? You’re inheriting a team, potentially hand picked and who’ve long since been through the forming, storming, norming, […]

What a CTO needs from their scrum master …

In my technology career, the movement from Waterfall (which should never have been adopted and is in the original paper as not being suitable for most software development) to Agile development of either Kanban or Scrum are the main processes adopted. Bags of time and effort has been spent on which method is better. It […]

From Senior Developer to Senior Tech Leader

Many of us have travelled the journey from junior developer to senior developer to tech leader. We know and understand where you’re coming from and where you want to go. It’s why we launched CTO Academy

The Established CTO

You might think the established CTO wouldn't need any support but the truth is that operating at a very senior level making key and business critical decisions on a regular basis can be extremely challenging and isolating.

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