2025 overview of AI Transformation Frameworks
I’ve been doing AI Transformation in one form or another since early 2023 – it was never my core role, but as a former CTO it’s often ended up being a substantial part of my input to different orgs I…
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Google Stitch evaluation + alternatives
Stitch just launched, offers to use AI to design any app/website for you. Exciting! I tried it out on a real-world task, and compared it to the off-the-shelf AI-driven options that already exist today – is Google’s product a huge…
YC Co-Founder Matching – better profiles
Exactly 4 months ago I published a writeup of my experiences in the Y-Combinator CoFounder matching programme – meeting 30 potential co-founders in 2 months – and comparing it to the UK’s Entrepreneur First. I haven’t founded a company yet,…
2 years of running London CTO meetups
It’s not quite a year since my last post on this, but December 2024 is going to be busy so I’m making sure I do it now rather than miss it. This is the second year of running “1st Wednesday”…
30x co-founder interviews in 2 months: Y-Combinator vs Entrepreneur First
Six years ago I was part of EF’s London Cohort (100x aspirational entrepreneurs brought together for 2 months, with pre-seed funding, to meet their co-founder and start a business). Since then I’ve also worked at two successful EF-funded companies. This…
How do you hire a FractionalCTO without using a Recruiter?
You’re a startup/scaleup founder looking to support your exec-team with some heavy-hitting CTO brains; or you’re a founding CTO looking for guidance from more experienced, “grey-hair”, CTOs. You figure a ‘Fractional CTO’ (fCTO) is the solution; great – now how…
How the Startup CTO role evolves as the company grows
(this is part of a series on fCTOs and CTOs at startups, where some is similar as at established companies, but a lot is different) The 5 elements of a Startup CTO As a jobtitle, “Startup CTO” is a misnomer…
Unpacking the “Startup CTO”
There are 4 necessary parts of a proto-CTO: Founder, CTO, VPE, Engineer CTO doesn’t really exist as a role until SeriesB – but without someone performing the proto-CTO role the company probably won’t survive to reach that stage I often…
Startup CTOs: Things you wish you’d done differently?
This came up recently on a mailing list of CTOs: If you had to start from the ground up again, what/where would you invest more or less time? (thanks to Klaas Ardinois for posing the question). This is a particularly…