First Post. Ever.
Ahh, feels good to do something other than development. The life of a startup CTO with a regular full-time job is not quite as glamorous as Hollywood and Conan make it out to be. It's a lot of laptops on the couch and unwatched Battlestar Galactica running in the background. I actually need to rewatch a few of the episodes. Boomer's a cylon?
This blog is how I'm going to share my experience joining a pre-capital startup on the site, and what it was like and how I kicked way too much ass at it. It's not really meant to be self-help or inspirational, though. You either work your ass off or you sit around reading people who do's articles about how they did it. I will say this, though: I never really thought I could do it until I just jumped into it.
I'm a 27 year old developer in sunny Cincinnati, Ohio. I write primarily Python/Django, and that makes me better than you. I call this blog The Accidental CTO because I never intended on being a CTO. I was happy with freelance gigs and doing client work at the agency where I'm employed. The whole CTO thing kind of fell into my lap. I'll get into that in a later post.
Right now, I just want to leave you with one sentiment: great things are not always built by great builders. Being the CTO and not the CEO means I report to someone and I have a team. The team is everything. I just happen to be the one who kicks ass at web development and gets to boss the dev contractors around. That's definitely a perk.
I promise I'll have a post worth reading up soon. This is kind of an ice breaker.
jdb
This blog is how I'm going to share my experience joining a pre-capital startup on the site, and what it was like and how I kicked way too much ass at it. It's not really meant to be self-help or inspirational, though. You either work your ass off or you sit around reading people who do's articles about how they did it. I will say this, though: I never really thought I could do it until I just jumped into it.
I'm a 27 year old developer in sunny Cincinnati, Ohio. I write primarily Python/Django, and that makes me better than you. I call this blog The Accidental CTO because I never intended on being a CTO. I was happy with freelance gigs and doing client work at the agency where I'm employed. The whole CTO thing kind of fell into my lap. I'll get into that in a later post.
Right now, I just want to leave you with one sentiment: great things are not always built by great builders. Being the CTO and not the CEO means I report to someone and I have a team. The team is everything. I just happen to be the one who kicks ass at web development and gets to boss the dev contractors around. That's definitely a perk.
I promise I'll have a post worth reading up soon. This is kind of an ice breaker.
jdb
