In a world of rapidly changing technology, the need for experienced and knowledgeable CTOs has never been greater. You will learn what a fractional CTO is and how they can help startups and businesses."The perfectly run startups are not in business anymore because they're focused on perfect operations instead of growth."Oshri Cohen is a fractional CTO who helps startups grow their businesses by providing practical tips and advice. He has a background in customer service and logistics, and brings this experience to his role as a CTO.This is Oshri Cohen's story...I'm Oshree Cohen, a fractional CTO, and I help startups with their technical challenges. I've worked with companies in a variety of industries, and I've found that many of the challenges they face are similar. I help them by first diagnosing the problem and then creating a plan to solve it. I make sure that the company's leadership is on board with the plan and that they understand their role in making it happen. By doing this, I help startups overcome their challenges and grow their businesses..In this episode, you will learn the following:1. What makes a valuable CTO?2. How has the role of CTO changed in recent years?3. What is the biggest challenge that CTOs face when trying to implement change in an organization?Resources:https://www.oshricohen.me/https://www.linkedin.com/in/oshricohen/https://twitter.com/trustthatcoderoshri.cohen@icloud.com Chapter Summaries:1) Digital Health Company didn't realize that customer service is customer service 101. CTO used to sell ERP and helped customer service organizations in the past. Experience teaches CTOs where all the Minefields are because experience teaches them where to avoid Minefields.2) Doug Thompson is the host of the Doug Thompson podcast. Oshree Cohen is a guest on this week's episode. Doug Thompson shares tips for telling a story with his listeners. He also shares some practical tips on how to tell a story.3) Arthur Cohen is a fractional CTO who works with startups on a part time basis. Arthur used to work in the logistics industry and now he works in the digital health industry. Arthur finds the United States amazing in health tech innovation. Arthur had a Ghost writer on a couple of episodes. The CTL is the person who understands business, technology, operations, customer service, product and brings it all together with technology. CTOs don't necessarily come from a development background, they'll come more from a business type focus. The person before him just started building software.4) Covet is a fractional CTO. He started his first business with $3 in his pocket and worked his way up the corporate ranks until 2008. Now he works remotely and has clients all over the world. He has a client in France? In England? In Croatia? Croatia, Florida, New York, Philadelphia and Montreal.5) The downsides to working remotely is that you don't book as many back to back calls and you get burned out. The technology was there to support this all the time, but it was a resistance to the way that we've always done business. Now it's more acceptable.6) When you start a new company, you have to convince them to change their track. How do you do that? I do a technical diagnostics first. Then I showed them where they are and where they should be. And how we're going to get them there. I make them the hero.7) There are three different CTOs in a startup's first three years of business: developer, manager and leader. CTO and CEO are very important roles and the same individual is remote to...
