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Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO

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If you haven’t noticed from my web site or blog, I work as a web applications developer and a consulting CTO. Preserve your equity by using a consulting CTO to ramp up your company before securing early-stage financing and hiring a permanent technology partner. But I’m not the only person who does this kind of work.

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24 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

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To find our domain, and therefore name, I created an excel sheet that had one column of ‘primary’ words like fund, finance, deal etc. I came up with my business name, Kate’s Theatrics at about 9pm April 14, 2001. We also knew that one-word.com domains are either insanely expensive ($1 million+). Thanks to Alex Vale, Fundstack !

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Bubble Trouble? I Don’t Think So

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Similarly, in recent high profile private financing rounds for private technology companies with valuations over $1B, the valuation multiples were at or below corresponding multiples for publicly traded companies such as Google. Constrained by such an early and weak technology platform, companies built poor applications. Much better.

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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

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Loading… Personal Finance. Personal Finance. Ritter, a finance professor at University of Floridas business school. Netscape and Opsware, which he helped found, went public with single-class share structures in 1995 and 2001, respectively. APG - Associate - Application Developer (NON ALADDIN) -.