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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. third party to vet or manage&# your development team.

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Bubble Trouble? I Don’t Think So

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Let’s look at public market comparables and venture capital flows to see if we can find a match. 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.

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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

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Loading… Personal Finance. Personal Finance. Over the past two years, one of the most influential venture-capital firms has turned the usual rules of start-up investing on its head. gave up 70% of the company to American Research & Development Corp. » More. Loading… Markets. » More.