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Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO

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Web Startup Lessons Advice from a CTO and Entrepreneur Home About Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO There are not many to be found. He or she might call himself a “consulting CTO,&# “freelance CTO,&# “on-demand CTO,&# “CTO on call,&# “CTO for hire,&# or just a “technology strategy advisor.&#

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

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I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. Another called Parker Harris, the co-founder and CTO. We have also been very busy with our next release, which is due out by December 11th (but I’ll save that for a different post). In case VC’s haven’t figured this out yet, shit rolls downhill.

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How many cofounders should your startup have?

The Next Web

He started his first business at age 15 and ran it until he went off to college at UC Berkeley. When Gleb was in business school at Berkeley he founded NetRelevance – his professors liked his business plan so much that they used it in the Haas School of Business as a teaching tool. Sometimes I’m wrong.

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Technical Co-Founders Are A Myth

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After a few months, the demo site won a business plan competition. It takes more than an "idea" to make a viable business, and as such it should take more than an "idea" to get a cofounder (technical or otherwise) on board. From No To CTO. I went to every programming event I could find on Meetup.com.

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Valuations 101: Scorecard Valuation Methodology

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Many years of business experience. ++. Experience in this business sector. Experience as a COO, CFO, CTO. +. Experience in sales or technology. — No business experience. This article was originally written in May 2001, revised extensively in January 2011 and again October 2011. Experience. +.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

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I think the real moral of this story is, (1) if you want to work at a startup, make sure the CTO cares about problem solving and not technology religion, (2) if you’re cooking steaks on a gas grill and you see your CTO warming up a dead squirrel over a book of matches, starting looking for a new job. Michael Chan.

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