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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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Rally Software Acquired By CA Technologies for $480 Million

Feld Thoughts

I remember my friend Ryan Martens sitting down with me and Chris Wand around 2001 and walking us through his idea for changing the how he approached managing the software development process. We offered Ryan space to work out of our office which he did for a year or so as he got things up and running.

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The CEO’s CEO

Ben's Blog

Now personally responsible for the aforementioned massive risk, Alfred volunteered to leave his position as Vice President of Engineering and Chief Technology Officer to be the General Manager of the then tiny Weblogic division in the crowded, nascent Application Server market. outcome, go about starting a new company?

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

Both Sides of the Table

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. Another called Parker Harris, the co-founder and CTO. The managing partner of the firm called me the next day. After Office 2.0 we had about 25 firms contacting us – more than I could manage. At the end of this post I’ll tell you what he said.

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boldstart 2018 recap and what’s hot in enterprise 2019

BeyondVC

Tony Saldanha (P&G Next Gen Svces, Transformant), Farhan Shah (Allstate, CTO, Head of Platform Eng), Munu Gandhi (VP Infrastructure, AON), Virginia Lyons (CISO, Williams Sonoma) and GTM advisors?—?Natalie Look at 2001 and 2008’s Lehman collapse and Sequoia RIP Good Times deck for lessons learned. New CXO advisors join?—?

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The Other Amazon Deal this week. Drupal founder attracts over $100 Million in 3 months.

Scalable Startup

Drupal was launched in 2001, and Acquia started in 2007. The term Content Management System has become mainstream in everything from the Fortune 500 to small businesses. I have no doubt he will, for he is a true “Startup CEO”, even though his title is CTO at Acquia. Acquia, Inc.

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How many cofounders should your startup have?

The Next Web

Impossible to manage.”. Of course, Excite also went bankrupt in 2001, so maybe five is a terrible number? After launching our Windows online backup service five years ago, our CTO pitched that we should focus on launching our Mac version next. You know what is definitely the wrong number of cofounders? Too many.”.

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