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HOW TO: Hire the Perfect CTO

mashable.com

This is especially true when it comes to tech companies hiring the wrong chief technology officer. Today, CTOs are multi-taskers that aren’t just coders locked in some basement — they play a vital role in a tech company’s strategic plan and growth. Have an account? Zach Cutler , The Cutler Group.

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Attracting a CTO to your startup

www.thisisgoingtobebig.com

links » Attracting a CTO to your startup Wednesday, March 11, 2009 at 05:29AM by Charlie ODonnell Businesspeople ask me all the time how to find a technical partner for a startup. The ideal partner is financially independent. What value you are you to a partner? Or 60,70, or 80% if you plan on giving out less.)

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Announcing a Deal I’ve Wanted to Talk About for a Year

Both Sides of the Table

I’m super excited to announce that GRP Partners led the investment in Ethan Anderson’s new company MyTime (link has LA-based merchants but will give you a good feel for the product). I first met Ethan in 2005. Let me not bury the lede. I was preparing to move back to the US from London after 11 years abroad.

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Social Networking and Business Value

SoCal CTO

For the past 26 years, Majid has founded, led, turned-around and merged several companies in various industries, as well as providing consulting services to corporate executives in the areas of technology, governance, turn-around and strategy. Previously, he was Chief Operating Officer & Strategic Creative at USA GROUP, INC.,

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

Continuing my series of posts that I’ve been collecting that live at the intersection of Startups and being a Startup CTO : Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March here are the top posts from May 2010. SlideShare: VC signaling in seed rounds.

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Rally Software Acquired By CA Technologies for $480 Million

Feld Thoughts

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. At the same time, his partner at his previous company – Tim Miller – was doing an entrepreneur-in-residence at a local Boulder VC firm (Boulder Ventures).

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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. I had really positive experiences such as working with Greg Gretsch at Sigma Partners where he championed us to a partners’ meeting where we sort of got crucified. Another called Parker Harris, the co-founder and CTO. And covered we did.