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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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Advice for CTO Founders: Don't Let Business Kill the Business

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Home About Press IA Capital Partners Archives After 17 years in M&A, Derivatives and Trading, Im spending my time with young entrepreneurs in and around financial technology and digital media. Main February 23, 2010 Advice for CTO Founders: Dont Let Business Kill the Business Founding a technology company is an amazing thing.

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What Makes an Entrepreneur? Cojones (7/11)

Both Sides of the Table

They often make great team members such as head of products, CTO, head of sales, CFO, etc. VCs don’t have the same net worth litmus test and great entrepreneurs have a ton of sources for seed money to get financed very early. We weren’t ready to hire an associate yet so I offered him a summer internship. Not my problem.

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Why Uber is The Revenge of the Founders

Steve Blank

Hire a CEO to Go Public. The VCs would hire a CEO with a track record who looked and acted like the type of CEO Wall Street bankers expected to see in large companies. For three decades (1978-2008), investors controlled the board. If the founder was lucky, he got to stay as chairman or CTO. Board Control.

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Top 57 Online Startups Meets Technology Meets Product Posts for November 2010

SoCal CTO

aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. Finance, IT, Legal). Call it facts for hire. It would be a bit like the hired gun in the old west, but more suited for today’s times.

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Technical Co-Founders Are A Myth

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These professionals can help with anything from finance to marketing, but you wont find any software engineers volunteering their services. Eventually I was able to scrape up a few bucks and hired Sarah to build me a website prototype. Eventually Ill hire a software geek of my own, but right now Im doing just fine without one.

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Integrating Active Directory With Your SaaS Tool Stack

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When Windows Server 2008 R2 was launched, Microsoft built off the momentum with the release of Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) 2.0. Onboarding goes beyond hiring new employees. Passing the employee’s details to the IT department to notify them of the new hire is half the battle. Microsoft AD FS.

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