2009 CTO Finance Sales 
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MAY 10, 2011
Ive occasionally worked with executive recruiters, for example in hiring a CTO for my first company, Eve.com. To sum up, heres what I would do again as a non-technical founder looking for a technical co-founder or CTO. Minted.com is both a global design community and stationery retailer. Dove Ad Casts Spotlight On Madison Avenue.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 22, 2012
It encourages a bit too much FOMO (fear of missing out) and over-valuation in companies and a desire to do huge financing rounds to be perceived as the “knock-out winner.” It’s been high tide since 2009 so an entire batch of entrepreneurs don’t know what low tide even looks like. million and then $5.9
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Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 5, 2010
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. Great companies are comprised of great individual point people or functional leaders.
Startup Company Lawyer
MAY 4, 2009
TechCrunch initially reported on the Founder Institute in March 2009. Founders are not expected to quit their day jobs to participate in the program, which starts on May 19, 2009 and ends on September 8, 2009. Applications are due by May 10, 2009. Joe Betts-LaCroix – CTO, OQO. Applications. Basic Research.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 24, 2017
This required a repeatable and scalable sales process, which required a professional sales staff and a product stable enough that customers wouldn’t return it. If the founder was lucky, he got to stay as chairman or CTO. A 20th century VC was likely to have an MBA or finance background. Hire a CEO to Go Public.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 24, 2021
It has historically been the case that VCs would rather fund the promise of 100x in a company with almost no revenue than the reality of a company growing at 50% but doing $20+ million in sales. This “overnight success” was first financed in 2004. Imagine if, say, Autodesk had purchased it in 2009 for $100 million?
SoCal CTO
SEPTEMBER 8, 2010
August was a slow month in terms of traffic and I was away for a lot of the month, but there were some really great posts at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. Dec 26, 2009). Paul Graham kicked it off by noting that all the financings in the recent YC batch were converts.
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