Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2014

I first met Nick Halstead in 2009 when he was running a company called Tweetmeme (the predecessor to DataSift) who had invented the Retweet button and actually helped Twitter develop its early API. So Nick drove strategy & tech from the UK and remained an active board member and CTO of the company.

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www.huffingtonpost.com

MAY 10, 2011

Minted.com is both a global design community and stationery retailer. 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. ­om migrated off Drupal.

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Startup Company Lawyer

MAY 4, 2009

The driving beliefs behind the Institute are that (1) great founders are often overlooked by the current entrepreneurial ecosystem, and that (2) innovative startups have a dramatic positive effect on the global economy. Helping smart people start new companies should, in fact, help the global economy. Applications. Basic Research.

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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. Twenty-five years ago, to go public you had to sell stuff – not just acquire users or have freemium products.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 10, 2021

Since the release of Windows Server 2009 and subsequent launches, there are some updates to protected logins now, including: i). More effective onboarding allows you spend less time on admin tasks, and more time educating the new employee, improving the sales process, and ultimately make more money. Image source ).

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Altgate

APRIL 26, 2009

I’ve mentioned this survey several times before, but this time I bring news of the 2009 survey opening to participants. This year the survey covers five countries (China, India, Israel, UK and US) in two industries (technology and life sciences). Don’t miss the opportunity to get the 2009 data… take the survey now!

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

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. December 2009.

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