YoungUpstarts

MAY 21, 2020

Additionally, seeking advice from professionals such as marketers will give you insight into current trends such as social advertising, expectations and consumer behaviours. They will be direct about any issues they can see which may arise with your product, and provide invaluable advice and wisdom.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2014

The most common ones I see and salute are CEO, CFO, and CTO. A few other credible ones would include Chairman of the Board (COB), Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). Chief Risk Officer. More executives, or other more creative titles are seen as a big red flag.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 28, 2010

Craigslist - He also considered advertising on Craigslist, but again was concerned about quality. The LA CTO Forum , which I help organize, has more than 100 Software/Web CTOs from all sorts of companies. Freelance Sites - he considered using one of the freelance sites, but was concerned about the quality he would get.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

The most common ones I see and salute are CEO, CFO, and CTO. A few other credible ones would include Chairman of the Board (COB), Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). Chief Risk Officer. More executives, or other more creative titles are seen as a big red flag.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 2, 2013

I've had several Startup CTO Consulting sessions recently where it became apparent that the Founder needed help with the business and product as much or more than the technology. Or in the case of the LinkedIn outreach: Hi John, I'm leading the marketing efforts for StartupRoar , an early-stage startup that sells to B2B advertisers.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The concept of a Chief Marketing Officer comes from large enterprises, but it is a role that has grown exponentially in the last couple of years. A fractional CMO is basically a part-time version of this position. What is the difference between a marketing agency, a marketing coach, a consultant, and a Fractional CMO?

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Fractional CTO Small Business Metrics Revenue 62

View from Seed

JULY 31, 2014

When the purchasing decisions for work software can be made bottoms-up at the individual or group level, rather than top-down from management, committee, or a CIO/CTO’s office away from the front line of the business, the product offering and entire software business can be radically different.

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Seed Stage B2C Technical Review Disintermediation 272

SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

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. Through advertising or direct sales, these sites harvest intent. they have purchasing intent ).*.

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Fractional CTO Startup Venture Capital Cofounder 248

Gust

APRIL 20, 2014

The most common ones I see and salute are CEO, CFO, and CTO. A few other credible ones would include Chairman of the Board (COB), Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). Chief Risk Officer. More executives, or other more creative titles are seen as a big red flag.

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CTO Hire Fractional CTO Angel Investor Public Relations 171

Steve Blank

JUNE 6, 2016

It included things like advertising, marketing analytics, cyber security. I presented them to our chief product officer and our CTO. We started to do that in the advertising space first. .” So I wrote a 9-page charter of what I thought we should do. There were things like drones in there.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Fractional CTO Analytics 120

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2010

The most common ones I see and salute are CEO, CFO, and CTO. A few other credible ones would include Chairman of the Board (COB), Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). Chief Risk Officer. More executives, or other more creative titles are seen as a big red flag.

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CTO Hire Fractional CTO Startup Angel Investor 227

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

Another major hire was Ryan Lissack who joined as CTO. He joined when Maker was a small, chaotic organization and helped bridge our talented creative team with the outside world of investor, brands, partners & press.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 24, 2018

Eighteen months later, I’m keynoting at conferences and serving clients in London, Sydney, Singapore, Los Angeles, Lisbon, Vancouver, and 50 other cities,” says Logan Young, the co-founder of BlitzMetrics, a Facebook dashboard and advertising company. Learn, Do, Teach: Build Your Expertise First.

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Technical Review Technology Louisville Los Angeles 115

VC Cafe

APRIL 7, 2011

Gil and his brother-in-law, Koby Berkovich (CTO), realised the potential in web-based search engine that could pinpoint relevant products for customers. Further down the road, Gil suggests the startup might be interested in selling advertising or intelligence, as well as licensing fees.

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Search Product Technical Review Software Review 84

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

This suggestion comes from George Heimel , chief technology officer at Square 360. What you can do as a small business owner for marketing your services: – Promote your brand via Facebook advertising. According to Facebook, more than 2 million small to mid-sized businesses advertise on Facebook.

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Small Business Differentiation Hosting Security 140

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 10, 2012

It’s painful to watch web-based media initiatives use traditional marketing techniques such as interruption advertisements or ‘all about us’ marketing communications. Traditional approaches to marketing and sales will only screw up customer advocacy. It’s a little like hawking a ‘get rich quick in real estate’ scheme at a TED conference.

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Customer Fractional CTO Canada Technical Review 154

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Startups that come to me and ask me to sign an NDA in order to get Free Startup CTO Consulting really are missing it. "We are doing something in mobile advertising." Since I fall into the expert category, my belief is that you should be pretty open with me. " Ummm. "Good luck with that." " What can I say.

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NDA Stealth Intellectual Property Non-disclosure Agreement 211

www.inc.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

500|5000 Conference Honorees Resources Press Apply 2011 ); Topics > Leadership and Managing > Human Resources > Job Descriptions > How to Hire a CTO When its time to add a technologist to your slate of executives, what are the best practices to follow? Some companies have a CTO focused on operations under the CIO.

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Fractional CTO CTO CTO Hire Hiring 42

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 14, 2009

In 1986 I started an advertising and public relations firm to serve software and hardware companies, which became a marketing consulting business ( www.Allen.com ) when I moved to L.A. A few years ago, my CTO spotted a need that local groups and organizations have in handling RSVPs and registrations for meetings and events. Hey, radio.

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Los Angeles Networking Southern California Marketing 150

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Startups that come to me and ask me to sign an NDA in order to get Free Startup CTO Consulting really are missing it. "We are doing something in mobile advertising." Since I fall into the expert category, my belief is that you should be pretty open with me. " Ummm. "Good luck with that." " What can I say.

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NDA Stealth Intellectual Property Non-disclosure Agreement 198

www.entrepreneur.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Answers Ask Entrepreneur Home Business Operations Business Opportunities Sales & Marketing Advertising & PR Finance & Accounting Franchises Home Business Human Resources Internet/E-Commerce Legal Issues Starting Up Technology Most Recent Answers How Can I Streamline My E-Commerce Operation? Breaking Down the Buffett Tax.

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Sweat Equity Equity Fractional CTO CTO 55

The Next Web

MARCH 10, 2013

This is a guest post by Chris Hollindale, co-founder and CTO of Hasty. It could be anything: over the last few days I’ve had ideas for new product features, potential advertising campaigns, strategies for hiring the right type of people to fit into our team, and ways of creating the company culture we want to build.

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Entrepreneur Fractional CTO CTO Hire Stealth 140

Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

Kayak was started here in my backyard of Boston… co-founder & CTO Paul English and the product/engineering team is based here in Concord MA. Historically more revenue came from distribution/lead-gen (57% in 2007), but this tipped in 2008 though appears to be steady from 2009 to 2010 at about 58% advertising and 42% distribution.

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Pre-Money Valuation Liquidation Preference Dividend Common Stock 113

ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Anthony Favazza, CEO of DiningCircle has hired a CTO that will be overseeing a rebuild of our product in early 2012. "We Bonfyre was created by Off Campus Media, a company focused on creating value for college students and highly relevant advertising opportunities for local merchants and national brands.

St. Louis 118

St. Louis CTO Hire Fractional CTO Entrepreneur 118

Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

link] – Not a meetup, but a great mentorship program started by serial CTO Sean Lindsay. Topics have included “Leveraging Pinterest”, “Mobile Commerce”, and “Facebook Advertising”. Belmont Technologies – CAD in the Cloud (backed by Northbridge and NEA). Clypd – Video Advertising (backed by Atlas, DataPoint, Boston Seed).

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Boston Technical Review Community Cofounder 71

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

and also to local advertisements. On the development side, my top go-to person is my KlickFu co-founder and CTO, Rod Morison , as well as the other developers who are contributing to the project. Tell Rod about the LA CTO Forum. Great point about how social around photos has really moved forward over the past few years.

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Management Product Entrepreneur Silicon Valley 150

View from Seed

JULY 24, 2015

Talking design was Brian Kalma, design chief at Blade, a startup foundry launched by Paul English, former co-founder/CTO of Kayak. “Brand experience is something you really want to figure out before you start spending on advertising.” More functionally, Boston needs to improve its design, branding, and PR skills.

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Boston Cofounder B2C PR 120

This is going to be BIG.

MAY 19, 2010

It was their first product hire and it wasn't a job they had advertised widely for, so it never would up in our newsletter. Instead, the CTO there met someone amazing at SXSW who turned out to be a big fan (and customer) of the company. Our portfolio company Modcloth , for example, just made a great Product Manager hire out of Google.

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CTO Hire Hiring Portfolio Early Stage 99

The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Nearly 90 percent responded positively when asked if they would be interested in telling their companies’ stories as a form of advertising, through a platform like Happenstance. While our app is free for listeners, there are many ways to monetize through advertising that feels authentic. Co-Founder/CTO : Lewis Gardner.

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Chicago Illinois New York City Cofounder 148

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 19, 2012

My personal highlight was watching newly-appointed United States CTO Todd Park receive a standing ovation from a crowd that is decidedly skeptical about government. I had an incredible couple of days at SXSW. The Lean Startup track was successful beyond my wildest imaginations (we'll have video up soon ).

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Lean Silicon Valley United States Government 165

This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 14, 2011

Last Thursday night, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels joined a small group of technical folks from cloud and commerce related First Round portfolio companies for dinner at Double Crown. Setting up this dinner made me really appreciate the full scope of the vision of Amazon.

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Lean Portfolio Cloud Startup 108

Ben's Blog

APRIL 27, 2011

If you start out building automobiles, you won’t likely pivot over to become an online advertising network. When you start a company, the decision about which market to pursue comes early and lasts a very long time. As a result, the CEO’s job is to optimize the company in the current market or move to an adjacent market.

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Acquisition Cloud Architecture Revenue 78

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Found this via Ben Kuo - The math behind Internet advertising businesses The advertising equivalence principle? It’s a non-trivial feat to develop a $100MM annual revenue business through online advertising. billion monthly page views and over 300 million monthly unique visitors creating 25 page views per user.

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Advertising Revenue Global Audience 150

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 1, 2013

In Singapore, SMS spam has become enough of an issue that the country announced a national Do-Not-Call registry that will take effect from 2014, aimed at protecting consumers from from unsolicited SMS advertisements and messages.

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Email Global SMS Malaysia 157

SiliconHills

OCTOBER 8, 2015

Kixer, a mobile advertising platform with its technical team based in Austin, just got acquired by LAKANA. Kixer is based in Los Angeles, but Jake Moilanen, its co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, lives in Austin and so does the company’s technology team. LAKANA, based in St. Paul, Minn.,

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Los Angeles Austin Cofounder Advertising 48

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Advertising. TECHNOLOGY. Technology. We had a rough time early on," says Parker, president and chief technology officer of Roving Software Inc. , Email Address: ); ADVERTISEMENT. FROM OUR PARTNERS. ); ); ); ADVERTISEMENT. Personal Finance. LEADERSHIP & MANAGING. Leadership. Employee Benefits.

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Fractional CTO Equity Iowa Technical Cofounder 40

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 4, 2018

myself, CTO Mathieu Dupont and Game Designer Olivier Asselin. CieAR has two offices?—?one Many advertising and public relations agencies are based in Montreal and there is a lot of creative talent here. As a company, we participated in 2017 in the Startup areas and we were also a part of the Team Quebec’s exhibit.

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