Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

(Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. But I managed a few "good learning experiences" before throwing myself full-bore into IMVU. So much for timing.

San Francisco 155

San Francisco Technical Cofounder Fractional CTO CTO 155

Reid Hoffman

JULY 15, 2021

Drew Bagnell, Aurora’s CTO, had played a key role in Uber’s initial autonomous vehicle efforts and also ran a robotics-oriented research lab at Carnegie Mellon for more than a decade before that. Acquiring it has given Aurora the chance to incorporate its most innovative hardware technologies into its own hardware kit.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Advisory Board Cofounder Acquisition 28

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2017

CEO brought in to replace the founder, 5 - 10% CTO, CFO, VP of Marketing or Sales, 1.5 - 3% Chief Engineer or Architect, 1 - 1.5% Advisory Board Member, 1% Senior Engineer,3 -.7% 7% Product Manager,2 -.3% 3% If you are not on this list, just worry about getting whatever your peers are getting.

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Stock Stock Options Advisory Board Startup 140

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2013

CEO brought in to replace the founder, 5 - 10% CTO, CFO, VP of Marketing or Sales, 1.5 - 3% Chief Engineer or Architect, 1 - 1.5% Advisory Board Member, 1% Senior Engineer,3 -.7% 7% Product Manager,2 -.3% 3% If you are not on this list, just worry about getting whatever your peers are getting.

Stock Options 224

Stock Options Stock Advisory Board Startup 224

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

CEO brought in to replace the founder, 5 - 10% CTO, CFO, VP of Marketing or Sales, 1.5 - 3% Chief Engineer or Architect, 1 - 1.5% Advisory Board Member, 1% Senior Engineer,3 -.7% 7% Product Manager,2 -.3% 3% If you are not on this list, just worry about getting whatever your peers are getting.

Stock Options 230

Stock Options Stock Advisory Board Startup 230

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2011

CEO brought in to replace the founder, 5 - 10% CTO, CFO, VP of Marketing or Sales, 1.5 - 3% Chief Engineer or Architect, 1 - 1.5% Advisory Board Member, 1% Senior Engineer,3 -.7% 7% Product Manager,2 -.3% 3% If you are not on this list, just worry about getting whatever your peers are getting.

Equity 234

Equity Advisory Board Stock Options Stock 234

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2015

CEO brought in to replace the founder, 5 - 10% CTO, CFO, VP of Marketing or Sales, 1.5 - 3% Chief Engineer or Architect, 1 - 1.5% Advisory Board Member, 1% Senior Engineer,3 -.7% 7% Product Manager,2 -.3% 3% If you are not on this list, just worry about getting whatever your peers are getting.

Stock Options 120

Stock Options Stock Advisory Board Startup 120

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

The VP of Sales and I flew to Providence to convince Andy van Dam at Brown to join our company, or at a minimum lead our advisory board. He agreed to talk to us as he packed his office, and we followed him down the street as he went to get a haircut. Wasn’t he a CTO or something? (He

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North Carolina Silicon Valley Fractional VPE Part-Time VPE 125

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 20, 2010

CEO brought in to replace the founder, 5 - 10% CTO, CFO, VP of Marketing or Sales, 1.5 - 3% Chief Engineer or Architect, 1 - 1.5% Advisory Board Member, 1% Senior Engineer,3 -.7% 7% Product Manager,2 -.3% 3% If you are not on this list, just worry about getting whatever your peers are getting.

Stock 144

Stock Stock Options Advisory Board Startup 144

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

Establish a customer advisory board. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Create a members-only forum where only qualified customers (perhaps, paying customers) can post. Let them connect with each other, but also with you. Treat these people as VIPs, and listen to what they have to say.

San Francisco 131

San Francisco Customer Lean Continuous Deployment 131

SoCal CTO

MARCH 4, 2010

I’ve worked with 30+ early-stage companies in all sorts of capacities (and spoken to many, many more), so I thought it might be worthwhile trying to classify the various ways that I’ve engaged in different technology roles in startups. It’s up to collective team to manage how this gets allocated.

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Technical Review Fractional CTO Technology CTO Hire 170

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Great content again in September that meets at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. Advisory Board. Why Product Managers Wear Sneakers - Steve Blank , September 2, 2010 I gave a talk last night to the Silicon Valley Product Management Association. Carpe Diem.

Technology 191

Technology Product San Francisco CTO Hire 191

scalablestartup.berkeley.edu

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Senior Managing Director at Trident Capital. Board advisors can be an essential asset for any budding startup; however, there are important criteria to consider as you select candidates for this crucial role. By the time you start recruiting a particular candidate, he or she may already be a member of other startup advisory boards.

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Advisory Board San Francisco Startup Bandwidth 40

thinkspace.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Equity for Board of Directors and Advisory Board. Typically for an Advisory Board it ranges from 1/10th of percent to 1/2% and for Board of Directors from 1/2% to 2%. Board Member 1. Manager or Junior Engineer 0.2 - 0.33. Commitment & Risk 7 0 0 7 49. Responsibilities 6 0 0 6 36.

Equity 62

Equity Employee Founder CTO Hire 62

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 22, 2009

Each cycle was punctuated by a meeting of our Business Advisory Board (BAB). At this meeting, we would present our goals for the cycle, all the raw results wed managed to collect, and our conclusions about what was next. As the CTO/VP Engineering, I was the worst offender. Heres what it looked like.

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San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment Agile 167

www.collegemogul.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

With a lot of asking, and a few interviews later, we managed to find an intern who works with us 15 hours a week. We’ve had some success with hiring interns for fashion design and editorial work, so we were hoping to replicate that with a coder, even in basic HTML, CSS and PHP. Originally.

Technical Review 40

Technical Review Web Development Web Developer 40