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Technical Advisors: Every Startup Needs One

TechEmpower

Would you create contracts without an attorney? Specifically, they should know about, and help with: Asking and answering the 53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators Knowing when and how to bring on development talent ( Hiring Developers Before Product/Market Fit? , Are we using modern and secure third-party libraries?

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Monumental funding secured for robots to lay bricks

ReadWriteStart

An Amsterdam-based startup has secured $25 million in funding in its mission to transform the construction industry, led by robots laying bricks! Significant support and potential Monumental was founded in 2021 by Salar al Khafaji (CEO) and Sebastiaan Visser (CTO). Image: Rodolfo Quiros/Pexels.

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8 Tips To Get the Most Out of Your Investors and Board

Both Sides of the Table

In his spare time he raised nearly $30 million. Trust me – that kind of encounter can mean the difference between securing a contract, protecting yourself from getting turfed or getting acquired one day. The Agile Board. Equally each of your board members are probably on 5-10 boards. Board Meetings.

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Five common misconceptions about building a startup in New York City

This is going to be BIG.

Someone offers you a secure job with lots of responsibility to build some piece of trading software that billions of dollars will run on and thousands of people will use. Should they work on your “real time” web startup or write code that processes a million trades a minute? Response: Wall St. That’s why recruiters make so much coin.

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Why Uber is The Revenge of the Founders

Steve Blank

To turn your company’s stock into cash, you engaged a top-notch investment bank (Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs) and/or their Silicon Valley compatriots (Hambrecht & Quist, Montgomery Securities, Robertson Stephens). Hire a CEO to Go Public. If the founder was lucky, he got to stay as chairman or CTO.

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Digital Governance Best Practices

Board Effect

Digital governance helps to keep organizations agile, nimble and adaptable, which is necessary in today’s age of evolution and disruption. Many companies are now also hiring a CISO or CTO to fulfill their need for IT expertise. Many companies are now also hiring a CISO or CTO to fulfill their need for IT expertise.

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Taking stock of the Dutch tech cluster: What The Netherlands needs to win the European startup scene

The Next Web

Think of Werner Vogels (CTO of Amazon), Guido van Rossem (founder of Python programming language and senior engineer at Dropbox) or the more senior Gerard Kleisterlee (chairman of Vodafone). We have great intellectual property protection, and have efficient ways to enforce contracts. Think Philips Electronics, NXP, ASML and Tom Tom.