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

Both Sides of the Table

In this period (less than 2 years) he has brought on incredibly talented senior execs is sales, marketing, product management, client services, finance, vp engineering and more. In his spare time he raised nearly $30 million. VCs crave the ability to help portfolio companies. That in itself is quite a challenge.

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How to Hire a Chief Technology Officer

www.inc.com

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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Second Startups: Why Founders Often Struggle to Find Their Second Act

View from Seed

The reasons are fairly obvious: It’s easy to reference them and understand their track record; they’ve made a ton of mistakes already that they have hopefully learned from and are unlikely to make again; they are probably more adept at raising and managing capital, which reduces financing risk down the road, etc.

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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

SoCal CTO

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. Last night at the NY Tech Meetup, John Britton of our portfolio company Twilio showed how it is done. m the f%*kin’ boss.”. The Dry Run.

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Boston Tech Community – August 2012

Rob Go

link] – Not a meetup, but a great mentorship program started by serial CTO Sean Lindsay. Not Boston focused, but definitely follow his reports of PE and VC financings and the state of the venture market. @danprimack. Scaling Companies To Watch (ie: probably hiring). Dataxu - Demand Side Platform for Real Time Ad Buying.

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