The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

The accelerator, which counts Amazon CTO Werner Vogels among its startup mentors , will be showcasing its first batch of startups (see list below) in Silicon Valley on the 20th of September, followed by a panel discussion about “The Future of the European Startup Community” Sounds riveting!

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www.informationarbitrage.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Main February 23, 2010 Advice for CTO Founders: Dont Let Business Kill the Business Founding a technology company is an amazing thing. Too often, however, I have found CTO / Founders paired with business people who not only don't add value, but frequently detract from the value of the business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

A CEO who has “been there and done that” is traction, especially if teamed with a financial lead (CFO) and a product lead (CTO). A team of friends and family that work for free on weekends is not likely to impress investors, unless they ARE your investors. Build qualified advisory board. Register some intellectual property.

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Intellectual Property Entrepreneur Sweat Equity CTO Hire 281

Gust

APRIL 20, 2014

It’s your startup, so you can give early partners any title you want, but be aware of potential investor and peer implications. VCs and Angel investors like to see a startup that is running lean and mean, with no more than three or four of the conventional C-level or VP titles. Image via Wikimedia Commons.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2010

It’s your startup, so you can give early partners any title you want, but be aware of potential investor and peer implications. VCs and angel investors like to see a startup that is running lean and mean, with no more than three or four of the conventional C-level or VP titles.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2012

A CEO who has “been there and done that” is traction, especially if teamed with a financial lead (CFO) and a product lead (CTO). A team of friends and family that work for free on weekends is not likely to impress investors, unless they ARE your investors. Build qualified advisory board. Register some intellectual property.

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Intellectual Property Sweat Equity CTO Hire Fractional CTO 260

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 3, 2015

by Tom Britton, co-founder & CTO at SyndicateRoom.com. Your first investors can be your most valuable assets so when looking to raise finance you should always look beyond the capital to what else the angel can bring to your business. If you wouldn’t be comfortable with that, then they may not be the investor for you.

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Angel Investor Early Stage Due Diligence Cofounder 100

Up and Running

MARCH 27, 2015

In the business world, angel investors are sometimes equated with actual angels, sent to help us fund what could not otherwise be funded. These guardian angels of innovation are responsible for bringing many new ideas to life. See Also How to Impress Angel Investors. Venture Hacks. On Startups.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 1, 2010

Do I Need a Co-Founder: The 90/50 Rule of Startup Founders - FairSoftware's Blog , February 1, 2010 Another post that relates to my recent post on CTO Founders and Cofounders. They now have a cool new way to get intros to these angels: StartupList.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2011

A CEO who has “been there and done that” is traction, especially if teamed with a financial lead (CFO) and a product lead (CTO). A team of friends and family that work for free on weekends is not likely to impress investors, unless they ARE your investors. Build qualified advisory board. Register some intellectual property.

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Intellectual Property Sweat Equity CTO Hire Fractional CTO 253

View from Seed

MAY 11, 2016

A few years ago, a friend of mine who was coming off an EIR gig at a well-known venture fund in Boston ended up joining one of my portfolio companies part-time as a technical advisor / interim CTO. In either case, sometimes solving other people’s problems (as a team member, advisor, angel investor, etc.)

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Founder Cofounder CTO Hire Early Stage 159

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

But the thing I am most proud of about Rob is that he has taken a company with a uniquely talented founder & CTO – Nick Halstead – and managed to build a very tight working relationship with Nick where we drive world-class product development without having the usual founder / CEO conflicts.

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Advisory Board CTO Hire Fractional CTO Los Angeles 365

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2010

A CEO who has “been there and done that” is traction, especially if teamed with a financial lead (CIO) and a product lead (CTO). A team of friends and family that work for free on weekends is not likely to impress investors, unless they are your investors. Build qualified advisory board. Register some intellectual property.

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Intellectual Property Sweat Equity CTO Hire Fractional CTO 222

Austin Startup

JULY 28, 2017

Sincerely, Gene Austin CEO, Bazaarvoice in Austin Joshua Baer Executive Director, Capital Factory in Austin Tom Ball General Partner, Next Coast Ventures in Austin John Berkowitz CEO, Ojo Labs in Austin Bill Blackstone General Manager, Galvanize in Austin Trey Bowles Executive Director, The Dallas Entrepreneurship Center in Dallas Sara Brand General (..)

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 28, 2015

Tim Miller (CEO) and Ryan Martens (CTO, founder) have been working together from the start of the journey. Jim Lejeal, the CFO, was an original angel investor, then board member, and then CFO joining full time when the company was around 200 people.

Software 70

Software Technology Agile SCRUM 70

Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

link] – Not a meetup, but a great mentorship program started by serial CTO Sean Lindsay. Andy Payne – OpenMarket, Fansnap, angel investor ( blog , @payne92 ). Bill Warner – Avid, Techstars, Angel investor ( blog , @billwarner ). Dharmesh Shah – Co-founder and CTO, HubSpot ( blog , @dharmesh ).

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

At this year’s FUND Conference in Chicago, Illinois, over 100 startups presented their early-stage companies in front of hundreds of investors and industry leaders. FUND is a national connector of entrepreneurs, VCs, angel investors, and industry experts with a focus on deal flow and making connections. Sounds like a great team.

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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

Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

link] – Not a meetup, but a great mentorship program started by serial CTO Sean Lindsay. Bill Warner – Avid, Techstars, Angel investor (@billwarner). Dharmesh Shah – Co-founder and CTO, HubSpot ( blog , @dharmesh). No agenda, just come by and talk tech at Voltage. Rob May – Backupify ( blog , @robmay).

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Boston Technical Review Community Cofounder 71

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

In December, he and I successfully participated in a pitch night for Dubai Angel Investors, netting a $75,000 commitment. Our CTO and Co-founder Majd Chaaya and colleague Hella Bennani are representing us there at the end of January.

Africa 48

Africa Kenya Startup CTO Hire 48

David Cohen

NOVEMBER 8, 2014

He’s currently CTO of Avenir International , a provider of telecom software for hospitals. How David and I built a successful company without knowing what a venture capitalist or an angel investor was. How I became an angel investor by acting like an angel investor. Now he has interviewed me.

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 26, 2014

I have no doubt he will, for he is a true “Startup CEO”, even though his title is CTO at Acquia. Angel Investor Drupal founder PHP Revenue Growth SaaS Scalability startup startup CEO venture Cash Flow CEOing leadership scalability tom nora venture capital' more info on the funding round from @thewhir [link].

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 17, 2019

As an investor in artificial intelligence technology, I face the unknown by placing bets on small startups doing big work. I used to be founder and CTO of a machine learning company, so the deck is stacked in my favor here. You want to maximize your chances at success. There’s nothing artificial about that kind of intelligence.

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Artificial Inteligence Networking Angel Investor Global 148

www.scottporad.com

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

In addition, I would seek out angel investors and VCs in Philly. In fact, that’s exactly how I ended up at Cheezburger—a friend of a friend introduced me to one of the angels who had invested, who then introduced me to the founder (who needed a CTO). and Failblog.org.

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Fractional CTO Developer Philadelphia Seattle 40

Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Bush and Park remembered the advice one of their early angel investors had given them: "Get close enough to your customer to understand what they really want. It turned out, the physician practices loved the software, but didn't love the practice management services.

Fractional CTO 43

Fractional CTO Cofounder Cleveland Vertical 43

VC Cafe

AUGUST 3, 2011

Yair Goldfinger, co-founder and CTO of Dotomi and a prominent Israeli angel investor, founded Dotomi back in 2000, following the acquisition of ICQ by AOL. It raised $17 million in funding since inception from Globespan Capital, US Venture Partners, Investor Capital and Velocity.

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Angel Investor Chicago Retention Cofounder 87

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

” examined over 20,000 VC-backed companies and found that women’s positions have primarily been in sales and marketing, rather than more “heavy-hitting” roles like chief technology officer and so on.

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Venture Capital Lean Cofounder Technical Review 82

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 15, 2010

I spoke about the need of the CEO, CTO and head of Products to be in the same location. Can you please explain convertible debt and specifically how it pertains to angel deals? Think of it – why should an angel fund you to allow you to create more value so that they have to pay a higher price at a later date?

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Southern California Venture Capital Seed Stage Angel Investor 210

Feld Thoughts

MARCH 20, 2019

Since then, I’ve been a founder of a number of companies, a CTO of a public company that acquired my first company, an angel investor, a VC in two different firms that I helped start, and an LP in a bunch of VC firms.

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LP Angel Investor Cofounder Leadership 108

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

For example, one angel investor reportedly invested in several hundred social networking ventures employing this philosophy. That being said, I do see problems with the conventional wisdom especially in the valley with your technical vision, which then creates economic problems.

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Lean San Francisco Startup Continuous Deployment 168

The Next Web

DECEMBER 31, 2013

Dries Buytaert is the co-founder and CTO and Acquia , a venture-backed software company that offers products and services for open source content management system Drupal. Without a vibrant exit market, it’s harder to attract both entrepreneurs and investors.

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Europe Government Silicon Valley United States 149

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 1, 2014

So today I’m excited to announce that Upfront Ventures is leading an $8 million round with some amazing co-investors including Founder’s Fund, OATV, Lowercase, High Peaks, Collaborative Fund and many great angel investors. I wrote about that experience here without giving away the details of the business.

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Technical Review Software Review Cofounder CTO Hire 380

SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

Some great content around the intersection of startups and being a Startup CTO in June this year. This continues my series of posts: Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March There was some really great content in June. It sounds like Angel Boot Camp rocked.

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Cofounder Technical Cofounder Startup Term Sheet 175

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Because I was the Acting CTO for eHarmony at it's start, I quite often get introduced to people who have an idea for a startup company that is based on some kind of matching algorithm. Margin in Mystery An Angel investor that used to be on a startup CEO roundtable with me, always had a lot of great phrases that would help startups.

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Algorithm Matching Los Angeles Angel Investor 196

This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 1, 2010

In terms of who is here and what does get funded, the average entrepreneur spends way too much time doing after investors that have a shingle on their door that says angel investor or VC. Maybe you meet a CTO who is tired of working with ad agencies. Do you have a Bose radio at home?

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New York City New York Startup Burn Rate 113

SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2011

This site aggregates and filters content from thought leaders who talk about topics such as Marketing , Sales , Design , Revenue , Hiring , Social Media , Business Models , Metrics , PR , Venture Capital , Angel Investors , Bootstrapping , Incubators , Agile and many others.

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Intellectual Property Aggregator Startup IP 175

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. In fact, most investors “require” that you already have some investment from friends and family before they will even step up to the plate.

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