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. Chief Sales Officer (VP Sales).

CTO Hire 171

CTO Hire Fractional CTO Angel Investor Public Relations 171

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. Chief Sales Officer (VP Sales).

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CTO Hire Fractional CTO Startup Angel Investor 227

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

He wrote a post this long weekend on how he manages the board of DataSift. Spend time building investor relationship long before you raise money. . 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.

Advisory Board 365

Advisory Board CTO Hire Fractional CTO Los Angeles 365

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.

CTO Hire 40

CTO Hire Founder Cap Table Vesting 40

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. It’s a weekly email we send to AngelList, with 3 high-quality startups who want intros.

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Acquisition Cofounder Technical Cofounder Cost 150

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

View from Seed

MAY 11, 2016

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.

Founder 159

Founder Cofounder CTO Hire Early Stage 159

Feld Thoughts

MAY 28, 2015

I remember my friend Ryan Martens sitting down with me and Chris Wand around 2001 and walking us through his idea for changing the how he approached managing the software development process. Ryan had a vision for an integration web-based system to layer on top of all of this to help support and manage the software development process.

Software 70

Software Technology Agile SCRUM 70

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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Dallas Houston Texas Austin 48

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.

Chicago 147

Chicago Illinois New York City Cofounder 147

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.

Fractional CTO 42

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. Belmont Technologies – CAD in the Cloud (backed by Northbridge and NEA). BitSight - Risk Management (backed by Flybridge and Menlo). VM Turbo – Virtualization Management (backed by Bain, Highland).

Boston 71

Boston Technical Review Community Cofounder 71

YoungUpstarts

MAY 17, 2019

by Alex Bates, Managing Director at Neocortex Ventures. 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. Your network is your net worth.”.

Artificial Inteligence 171

Artificial Inteligence Networking Global Angel Investor 171

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

A finalist in Payment and FinTech Technology category, Pawame is lighting up rural communities in Africa with clean, affordable and reliable solar home systems. In December, he and I successfully participated in a pitch night for Dubai Angel Investors, netting a $75,000 commitment.

Africa 48

Africa Kenya Startup CTO Hire 48

Scalable Startup

AUGUST 26, 2014

The term Content Management System has become mainstream in everything from the Fortune 500 to small businesses. I have no doubt he will, for he is a true “Startup CEO”, even though his title is CTO at Acquia. The average website size has also greatly increased, aided by automated rendering systems like Drupal and others.

Founder 42

Founder Los Angeles PHP Open Source 42

Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

The theory is that with the advent of the cloud in the digital age, small businesses can leverage a suite of services from a technology vendor to manage all aspects of their work – from payments to record-keeping to marketing to customer communications. Their performance management system is very sophisticated.

Fractional CTO 43

Fractional CTO Cofounder Cleveland Vertical 43

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.

Fractional CTO 40

Fractional CTO Developer Philadelphia Seattle 40

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Whether they also lead to dramatically higher returns for investors is a question Im looking forward to studying. Very useful perspective - as a first-time CEO managing a small startup, these ideas are timely and thought-provoking. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Less is more.

Lean 168

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 Entrepreneur 149

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 1, 2014

The second is that the retailers were constrained by their high costs of local real estate and service staff relative to the costs of centralized warehouses where goods could be stacked high, sorted by robots, managed by RFIDs and then shipped via overnight to eager, cost-conscious customers across the US.

Technical Review 380

Technical Review Software Review Cofounder CTO Hire 380

The Next Web

DECEMBER 4, 2013

“I feel isolated without an office.”. Traditional office working is losing ground as the “best way” to work, and managers supporting it are either of a generation where using social technologies is seen as lazy or timewasting, or they have the wrong team – i.e. a team that requires intense scrutiny to keep it working. .

Management 152

Management SCRUM CTO Hire Distribution 152

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. So let’s be very specific: let’s assume your dream job is product manager at Google, working on the Analytics product. But I don’t think so. Where is it?

Technical Review 175

Technical Review Technology Product CTO Hire 175

Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

I had dinner recently with a former colleague and good friend, let’s call him Al, who has recently transitioned from CTO to CEO of an early stage company he founded; he’s struggling with every aspect of his new job. Emotionally it’s very hard for a founder to “let go” and trust an outsider to care as much as he/she does about their baby.

Early Stage 20

Early Stage Technical Review Software Review Founder 20

Gust

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Individual accredited investors in typical angel deals put personal capital at risk for an equity share of growth-oriented, start-up companies. These angel investors generally invest $25,000 to $100,000 in a round totaling $250,000 to $1,000,000. A local network of angels is critical to achieving a diversified portfolio.

Valuation 146

Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Intellectual Property Technical Review 146

rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

As a tech co-founder, I tend to approach getting involved in new ventures now very much as an angel investor would, and ask the following set of questions: 1. If you are a business type with an idea requiring a software implementation, here is the key question need to ask: Do I have the technical skill to manage a software project? -

Technical Cofounder 42

Technical Cofounder Cofounder Software Engineering Fractional CTO 42

The Next Web

JANUARY 24, 2014

To put it into management speak, our digital infrastructure is world-class. 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). A top-notch infrastructure.

Netherlands 143

Netherlands Technical Review Stock Silicon Valley 143

rapidrollout.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Web Startup Lessons Advice from a CTO and Entrepreneur Home About Finding a Technical Partner for Your Startup Today I received an inquiry from a student at an Ivy League university who wants to launch a web startup. I have a related dilemma. I have an interesting project idea, but it requires seasoned programming skills.

Technical Review 40

Technical Review Fractional CTO Partner CTO Hire 40

Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

I used a freelance web designer and I only created the core functions to create, send, and manage invoices. You could also go for a larger sum of capital right from the start by pitching an angel investor or a venture capitalist for funding. 11 Angel Investor Blogs You Should Be Reading. Funding Guide.

Software Review 74

Software Review Software Delaware Forecast 74

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

“This event has helped raise their (the startups’) profiles and has given them some great exposure in the investor and startup communities.” “Asia doesn’t lack for excellent tech startups,” concluded founder of Penn Olson Willis Wee.

Asia 164

Asia Taiwan Singapore Malaysia 164

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Investors and founders did not see eye to eye on what was best for the company, and eventually investors began to run the company per this account of failure. Failure post-mortems often lamented that “I wish we had a CTO from the start, or wished that the startup had “a founder that loved the business aspect of things”.

Cofounder 89

Cofounder Startup Technical Cofounder CTO Hire 89

mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

The group seeks out technologies that are complementary to the company’s core operations, including applications, software and infrastructure startups. Brad Feld: Feld is co-founder and managing director of Foundry Group, a Boulder, Colorado venture capital firm that focuses on early stage investments ranging from $250,000 to $500,000.

Angel Investor 80

Angel Investor Startup San Francisco Social Media 80

Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

Austin Diversity Evangelists Mellie Price Director of Diversity Capital Factory Managing Director, Health CoLab Dell Medical School Mellie Price is a successful entrepreneur, angel investor, venture capitalist, and now university commercialization disruption at the Dell Medical School at the University of Texas.

Technical Cofounder 48

Technical Cofounder Cofounder Fractional CTO CTO 48

Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2015

Previously, Steve was CTO at Deluxe Entertainment , the provider of production, post-production and distribution services to the movie and TV industry; and EVP and Chief Strategy and Technology Officer at Rovi , where he led the media company’s transition from physical technologies to e-commerce, connected home and subscription services.

Channel 120

Channel India Technical Cofounder Silicon Valley 120

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

So what ends up happening is great programmers are led sheepishly into the arms of suggestive Angel Investors, VC’s or mentor hybrids like yourself who guide the product into what they’d like to see. Maybe you can be the project manager and team up with someone else who is a prgrammer. have a great day!

Technical Review 84

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

David Teten

MARCH 3, 2016

Caspar von Winterfeldt , Managing Partner at Baron VR, Mr. Anthony Russo and Mr. Joseph V. Meron , CEO and Chairman, HyGIeaCare Inc, and Founder, Given Imaging Ltd, Mr. Sean O’Sullivan , Founder and Managing Partner, SOSV and Mr. Todd Makurath , CEO, Bullit.

DC 60

DC Miami Cofounder 60

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

And.NET’s languages (C#, IronPython, managed C++, etc.) The VAST majority of what you’re dealing with (HTTP, MIME, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, relational databases, page template, authentication, session management, caching, etc.) Do you manage to hire any programmers in the first place. are also reasonable and flexible.

Java 107

Java PHP Software Review Coder 107

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 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 30 Startup Posts in June 2010 Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March The following are the top items based on social signals.

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Software Review Startup Venture Capital Technical Review 217