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10 C-Level Positions That Are Red Flags For Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

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 Legal Officer.

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10 Job Titles Never Found in an Investable Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

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 Legal Officer.

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10 C-Level Positions That Are Red Flags For Funding

Gust

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 Legal Officer.

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How do I find a developer to help me with my idea?

www.scottporad.com

Mike, a entrepreneur from Philadelphia, wrote to me with a brief summary of a new business idea he’s working on, and then posed three questions to me about finding a programmer to help him develop the idea. In addition, I would seek out angel investors and VCs in Philly. see a pattern? . - and Failblog.org.

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Top 57 Online Startups Meets Technology Meets Product Posts for November 2010

SoCal CTO

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. love to find great products and services made by entrepreneurs who are trying to change the world. How to Take Down Facebook -- Hint: It Ain't Twitter.

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Finding Technical Cofounders Is Hard

rob.by

If a software geek really wants to try building something for no pay, they’re going to work for themself instead of following another cashless entrepreneur. They can make good money consulting or working as an employee of another company. There are three double standards here. I refused and he left. Good riddance.

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Why Startups Fail - 20 Top Reasons Gleaned from 32 Startup Failure Post-Mortems

www.chubbybrain.com

We’d previously highlighted the top startup failure post-mortems of all-time here (32 in total) written by a group of startup entrepreneurs gracious enough to share their lessons learned from their startup’s failure. In the post-mortem of Kiko, Mahesh Piddshetti writes : Most entrepreneurs have lots of ideas.