The Next Web

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Hire everyone you need as an employee. After being part of a team of five that co-founded a fairly successful company and still have the original team together after half a decade, here’s what I learned about having cofounders. The required number of cofounders for success is: “Zero” – You don’t need a cofounder. Sometimes I’m wrong.

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Cofounder Technical Cofounder Kenya Dilution 143

View from Seed

MARCH 22, 2016

Although bootstrapping your startup is difficult, that in and of itself is not unique. You have a new hire (if they’re not the CEO or CTO, reporters probably won’t care). As with No. 2, this requires a certain amount of honesty and comfort with vulnerability. The thing is, reporters respond to that because readers respond to it.

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Seed Stage San Francisco Startup CTO Hire 120

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. Or you can find seed-stage investors who will give you the money to hire a developer. You have two avenues open to you.

Technical Review 40

Technical Review Fractional CTO Partner CTO Hire 40

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

What key hires do you need? The business model for residential solar panel company: contract with customer, local rebates, and tax benefits. Presenters: Sarah Allen (Co-Founder & CTO, Mightyverse) and Paul Lundahl (Creative Director, Mightyverse). Some good investor questions: What is your barrier to entry?

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CTO Hire Cofounder Fractional CTO San Francisco 49

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

What key hires do you need? The business model for residential solar panel company: contract with customer, local rebates, and tax benefits. Presenters: Sarah Allen (Co-Founder & CTO, Mightyverse) and Paul Lundahl (Creative Director, Mightyverse). Some good investor questions: What is your barrier to entry?

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CTO Hire Cofounder Fractional CTO San Francisco 40

This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 1, 2010

Content companies, for example, should be able to amass traffic and sell advertising on a bootstrapped budget before they come close to seeking equity financing—because you can, and because that’s the market expectation and that’s what your competitors are already doing. That’s why recruiters make so much coin.

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New York City New York Startup Burn Rate 113

www.collegemogul.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

When you’re on a bootstrap budget, anything is tough, but this turned out to be especially taxing. On a bootstrapped budget free is great. We spent a lot of time asking everyone we knew if they knew anyone who would be looking to intern with a startup. It turned out to be a terrible decision.

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Technical Review Web Development Web Developer 40

Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 14, 2017

He started Stackify to solve the biggest challenge he had as the CTO of VinSolutions, so Matt, thanks for joining me. I was that hired gun in some senses. He’s been a developer/hacker for over 15 years, and he sold his first startup, VinSolutions for $150 million. We’re going to ask him exactly how he did that. Absolutely.

Kansas City 40

Kansas City CTO Hire Las Vegas Software Developers 40

www.entrepreneur.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Human Resources Play Video Shark Tanks Barbara Corcoran on Bootstrapping a Growing a Business (Video). However, your partner could just as easily have argued that her sweat equity is worth $250,000 since that's what a prototype would have cost you to make had you hired a prototype development firm. Play Video. Play Video.

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Sweat Equity Equity Fractional CTO CTO 55

Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

If you don’t yet have a team yet, list the roles you need to hire for. If you don’t yet have a team yet, list the roles you need to hire for. You could bootstrap your startup and do most of the tough legwork on your own, perhaps while you hold down another job. The business model. Domain Names and Trademark Law.

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Software Review Software Delaware Forecast 74

www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Smart teams understand quickly that all three skills are essential - if you can't recognize the need, you won't be able to hire for it or value it. Add Comment • Jan 10, 2011 View All 2 Comments Cannot add comment at this time. Spencer Fry , Founder of two bootstrapped companies. The former focussed on biz.

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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

blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Eventually I was able to scrape up a few bucks and hired Sarah to build me a website prototype. Eventually Ill hire a software geek of my own, but right now Im doing just fine without one. Also hire offshore devs to assist you in building your product. I crawled my way back and have largely been able to bootstrap the business.

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Cofounder Technical Cofounder Founder Software Engineering 40

Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 10, 2017

We have been in business as ONTRAPORT for 11 years, coming up on 12 here and yeah, growing very well, profitable, have been profitable for almost all of our history since 2009 with one year exception and growing bootstrap basically. We grow the business out of our own revenue the old-fashion way which has been challenging but wonderful also.

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Software Review CTO Hire Fractional CTO Software 36

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Inevitably, the excuses begin: I need to hire people to build the product. In later posts I’m going to get into more detail on specific topics like hiring, raising money, what types of ideas have the potential to get big, finding your founders, and the like. Like I said, forget everything else and just get your product out the door.

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Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

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. Every time I see my graduate students try to teach for the first time, it’s usually so painful I bite my lip. The Dry Run.

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Startup CTO Hire Cofounder Venture Capital 191