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Startup CTO Speaking

SoCal CTO

So, here goes: Dr. Tony Karrer Over the past 15 years, Tony has been a part-time CTO for more than 30 startups. Most notably, he was the original CTO for eHarmony for its first four years making him partly responsible for more than 4% of the marriages every year. Tony has a Ph.D. He is a frequent speaker at trade and industry events.

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One Startup’s Story: The Evolution Of An Outsourcing Strategy

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Guest author John Fearon is CEO of Dropmyemail.com , which backs up emails in the cloud and Dropmysite.com , a cloud-based backup company. As a one-man founder bootstrapping the business, this allowed me to hire a team for much less money. Contract Remote Teams On A Per Project Basis. Plus, with India being 2.5

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Analytics Career Advice: Job Titles, Salaries, Technical & Business Roles

Occam's Razor

Michael, politely, says in an email: "I have done web analytics for five years, I have mastered Omniture, WebTrends and Google Analytics, I provide analysis and not just reporting. I get many emails in the spirit of this one and thought it was about time I wrote a proper post about it. I feel like am an Analytics God.

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Technical Co-Founders Are A Myth

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Email This BlogThis! I crawled my way back and have largely been able to bootstrap the business. I was basically a consultant without the payment and I basically got taken advantage of. If you can't do that convincingly, go get investor money and hire a consultant. He reached out to me personally and said hello.

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Finding a Technical Partner for Your Startup

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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. And consultants who aren’t going to work for you for free.

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Transcript of An Entrepreneur’s Journey to Success

Duct Tape Marketing

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. It’s a lot of product and then just the basics, meetings and emails, man. We ignore the phone.

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How To Build a Web Development Team Without Technical Expertise

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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. Given we had no expertise in-house at the start of the summer, we outsourced a fairly sizable project to a small team of student developers. It turned out to be a terrible decision.