YoungUpstarts

MAY 30, 2019

In 2013, I left a CTO job overseeing a 50-person product engineering team for the same job at a four-person startup. Upon arrival, I incorporated a few elements from my previous stop into this new endeavor, including a battle-tested Agile Scrum process and the corresponding technology. Maintain User-Centricity in Product Management.

Management 138

Management Product SCRUM Early Stage 138

Genuine VC

DECEMBER 3, 2014

The benefits have been touted previously : an anchor for attracting and retaining talent in Boston, as well as a breeding ground for the next set of great Boston entrepreneurs and founders. The post The Unique but Powerful Way the HubSpot Mafia is Impacting Boston Startups appeared first on GenuineVC.'

Boston 279

Boston IPO B2B Cofounder 279

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2018

Last time we met I didn’t have my CTO with me. Would it be alright if I brought her by your offices for a super quick coffee?” Would it be alright if I brought her by your offices for a super quick coffee?” (In New York, Chicago, Boston, etc. I worked on a new model and I’d really love to show it to you in person.

Software Review 381

Software Review Churn Rate Due Diligence New York 381

View from Seed

JULY 31, 2014

Lastly, given our Boston location, it isn’t surprising that seven investments were Boston-based. We’ve been remarkably consistent on this dimension as well: five of the recent 13 investments were B2C, five were B2B, and three you could categorize as B2B2C.

Seed Stage 272

Seed Stage B2C Technical Review Disintermediation 272

View from Seed

JULY 24, 2015

On Tuesday, July 21, we hosted the first-ever Boston Consumer Tech Summit. But a large majority of our investments are in our backyard of Boston — and, aside from our work as investors, this city is near and dear to our hearts. Here’s Mike’s comment: Boston’s B2C problem is one of values.

Boston 120

Boston Cofounder B2C PR 120

View from Seed

JULY 5, 2016

In this episode, NextView’s Rob Go talks with Yoav Shapira, a longtime tech leader in the Boston startup community. Yoav was first employee at CarGurus, a founding executive of HubSpot, CTO at Happier, CTO at Jana, and more. Today, he shares the evolution of what it means to lead a startup from the technical side.

Boston 120

Boston Startup Community Employee 120

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

For example, in the case of one recent company that we’ve been working with for the last 7 months, we have sourced half of the new team members for the company, including their CTO, head of marketing, head of customer success, and a talented senior engineer.

North America 120

North America Seed Stage Early Stage Lead Investor 120

David Cohen

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

I just got back to Boulder from an amazing week in Boston and I wanted to reflect on it while it is fresh in my mind. This year we had 220 alumni founders in Boston for the annual gathering, which culminated in a demo day with entrepreneurs from the Boston TechStars program. Here I am interviewing Fake Grimlock.

Boston 82

Boston Cofounder Software Engineering Acquisition 82

View from Seed

MARCH 22, 2016

And don’t pitch a Boston newspaper on your San Francisco startup. A publication whose readers are in Boston will want to know you’re based here in Cambridge. You have a new hire (if they’re not the CEO or CTO, reporters probably won’t care). Don’t pitch the real estate reporter on an app that has nothing to with housing.

Seed Stage 120

Seed Stage San Francisco Startup CTO Hire 120

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 21, 2016

Bring on a security-conscious CTO at the beginning. Andrew Ostashen is co-founder of Vulsec , a Boston-based firm established to provide clients with the highest methodologies in data protection by delivering versatile tactics to safeguard information technology departments from hackers.

Security 100

Security Intellectual Property CTO Hire Offshore 100

Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

I worked throughout different areas in Cybersecurity/Identity and Access Management and in 2013 I took the big step and moved to the Boston area. About Dino Pietropaolo Dino Pietropaolo is currently Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder of Good Dog Labs, a Lighthouse Company.

Texas 48

Texas Fractional CTO Cofounder Austin 48

Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

For an awesome description of Startup America, please read Aneesh Chopra’s (the United States CTO) post on TechCrunch titled Startup America: A Campaign To Celebrate, Inspire And Accelerate Entrepreneurship. By the way, I think it is awesomely cool that the CTO of the United States blogs on TechCrunch!

America 149

America Fractional CTO Startup United States 149

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. A couple suggestions: #1: Try solving other people’s problems.

Founder 159

Founder Cofounder CTO Hire Early Stage 159

SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Continuing my series of posts that I’ve been collecting that live at the intersection of Startups and being a Startup CTO : Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March here are the top posts from May 2010. Kayak is great Boston-area success story. Lots to learn from him.

Fractional CTO 248

Fractional CTO Startup Venture Capital Cofounder 248

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

(Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. Your "startup-lessons-learned" are very valuable. Would love to get in touch. January 2, 2009 8:57 AM Abbas said.

San Francisco 155

San Francisco Technical Cofounder Fractional CTO CTO 155

Altgate

JULY 14, 2009

The company leverages proprietary technology developed commercially and through NIH grants over the past decade to bring a unique solution connecting hospitals to the drug and diagnostic discovery programs within life science companies. The position is based in Boston, MA. Check out the full description below. Bookmark the permalink.

Boston 31

Boston Venture Capital Technology Programming 31

Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

Kayak was started here in my backyard of Boston… co-founder & CTO Paul English and the product/engineering team is based here in Concord MA. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. I’m pleased to now turn to Kayak’s S-1 filing. Author howerl. Read More ».

Pre-Money Valuation 113

Pre-Money Valuation Liquidation Preference Dividend Common Stock 113

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. In this case, figure out the technology platform you’re likely to use and go where the users gather.

Technical Review 40

Technical Review Fractional CTO Partner CTO Hire 40

Rob Go

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

For example: - Having any more “C’s” than the CEO and CTO. Earlier today, I stumbled upon the team page of a seed funded startup in Boston, and saw 7 VP-level and higher people NOT including the CEO. Aside from the CEO and CTO, you see almost no other titles, just descriptors of what people actually do.

CTO Hire 61

CTO Hire Seed Stage Startup Early Stage 61

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Wednesday, September 21 - Boston A big event at Harvard Business School, where I'm returning this year as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence. Mostly, I'll be doing media and interviews, followed by a reception at IDEO. Never fear, I'll be back in a big way in October, centered around the Web 2.0 This is event is free and open to the public.

Lean 155

Lean Seattle Los Angeles San Francisco 155

Altgate

JUNE 1, 2009

  I have a few hundred feeds that I follow in Google Reader and the way that I find new ones is a random process of discovery so Larry's post was great in that he not only provided a rank-ordered list but also a convenient way to mass subscribe. Bookmark the permalink.

Cofounder 59

Cofounder Entrepreneur Technical Review Venture Capital 59

www.entrepreneur.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

First-time entrepreneurs often think "If I approach a VC with a chief technology officer or chief prototype designer in place, then I'm more likely to get funded." Coming soon to Dallas, Boston and Philadelphia. A Startup Airline Takes Flight in a Tough Economy. More Video » Entrepreneur Events.

Sweat Equity 55

Sweat Equity Equity Fractional CTO CTO 55

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

He and his wife Gwen would found the Computer Museum, first in the lobby of DEC headquarters, then in Boston (and now as the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.) My first inkling that computing had a history (with deep military connections) was looking at the SAGE air defense computer at the Boston Computer Museum.

North Carolina 125

North Carolina Silicon Valley Fractional VPE Part-Time VPE 125

Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

For example, in the case of one recent company that we’ve been working with for the last 7 months, we have sourced half of the new team members for the company, including their CTO, head of marketing, head of customer success, and a talented senior engineer.

North America 36

North America Seed Stage Early Stage Lead Investor 36

crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

Obama CTO Harper Reed on Keeping Sane in a High-Pressure Environment – [link]. A 3-D Printing Pen Wows Kickstarter | MIT Technology Review – [link]. The Boston Globe – [link]. Valuable insight on product management & UX … An interview with Ryan Singer | Inside Intercom – [link].

Social Media 105

Social Media Small Business CTO Hire Design 105

Genuine VC

JANUARY 29, 2008

And the CTO James McElhiney is also a seasoned entrepreneur (cofounder of Boston Compliance Systems, which he later sold to Thomson Financial), bringing over 20 years of large-scale development expertise to the company.

Technical Cofounder 101

Technical Cofounder Cofounder Angel Investor 101

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

Hire a CTO or VP Engineering. A really good technology executive can notice problems like the ones Im talking about today and address them proactively. The trick is to hire a good one - I wrote a little about this in What does a startup CTO actually do? I would love to have an effective CTO or VP of Engineering to manage me.

Software Review 94

Software Review Technical Review Part-Time VPE San Francisco 94

Genuine VC

JANUARY 29, 2008

And the CTO James McElhiney is also a seasoned entrepreneur (cofounder of Boston Compliance Systems, which he later sold to Thomson Financial), bringing over 20 years of large-scale development expertise to the company.

Technical Cofounder 100

Technical Cofounder Cofounder Angel Investor 100

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Expo New York New York, NY Nov 19 The Lean Startup at MIT Boston, MA Nov 20 Lunch workshop at Dogpatch Labs Boston, MA Dec 17 Lean Startup Cohort program begins San Francisco, CA KISSmetrics KISSmetrics is loading. Take a look and let me know what you think. Amazon PostRank

San Francisco 94

San Francisco Continuous Deployment Agile Lean 94

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2010

“Everybody felt the burden of supporting all those transactions every day,&# says Pascal-Louis Perez, kaChing’s CTO. “Everybody felt the burden of supporting all those transactions every day,&# says Pascal-Louis Perez, kaChing’s CTO. That all-hands lasted five minutes. Which is a nice story. says Rachleff.

San Francisco 158

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment SEC 158

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Expo New York New York, NY Nov 19 The Lean Startup at MIT Boston, MA Nov 20 Lunch workshop at Dogpatch Labs Boston, MA Dec 17 Lean Startup Cohort program begins San Francisco, CA KISSmetrics KISSmetrics is loading. Take a look and let me know what you think. Amazon PostRank

Lean 168

Lean San Francisco Startup Continuous Deployment 168

The Next Web

JANUARY 24, 2014

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). Think of Stanford and Sandhill road in Silicon Valley, Route 128 in Boston or IIT in Bangalore India. So we have plenty of economic clustering.

Netherlands 143

Netherlands Technical Review Stock Silicon Valley 143

View from Seed

MARCH 3, 2015

Ellie Mirman was the first marketer hired by the CMO of HubSpot, the Boston-based marketing software startup that IPOed in 2014. Initially, we promoted it to a list that we’d already developed through Website Grader, the free app our CTO Dharmesh Shah had built before we even had a product.

Marketing 120

Marketing Sales Cycle Startup CTO Hire 120

www.collegemogul.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

For additional advice, I recommend reading " Finding a Technical Partner for your Startup ), by Daniel Kehoe, a CTO Consultant, who was kind enough to hear my struggles out and offered advice suggesting that we should supplement our current Advisory Board with a Technical Advisor.

Technical Review 40

Technical Review Web Development Web Developer 40

Seeing Both Sides

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Scott Kirsner of The Boston Globe called them the startup equivalent of the Justice League of America. Paul English, CTO/cofounder of Kayak ($200m revenue, S-1 filed). I guess others are noticing that you can scale great companies in Boston nowadays! . Scott Griffith, CEO ZipCar (2010 IPO). Scott Griffith, CEO ZipCar (2010 IPO).

Technical Cofounder 45

Technical Cofounder Cofounder IPO Boston 45

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Expo New York New York, NY Nov 19 The Lean Startup at MIT Boston, MA Nov 20 Lunch workshop at Dogpatch Labs Boston, MA Dec 17 Lean Startup Cohort program begins San Francisco, CA KISSmetrics KISSmetrics is loading. Take a look and let me know what you think. Amazon PostRank

Software Review 68

Software Review San Francisco Technical Review Continuous Deployment 68

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Expo New York New York, NY Nov 19 The Lean Startup at MIT Boston, MA Nov 20 Lunch workshop at Dogpatch Labs Boston, MA Dec 17 Lean Startup Cohort program begins San Francisco, CA KISSmetrics KISSmetrics is loading. Take a look and let me know what you think. Amazon PostRank

San Francisco 167

San Francisco CPA SEM CTO Hire 167