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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

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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. Tesla is not. It's a great talk. Lots to learn from him.

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Should You Share Equity with Consultants?

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Should You Share Equity with Consultants? Science and Technology Technology. Back in 1997, Randy Parker was staring at a blank whiteboard, wondering where hed find the money to hire the employees and consultants he needed to build his new product. "We The 2011 Inc. 500|5000 List. The 2011 Top Lists. 500|5000 Conference.

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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

(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. He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996).

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Ardent 1: Supercomputers Get Personal

Steve Blank

A Phone Call After I left MIPS Computers I was in New York tagging along with a friend (a computer architect whose products at Apple a decade later would change the shape of personal computing) who was consulting for a voice recognition startup. Wasn’t he a CTO or something? (He They would all work in this one company.

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What is Sweat Equity Worth?

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How should you decide if your prototype designer should be a co-founder who deserves 50 percent of your company or deserves $30,000 in sweat equity for her work as an employee or consultant? Million in Venture Capital. Coming soon to Dallas, Boston and Philadelphia. How Daisy Cakes Reeled in a Shark. 0 Comments.

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