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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. The most common ones I see and salute are CEO, CFO, and CTO. If your business is managing contracts and patents, it makes sense, but the CLO for most startups is LegalZoom on the Internet.

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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. The most common ones I see and salute are CEO, CFO, and CTO. If your business is managing contracts and patents, it makes sense, but the CLO for most startups is LegalZoom on the Internet.

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Stories of Opportunity from the First Round Capital Key Hire Wire – VP of Sales, CTO, VP of Engineering

This is going to be BIG.

A week or so ago, we launched the Key Hire Wire at First Round. You will initially spend majority of time personally working with individual accounts and coaching sales team. CTO, Modcloth – San Francisco, CA (corrected from e-mail version) Remember that girl from back home? How do you like them apples?

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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. The most common ones I see and salute are CEO, CFO, and CTO. If your business is managing contracts and patents, it makes sense, but the CLO for most startups is LegalZoom on the Internet.

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Ten Executive Titles You Don’t Want in a 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. The most common ones I see and salute are CEO, CFO, and CTO. Assigning them the title of CIO seems like a bit of overkill, especially these days of serious “cloud” computing. Chief Legal Officer.

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boldstart 2018 recap and what’s hot in enterprise 2019

BeyondVC

We had another solid year filled with learning, growth, laughter, and new projects and partners. Thanks to all of the amazing founders, advisors, co-investors, corporate partners, and others that helped make 2018 an amazing year. will be a great fit with the Salesforce marketing cloud. We are truly grateful for your support.

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Cyber Security At The Start

YoungUpstarts

This way, employees, partners, and board members will all be on the same level with the understanding that information security plays a major role in the success of a company. Add multi-factor authentication to SasS applications and cloud environments. Bring on a security-conscious CTO at the beginning.

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