YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 10, 2020
by Zain Jaffer, serial entrepreneur and the Founder and CEO of Zain Ventures. When it occurs, the consequences can be swift and devastating, wreaking potential havoc on a once steady stream of revenue. Conduct a post-action review. Assess both the short- and long-term financial impact. Here, transparency is key.
SoCal CTO
NOVEMBER 1, 2010
I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. And I tried to evaluate the idea and figure out: What did the founder really need here? Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? Did they really need a Startup CTO or Developer or both? Was it a case of needing Homework?
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The Next Web
MARCH 6, 2014
Here’s a problem I bet every non-technical founder has experienced: the communication gap between what the biz dev team wants and what the tech team thinks they want, and vice versa. It’s disruptive, and for founders, very frustrating to watch. You need to build trust between these teams. Phil Chen , Givit.
Startup Lessons Learned
FEBRUARY 20, 2009
Take the example of a design team prepping mock-ups for their development team. Give the dev team your very first sketches and let them get started. And over time, the development team may be able to start anticipating your needs. That frees up even more development resources, and so on.
ConversionXL
APRIL 28, 2020
In that unannounced meeting, Brett Hurt, our CEO and co-founder, laid it out for us. To do that, we built a demand funnel that took us from nothing to 44X revenue growth in a single year. But such a simple funnel works only if you have a lot of inbound interest and a sales team focused on fielding inquiries.
View from Seed
MARCH 19, 2015
Founders laud their own “end-to-end” thinking. AS: After a co-founding a successful startup (Velogic, which raised $3 million in VC funding and received an acquisition offer for $100 million 18 months later), I thought, “Hey, startups are easy. Engineers and even marketers proudly claim to be “full stack.”
SoCal CTO
MARCH 22, 2007
We have been using LinkedIn for both sourcing recruits and reviewing backgrounds for recruits. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? Its been great to zero in on very specific skillsets. The level of resumes we get through our LinkedIn networks is top notch.
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